"Death Panels": the Circles of Sarah Palin

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by Rick Horowitz

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil."

--From a post on Sarah Palin's Facebook page, Aug. 7

Possibility No. 1: She had nothing to do with it. Some Sarah Palin impostor somehow got access to Sarah Palin's Facebook page and posted the bizarre (and fact-free) comments that have stirred up such a fuss.

Plausible, but unlikely. For starters, the former governor has had days to disavow the comments if they weren't actually hers; aside from an equally bizarre (and irony-free) follow-up comment urging her fellow opponents of health-care reform to practice "civil discourse," she's done no such thing.

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