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(Newser) - Town hall crazies, you have met your match. Rep. Barney Frank had no time for a woman who asked why he supported Barack Obama's "Nazi" policies, calling it "vile, contemptible nonsense" and asking, "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" When the questioner... More »

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Barack Obama • Nazi • Barney Frank • health care reform • town hall meeting • right wingers • right-wing extremism • deathers

(Newser) - The man who brought an assault rifle to Barack Obama’s speech yesterday wasn’t alone. Roughly a dozen protesters were seen carrying guns, the AP reports. Phoenix police say the men didn’t need permits, and didn’t commit any crime. In fact, they say they were worried someone... More »

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Barack Obama • Arizona • protests • Phoenix • health care reform • Second Amendment • assault rifles • assault weapons • deathers

 Another Obama Speech, 
 Another Armed Citizen 

Man brings assault rifle, pistol to health-care rally

Aug 17, 09 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's appearance at a VFW convention in Phoenix today was marked by yet another appearance of a man with a gun, the Arizona Republic reports. As separate crowds of protesters for and against health care reform rallied outside the Phoenix convention center, a man with an AR-15 rifle and... More »

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health care • Arizona • health care reform • Second Amendment • assault rifles • protesters • guns • President Obama • deathers

(AP) - Now it's personal. President Barack Obama invoked his own anguish over the death of his grandmother as he challenged the notion that Democratic efforts to overhaul the nation's health care would include so-called death panels. "I just lost my grandmother last year. I know what it's like to watch... More »

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Colorado • health care reform • town hall meeting • Madelyn Dunham • President Obama • death panel • deathers

OPINION

 Palin on Facebook: 
 Now She's Got a Ghostwriter 

She even used a semicolon—it can't possibly be her

Aug 13, 09 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin came out swinging on Facebook last night, responding to criticism of her infamous “death panels” comment in a 1,000-word, point-by-point rebuttal, complete with footnotes. There’s only one problem, notes Cajun Boy on Gawker: “There’s no way in hell Sarah Palin wrote it.”... More »

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health care • Facebook • ghostwrite • health care reform • Sarah Palin • death panel • deathers

(Newser) - Put Sen. Chuck Grassley in the fear-the-death-panels camp. Asked today at a town hall meeting to debunk that line of attack, Grassley did precisely the opposite, reports the Iowa Independent. "You have every right to fear," said Grassley—who, by the way, is one of three Republicans negotiating... More »

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Iowa • Charles Grassley • health care reform • town hall meeting • senator • death panel • deathers

(Newser) - Scan the ranks of health care reform malcontents at your local town hall, and you’ll notice a lot of older faces. With Democrats aiming their sales pitch mostly at middle-class Americans and the uninsured, seniors have come to fear that Medicare, their own beloved government-run health care, will face... More »

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health care costs • health insurance • Medicare • AARP • health care reform • senior citizens • deathers

OPINION

 2 Words Could Clean Up
'Death Panel' Mess: Parker

'A simple amendment' would put debate to rest

Aug 12, 09 8:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin went way too far in suggesting “death panels” would kill her loved ones—but  the wording of the House health bill authorizing payment for end-of-life consultations is worrisome, writes Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post. “A simple amendment would do much to cool tempers.” The... More »

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language • health care reform • bill • Kathleen Parker • amendment • death panel • end-of-life care • deathers

health care town hall

 Obama Takes On Rationing,  
 'Death Panel' Rumors 


Aug 11, 09 1:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama took the stage in New Hampshire today to set the record straight about Democratic health care reform efforts. Though the crowd was all applause, Obama took on the raucous protests that have characterized recent town halls. “Let's disagree over things that are real, not these wild misrepresentations,... More »

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Barack Obama • health care costs • health insurance • rationing • health care reform • town hall meeting • women's issues • death panel • deathers

OPINION

Guess What, Sarah? Those 'Death Panels' Already Exist ...

... they're being run by insurance companies

Aug 11, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin thinks health care reform will bring with it “death panels,” collections of bureaucrats who will ration care, deciding whose life is and isn’t worth saving. The flaw in that logic? “That’s not the future of health care—it’s the present,” writes... More »

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health care • health insurance • euthanasia • rationing • health care reform • insurance industry • Sarah Palin • women's issues • deathers

(Newser) - Now that notable unemployed person Sarah Palin has revealed Barack Obama’s plans for bureaucrat-run “death panels,” Americans are full of questions. Will the death panels cover everyone? What will our premiums be? Should they be public, or should we try a free-market death panel exchange? Well, Jon... More »

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euthanasia • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Sarah Palin • deathers

(Newser) - Sarah Palin urged supporters to show restraint at town hall meetings, arguing that disruptive protests were giving Democrats ammunition. “There are many disturbing details in the current bill that Washington is trying to rush through Congress,” she said on Facebook yesterday, but we must “not get sidetracked... More »

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health care • protests • health care reform • town hall meeting • Sarah Palin • Trig Palin • deathers

(Newser) - So now Sarah Palin alleges that President Obama's "death panels" might have killed Trig had they been in place. "Where to start?" wonders Joan Walsh in Salon. "Palin's entire statement is so ignorant, so bollixed rhetorically and morally, it hurts to read it." Most "health... More »

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health care reform • Sarah Palin • conservatives • Trig Palin • President Obama • Republicans • women's issues • deathers

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