Jonathan Cohn, on "The swiftboating of health care":
We're stuck in what Josh Marshall has called a "nonsense feedback loop"--a conversation in which Zeke Emanuel wants to kill grandma, health care reform is bad for the people who can't get health care, and Stephen Hawking has been snuffed out by the British National Health System. Instead of arguments that are unrelated to reality, we're getting arguments that are the very opposite of reality.There's also Sarah Palin's explanation of her "death panels" quote, which fails to address the key discrepancy: Palin said there will be death panels. There aren't going to be any. Posted by Stephen Silver at August 13, 2009 05:47 PM