Conservative media attack Dems for playing “death card” while using Kennedy’s death to attack health care
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 28th, 2009 4:42 am by HL
Following Sen. Ted Kennedy’s death, several conservative media figures — including Rush Limbaugh — have attacked Democrats for purportedly attempting to use his passing to stifle debate and enact health care reform legislation. But conservative media figures — also including Limbaugh — have used Kennedy’s death to attack health care reform, baselessly suggesting that if reform passes, elderly cancer patients — as Kennedy was — will be “denied” treatments or that their treatments will be “rationed.”
Limbaugh invokes Wellstone memorial — “a frat party compared to what’s going to happen” with Kennedy. On the August 27 8/26/09]
