Pavor Nocturnus wrote:
> On Mar 9, 3:16 pm, John Galt <kady...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Major Debacle wrote:
>>> The PHANTOM wrote:
>>>> On Mar 9, 1:07 pm, Major Debacle <major_deba...@invalid.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Dionysus wrote:
>>>>>> FROM THE CYPRESS TIMES
>>>>>> HEAD: SARAH PALIN TALKS CANADIAN HEALTH CARE, BAITS THE DRIVE-BY MEDIA, AND
>>>>>> THEY GET CAUGHT LYING!
>>>>>> PULL QUOTE: "There has not been one ridiculous story/rumor/gossip about
>>>>>> Palin and her family, starting with the 2008 campaign, that hasn’t been
>>>>>> found false."
>>>>>> If anyone thinks for one second that Sarah Palin is not a political genius,
>>>>>> well, they need to think again!
>>>>>> One thing we all know for sure is the democrat party and the media (yes,
>>>>>> yes, I know, same thing) hang on her ever word, every action. Sarah Palin
>>>>>> can walk out her front door and it makes headlines. Sarah is so far into
>>>>>> these people’s heads, she is living there rent free.
>>>>>> Better still, she knows it and is constantly using that to her advantage.
>>>>>> Take her State of the Union address at the national Tea Party convention
>>>>>> last month. She wrote three words on her hand, and ever since, people are
>>>>>> asking her about it, and giving her an opportunity to talk about national
>>>>>> security, energy independence, and the budget. Genius, pure genius.
>>>>>> We speculated, at the time, that it may have been on purpose. Whether it was
>>>>>> intentional or just Sarah being Sarah, we’ll never know, but one thing’s for
>>>>>> sure, the media took the bait!
>>>>>> This newest deal, of course, is even more delicious, because the left wing
>>>>>> media has already started caterwauling over the speech Sarah gave in Canada
>>>>>> this weekend. They are taking the bait here as well and, as usual, the
>>>>>> Obamacentric media gets it wrong.
>>>>>> The Washington Post, in it’s “44” blog, a blog that only exists to promote
>>>>>> Barack Obama and his policies, writes this:
>>>>>> Palin says her family went to Canada for health care when she was young
>>>>>> Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a fierce opponent of Democratic
>>>>>> health-care reform efforts who has said America under President Obama is
>>>>>> headed toward socialism, told a Canadian audience her family used to go to
>>>>>> Canada to get medical care when she was growing up.
>>>>>> “My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by
>>>>>> Whitehorse. Believe it or not — this was in the ’60s — we used to hustle on
>>>>>> over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I
>>>>>> remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing
>>>>>> and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and
>>>>>> I think, isn’t that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting
>>>>>> health care from Canada,” Palin said a speech Saturday night, according to
>>>>>> the Calgary Herald.
>>>>>> Palin spoke before a paying audience of 1,200 in Calgary, with tickets
>>>>>> costing between $150 and $200, the Medicine Hat News of Medicine Hat,
>>>>>> Alberta, reported.
>>>>>> Whitehorse, in the Yukon, Canada, is north of Skagway.
>>>>>> Palin has also told an alternate version of the story that had her family
>>>>>> traveling south by ferry to Juneau from Skagway for treatment of her brother’s
>>>>>> burned foot, rather than to Canada, according to a 2007 report posted by the
>>>>>> Skagway News.
>>>>>> Of course, the implication is that: “ooooh, Palin used ‘evil socialized
>>>>>> medicine’ herself, but wants to deny America of the same fine treatment.”
>>>>>> This storyline fails on many levels.
>>>>>> First of all, despite what WaPo and other dishonest media seek to portray,
>>>>>> Canada didn’t have socialized medicine in the 1960’s. Oh sure, some
>>>>>> provinces had experimented with it, Saskatchewan, for one, had some success
>>>>>> even. But Canada didn’t have a national health program.
>>>>>> Another far left wing website,  TPM is also caught up in the lie: "Canada’s
>>>>>> single-payer health care system, known as Medicare, was established in 1966.
>>>>>> Its principal founders were Tommy Douglas, leader of the social-democratic
>>>>>> New Democratic Party and former Premier of Saskatchewan, and Prime Minister
>>>>>> Lester B. Pearson of the Liberal Party. It had previously been implemented
>>>>>> at the provincial level in Saskatchewan in the early 1960s, under Douglas’s
>>>>>> leadership.
>>>>>> "At the time of Canadian Medicare’s passage, Palin was two years old."
>>>>>> You see, this is how the dishonest media works, they rely on the hope that
>>>>>> you, the reader, is stupid and/or lazy, and won’t do any investigating
>>>>>> themselves.
>>>>>> If nothing else, Sarah Palin’s very existence and the media’s reaction to
>>>>>> her, has shown us that we must fact check absolutely ever single story they
>>>>>> produce, because chances are good they got it wrong.
>>>>>> Here’s the truth: The establishment of the Medical Care Act of 1966 allowed
>>>>>> each province to set up their own “universal health care” programs, much
>>>>>> like the states are free in America to do whatever they want regarding this
>>>>>> sort of thing. The key word being 'allowed' (not 'required').
>>>>>> Of course, we know that universal care has been a disaster for every state
>>>>>> that has tried it in the United States. Think Massachusetts.
>>>>>> It wasn’t until the 1970’s that Canada had any sort of nationwide “universal
>>>>>> care” and it only covered in-hospital care. Doctor visits and other services
>>>>>> weren’t covered.
>>>>>> It wasn’t until the Health Care Act of 1984 that Canada had what has come to
>>>>>> be known as socialized medicine.
>>>>>> So Sarah and her family never “benefitted” from “socialized medicine.” On
>>>>>> the contrary, they received the same kind of quality care we enjoy here in
>>>>>> America.
>>>>>> Oh, and her brother’s treatment and the two “different” stories? Pretty
>>>>>> simple, the family sought emergency care in Whitehorse and the follow up
>>>>>> care was done in Alaska.
>>>>>> Once again, in their effort to smear Sarah Palin, the corrupt media proves
>>>>>> just how worthless and lazy they are. Or maybe they know the truth about
>>>>>> Canadian health care, but choose to lie about it to fool their mind numbed
>>>>>> readers.
>>>>>> Hard to tell.
>>>>>> One thing’s for sure, with the progressive movement going down in flames,
>>>>>> the media is grasping at absolutely anything to make it all stop.
>>>>>> Unfortunately, for them, it’s not going to!
>>>>>> As for Sarah, and all of this idiotic reporting, talk show host
>>>>>> extraordinaire Tammy Bruce, writing about the false rumor du jour, says it
>>>>>> best:
>>>>>> "Look, there has not been one ridiculous story/rumor/gossip about Palin and
>>>>>> her family, starting with the 2008 campaign, that hasn’t been found false.
>>>>>> So here’s the New Rule–if you hear something that sounds stupid, or
>>>>>> ridiculous or makes it sound like Sarah Palin has somehow lost her mind,
>>>>>> that’s your cue that it’s a false story, engineered to make it sound like,
>>>>>> uh, Palin has lost her mind."
>>>>>> All I can say is: Nice try media, keep carrying the progressive’s water. You
>>>>>> are making yourself more irrelevant every single day.
>>>>>> Meantime, Adrienne Ross reports that Sarah captivated the Canadian audience
>>>>>> and spoke for roughly 40 minutes, without notes. Read Adrienne’s report
>>>>>> here.
>>>>>> One last thing, it is this writer’s firm belief that when the history books
>>>>>> are written, Sarah Palin will be included as one of America’s greatest and
>>>>>> most influential leaders, but if Sarah does nothing more than continually
>>>>>> exposing what a bunch of crooked liars the so-called “mainstream media” is,
>>>>>> the lady will have provided a noble service to the nation.
>>>>>> ***********
>>>>>> Yup, lib loons and their willing accomplices in the media just keep getting
>>>>>> more and more stupid by the day...and Sarah plays them as well as anyone,
>>>>>> hehehe.
>>>>>> No surrender!
>>>>>> Dionysus
>>>>> Does this mean yew'll be running Sarah in 2012?
>>>>  Does this mean you'll stop posting lies about Palin using Canadian
>>>> healthcare??
>>> I wouldn't dream of posting lies about Palin using Canadian healthcare.
>>> I'll just kick back and enjoy watching Republicans squirm as Sarah
>>> finagles her way into the poll position fer the 2012 GOP nomination.
>> I think this highly unlikely (I doubt she's even considering running),
>> but it occurs to me that pretty much every time since Obama's election a
>> Dem partisan says "Oh, please keep doing that, it will mean the end of
>> the GOP", it's ended up working out pretty well for the GOP.

> Yeah!   Like that time they made fun of David Duke when he ran for
> President.