Is Palin's Schlafly-style fear rhetoric ethical politics? »
Posted By ybdogsct 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Political OpinionSarah Palin's beloved child Trig, born with Down Syndrome, is safe and so is everyone else who has been terrified by her hyperbolic "death panel" rhetoric on President Obama's health care reform efforts.
I'll leave it to our editorial page to debunk the unsubstantiated and preposterous Palin press release -- a wild distortion of an optional benefit already offered under Medicare to pay doctors for helping patients and their family face end-of-life decision making according to their own values.
What interests me here is the tactical gimmick of arguing-by-extremes.
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