For those of you scoring at home, yes, this one is closely related to the PTBC Quote of the Week Award, so please do not send hate mail accusing me of being a shill of the massive corporate award-giving industrial complex of the right.
And actually, truth be known, this particular award doesn’t really exist as yet. But being the weekend, I may well create an official trophy to add to our awesome though still largely un-coveted award series (and I mean even the positive ones are still largely un-coveted), and add the new graphic later. UPDATE SUNDAY: Created and added.
How shocking that I award Charles Krauthammer yet another sweet ProudToBeCanadian award. You’d think I liked his writing or something. Soon he will have to build an addition to his office to stack all the PTBC trophies.
SPOILER ALERT: This is the closing paragraph of his latest column, “Let’s Be Honest About Death Counseling”, in which he summarizes the “death panel” debate which the spot-on Sarah Palin started a week or two ago, and whom Krauthammer politely dismisses from the room right from the get-go.
”…It’s not an outrage. It’s surely not a death panel. But it is subtle pressure applied by society through your doctor. And when you include it in a health care reform whose major objective is to bend the cost curve downward, you have to be a fool or a knave to deny that it’s intended to gently point you in a certain direction, toward the corner of the sick room where stands a ghostly figure, scythe in hand, offering release.”
For his part, as if trying to be our runner-up, writer, commentator, and sometimes politician Pat Buchanan wrote this week:
…Of Sarah Palin it may be said: The lady knows how to frame an issue.
And while she has been fairly criticized for hyperbole about the end-of-life counselors in the House bill, she drew such attention to the provision that Democrats chose to dump it rather than debate it. …
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But don’t worry, liberals and Democrats still think she’s not worthy of attention, she’s a joke, a billy-goat, stupid, and can’t frame an argument if her life depended on it. Except that she is proving time and again to be the only one who is framing any arguments that are winning public appeal. That great communicator and icon of mass-appeal and the cult of personality, Barack Obama, and his entire liberal Democratic Party stable of academic geniuses and experts and even with the help of PR firms and creative writing squads and the entire liberal mass media —all taken together— have proven to be utterly incapable of doing so; or of even winning the battle of minds over her. Funny that.
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