Posted by
Daniel Crandall on Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:03:41 PM
And if that means lying to make a point, then so be it. Paul Krugman admits as much in his latest Democrat Times of New York commentary, reprinted in
Seattle's Democrat Anti-Intelligencer.
The Times, in an
actual bit of news reporting, made it clear that Hillary Clinton was continually repeating a story, about a woman who died for lack of health insurance, for which there was no basis in fact.
The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby
boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But
hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care
of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was
never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured.
For uber-Leftist Paul Krugman facts matter little if it helps creates the Leftist vision America; "... while some of the details were slightly off, the essentials of her story were correct." In fact, the only fact that was correct was the tragedy of Ms. Bachtel's and her baby boy's death. Everything else was false. Mr. Krugman makes it clear that that matters little when there are more important things at stake, like Socialized Health Care:
And even more important, Clinton was making a valid point about the state of health care in America.
... It was particularly
sad to see a number of Obama supporters ... join enthusiastically in the catcalls against Clinton's
good-faith effort to put a human face on the cruelty and injustice of
the American health care system.
... politics is supposed to be about more than cheering your team and
jeering the other side. It's supposed to be about changing the country
for the better.
When hard core Leftists embrace lying as a means to "changing the country for the better", be afraid. Be very afraid.