A lesson for us for the general election: how easy it is for the Rethug media

[pnwmom]

to "Gore" one of our candidates.

They turned Gore into a liar. They turned Kerry into a flip-flopper who couldn't be trusted. They've taken every opportunity to paint HRC as another Democratic liar. It will be Obama next, count on it.

That hospital story that supposedly was one of Clinton's lies? Turns out it was TRUE -- but the correction sure hasn't gotten the publicity of all the accusatory stories. In short: it was a DIFFERENT hospital that had told the woman she couldn't go there if she didn't pay $100 in advance. Not the hospital that stuck its nose in and demanded the story (about an unnamed hospital) be retracted!

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/07/clinton_told_true_tale_of_woe.html

The aunt of a young pregnant woman who died after a hospital told her she needed to pay $100 up front for care said in an interview on Monday that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been telling the story accurately on the campaign trail -- following claims by a different Ohio hospital that it did not turn the patient away.

For weeks, Clinton repeated an anecdote she heard in Ohio on Feb. 28 involving a young woman who lost her baby and later died because she lacked health insurance and did not have $100 to gain access to a nearby hospital.

But over the weekend, Clinton came under fire when officials at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital, after reading about her remarks, demanded that she stop recounting it because the patient, Trina Bechtel, was admitted there and did have insurance.

That part, it turns out, is true. But so is Clinton's claim that Bechtel did not get care at another hospital that wanted a $100 pre-payment before seeing her, according to the young woman's aunt, Lisa Casto. "It's a true story," said Casto, 53.

SNIP

[papau]

1. Telling/proving to folks Clinton's a truth teller & Media/Obama spread smears won't make DU greatest

[pnwmom]

3. What negative thing did I say about Obama? I like him.

I will happily support him in the general, though I'm neutral now.

But I think people who are gloating over HRC's treatment by the media are in for a shock if/when Obama's the nominee. You'd think we'd have learned more from Kerry's Swiftboating.

[cbayer]

2. Nicely put together.

The real tragedy of this is that she was telling a story that needs to be told. This kind of situation occurs all too frequently. Although I don't like these "little people" stories, I think that they are probably effective in driving home the point to some of the electorate who either don't know or don't believe that these things actually happen.

The fact that some supporters of Obama went into a feeding frenzy when it was falsely stated that the story wasn't true is really disquieting to me. All of the hateful accusations that she overtly lied about this and should have verified her facts better being spewed by a group of people who couldn't be bothered to wait and see what was true or not.

Reminds me of 2000 and 2004. Blind allegiance to the leader coupled with an intense need to destroy the so-called opponent.

I still support Obama, but some of his supporters, especially here at DU, are really frightening. I promise you that the media will continue to effectively use them as tools and they will gladly submit.

[pnwmom]

4. Thank you for the voice of reason. I also like Obama,

though I'm neutral for the primaries. But it's been killing me how short-sighted many of his supporters are.

And you're right about the situation with medical care. The fact is, people are turned away from hospitals every single day in this country, for their inability to pay. That's what people here should be up in arms about.