NYT columnist Frank Rich: Even if they are inflated by activist organizations and cable-TV overexposure, they still cannot be dismissed entirely as made-for-media phenomena made-to-measure to fill the August news vacuum. Nor are they necessarily about health care. The twisted distortions about “death panels” and federal conspiracies “to pull the plug on grandma” are just too unhinged from the reality of any actual legislation. These bogus fears are psychological proxies for bigger traumas.
This commercial would have been right up my alley.
ReplyDeleteNow my friend in Sacramento can't raffle off Nerf guns at the PTA bazaar, because she was told, "Can't have those, they have triggers and triggers kill".
Yeah right. I once killed a man with a foam dart.