Santorum denies evidence of people dying due to lack of health care.

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12-06-2011, 06:17 PM

Zach F
Denton, TX
Posts: 944

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Harvard studies show that nearly 45,000 Americans die each year due to lack of Health Insurance. Santorum says he rejects these numbers completely, saying there is no way that it's true. What other blatant evidence will he deny in the future?

12-07-2011, 09:12 AM

Schmidt
Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 1058

Rick Santorum is just doing what Republicans do...be dismissive of any fact or opinion that doesn't conform to their ideology. Chris Matthews talked about the "facts don't matter" and the "dismissiveness" of Republican actors back in March:'Dismissive Hatred' a drag on GOP:http://hardballblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/24/6336761-dismissive-hatred-a-...

Quoting Matthews:

"Forty-six percent of Republicans - just about half - believe President Obama is himself a Muslim... and they don't mean that as a compliment. Fifty-one percent believe he was born in some other country."

"Given the Republican party's attitude toward Muslims, given that half of them don't think Obama is a true countryman of theirs, why would they back an effort by president Obama to save the lives of Muslims in Libya?"

"Mitt Romney says Obama doesn't believe in America and what it stands for."

"Mike Huckabee said recently that Obama was brought up in Kenya, grew up loving the Mau Maus."

"Newt Gingrich said that this Mau Maus background of Obama's is the best "predictor" of his policy choices. Want to know what Obama wants to do next? Just figure what the Mau Maus would want to do?"

"Michele Bachman long ago dismissed the president as downright, "anti-American," said it right here on the show. Add to this the drumbeat from some on the right that the United States is being taken over by "sharia" law - that our laws are being construed to mandate strict adherence to the Koran."

Matthews goes on to say that he "cannot remember when the foreign policy of this country was so shrouded in this kind of hateful atmosphere. People believe that the president is not really an American, that he is a Muslim and therefore one of "them," one of those over there in Africa and the Mideast plotting against us. Just listen to Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and their relentless hatred of foreigners, the president being one of them."

So all the crazy talk of people like Santorum...and now the Trump stamp on the debate just amplifies how out of touch with reality these candidates are.

12-15-2011, 03:47 AM

Zach F
Denton, TX
Posts: 944

I think what shocks me the most is that people believe it. People can just say stuff and while a few people will fact check them, the vast majority assume that the person must have done the homework behind it and take it as true.

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