PALIN – “SOCIALISTS SLAY SENIORS”

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." Thus posted Sarah Palin on her Facebook page regarding Obama's health-care plans. Palin isn't citing anything in any of the draft healthcare bills -- which, more than likely, she hasn't read. She's taking off from a congressional floor speech by Michelle Bachmann – the even more cretinous and extreme nut-job. (If such was possible.) Both Palin and Bachmann are busily and elaborately riffing on one of the currently circulating, insurance corps-generated black-ops rumors that, under socialism – as in France, Canada, and the UK – the old and the sick are routinely murdered when the cost of the their medical treatment is no longer socially viable. When President Obama was told of Palin's comment, he commented how it was "unproductive for Republican leaders to spread this kind of misinformation.”