Arlen Specter keeps pushing GOP/FOX talking points on FOX, no less. Joe Sestak obliterated it.

[whiteroses]

from americablog.com
http://www.americablog.com/2009/08/arlen-specter-keeps-pushing-gopfox.html

Arlen Specter keeps pushing GOP/FOX talking points on FOX, no less. Joe Sestak obliterated it.
by Joe Sudbay (DC) on 8/25/2009 07:48:00 PM

We wrote about the FOX-led lie on the "death book" for veterans earlier today. But, it's important to see who keeps pushing this fraud. This morning, Arlen Specter appeared on FOX News to keep up the drumbeat on the FOX-led lies. It's appalling that a Democrat (even a new one like Specter) would continue spreading these falsehoods. Media Matters has the video of Specter on FOX today.

Fortunately, there is a Democrat in Pennsylvania who is obliterating the GOP/FOX lies: Joe Sestak. Not only is Sestak a decorated veteran (the highest ranking vet serving in Congress), he's challenging Specter in the Democratic primary. Sestak issued a tough statement today, which blasted the lies and Specter:

"As a Veteran, I read with deep concern an editorial entitled 'The Death Book for Veterans,' which accuses the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of deliberately sending Veterans a 'hurry-up-and-die message' with a pamphlet on living wills and end-of-life care. Anyone may criticize -- and, indeed, suggest improvements to the pamphlet -- but to seriously allege that an honest effort by the VA that sincerely helps families plan for the most difficult emotional experience of their lives is a 'death book' is counter to the public's and Veterans' interest.

"This is the same kind of sensationalized rhetoric and misleading accusations behind the misinformation on 'death panels' in the health care reform debate, and I am disappointed that Arlen Specter would lend credence to this insincere rhetoric by calling for a Senate hearing without, by his own admission, even reading the pamphlet.

That's right, Specter hadn't read the document but was on FOX pushing the lie. Old GOP habits die hard -- and Specter was a GOPer for a long, long, long time.
Sestak was also on Rachel Maddow last night -- and he's outraged by those trying to scare veterans:
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[eleny]

1. "Specter hadn't read the document"

I'm glad that Sestak got into the running.

:kick:

[wisteria]

2. Good for Sestak for setting the record straight, but I am sure Specter will correct this

misunderstanding and not repeat it in the future.

[Metta]

3. kick

:hi: