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Originally Posted by Professor S
So, you see a massive difference in the Dems saying the poor were going to die and the Repubs saying grandma and babies were going to die? Don't you think we're splitting hairs? Both are equally wrong. But only one lied to get a bill passed.
Also, try not to confuse conservative blowhards with Republican public servants. Palin/Limbaugh/etc. was never a part of this debate and their stupid comments shouldn't be considered. If you listened to the debate at the health care summit, the Republicans did not make any asinine statements about death panels or grandma dying, but the dems did talk about the poor dying. The republicans did talk about corruption and how the numbers don't add up, though, and still no one has really addressed either of those issues.
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But the public believes those people. When you say that the public didn't approve of the bill, don't you think it matters that they were incredibly misled by right-wing media? I don't deny that there has been misinformation on both sides, but right-wing media tends to make a far more sensational story out of theirs more often than not.
According to a recent poll:
- 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim
- 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president"
- 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"
- Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."