Death Panel Myth Creator Betsy Mccaughey Resigns

Source: Washington Independent

Betsy McCaughey — an outspoken proponent of the myth that Democrats’ health care reform proposals will lead to the creation of “death panels,” as well as a former lieutenant governor of New York and adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute — has stepped down from her position as a director of Cantel Medical Corp., which bills itself as a “leading provider of infection prevention and control products in the healthcare market.”

From a press release:

CANTEL MEDICAL CORP. (NYSE: CMN – News) announced that on August 20, 2009 it received a letter of resignation from Ms. Elizabeth McCaughey as a director of the Company. Ms. McCaughey, who had served as a director since 2005, stated that she was resigning to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest during the national debate over healthcare reform.

McCaughey found herself the subject of widespread ridicule after an appearance on “The Daily Show” Thursday, during which host Jon Stewart aggressively challenged her positions on health care reform.

Read more: http://washingtonindependent.com/56008/death-panel-myth-creator-betsy-mccaughey-resigns-from-medical-board

Either she realized she'd made a real mug of herself or the company accepted a pre-dated letter to allow her to save some face and pretend her laughable performance wasn't the reason.

Whatever the reason, she's a joke. Last night confirmed it.

Now please invite Billo, "Boner", "limpballs" and some of the other wingnuts.

but I'm glad to see Jon Stewart's still keeping spin doctors on their toes.

Perfectly pwned! Damn, Jon's a genius. She walked into a f*cking ambush.

To quote: "That's why I don't mind being taxed a little more to help people who are not in as favorable a situation. In fact I welcome it as a way to give back to a country that has allowed me to come this far."

I'm only guessing of course. :)

I imagine Cantel wasn't too pleased with her performance.

:rofl:

she isn't the picture of organization, is she?

:rofl:

..an' it sez 'mandantory', an' see what I wrote there? I wrote 'disgusting'. Well, it doesn't actually say 'mandantory', but it could lead to..."

Stewart just sat back and let her self-destruct.

:rofl:

"you know, maybe if you had used post-it notes..."

I'm glad to see them recognized as such. Previously they have gone by such benign names as, accounting, policy review, eligibility, admittance, etc.

get between doctors and their patients.....how insurance companies NEVER interfere with the quality of care provided to patients. She says 46% of patients are under cared for. What she fails to say is that it is directly due to doctors knowing what will and won't get covered by insurance companies either by previous experience or by trying to get pre-qualification from companies. Lying BITCH!

Jon was prepared to take on Betsy. I loved it when he took one of the pages from her and
told her she didn't need it.

Ag Processing Inc
American Crop Protection Association
American Cyanamid
Archer Daniels Midland
Cargill
Ciba-Geigy
ConAgra Foods
Conrad Black
CropLife International
DowElanco
DuPont
Eli Lilly and Company
Exxon Mobil
Fannie Mae
General Electric Fund
Heinz
IBM
Lilly Endowment
McDonald's
Merck
Microsoft
Monsanto
National Agricultural Chemical Association
Nichols-Dezenhall Communications Management Group
Novartis
PayPal
PhRMA
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Procter & Gamble
Sunkist Growers
Syngenta Crop Protection
United Agri Products
Westfield Corporation

Even jaded "myself" was caught off guard by the number of agri-business giants who've openly invested in the mis-information curtain.

Just an observation, but one common link to many of the notables is their business's extensive use of scientific laboratories. I expect the investment groups use edge-of-the-envelope algorithms, kind of a lab of mathematicians. Am I being unusually paranoid or does there seem to be a direct association between what is considered the domain of university sponsored facilities and hugely powerful private business? Maybe even major "minds" and major political power players.

Is this Sci-Fi or what, Igor?

It's what they do with their profits. Next to insurance, Agri-business is the biggest player in the world. When insurance gets knocked off, do they figure, "it's only time before they come after me"?

He deserves a medal of honor.

I underestimated the pressure she was under in that interview.

I was WRONG. I love being wrong!

He didn't have to work to hard she provided the idiocy and he just read the document.

I mean it doesn't take a genius to make the argument. I just don't get it. Really pathetic reflection on our state of journalism.

We need another maverick type with money like Ted Turner to start a new news company. There are still good investigative journalist out there but they are being overshadowed by hacks reporting on bubblegum topics.

I think it's part of the framing and management of political debate in this country. The 'journalists' on the cable networks know which side of their bread is buttered. If they get uppity and probe too deeply or ask the 'wrong' questions, it's likely they'll be looking for another job rather promptly. Look at what happened to Phil Donahue - who hosted one of the highest rated programs on MSNBC - during the propaganda campaign that attempted to manufacture consent for the invasion of Iraq.

But it is definitely an indication of the sorry state of journalism in the U.S.

Which is why we now find "real news" on the Comedy channel..

And that is what is wrong with not just this country. "It's just a job" has resulted in the death of millions of people, and the planet's ecosystem.

I am disgusted how high stupid can go when it is incompetent yet liked, all the way to"former lieutenant governor of New York and adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute"?! WTF? Dogmatic, fighting her imaginary enemies.....

"That's not what this says." I read it that way, too. :applause: Go, Jon!

Why did she go on in the first place, has she never watched the show?

They must think he's some kind of clown, and their staffs simply don't seem to prepare them for Jon's intelligence and preparedness. What happened to Betsy was simply one of his better episodes.

Incredible.

Hekate

She thought he was a clown. And he's, you know, much smarter than most of those bozos.


>>They must think he's some kind of clown, and their staffs simply don't seem to prepare them for Jon's intelligence and preparedness. What happened to Betsy was simply one of his better episodes.

Incredible.<<

Jester
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

<snip>

Political significance

In societies where freedom of speech was not recognized as a right, the court jester—precisely because anything he said was by definition "a jest" and "the uttering of a fool"—could speak frankly on controversial issues<1> in a way in which anyone else would have been severely punished for. Monarchs understood the usefulness of having such a person at their side.<1> Still, even the jester was not entirely immune from punishment, and he needed to walk a thin line and exercise careful judgment in how far he might go - which required him to be far from a fool, in the modern sense.

<snip>

King James also employed a jester called Archibald Armstrong. During his lifetime Armstrong was given great honours at court. He was eventually thrown out of the King's employment when he over-reached himself and insulted too many influential people. Even after his disgrace, books telling of his jests were sold in London streets. He held some influence at court still in the reign of Charles I and estates of land in Ireland. Charles later employed a jester called Jeffrey Hudson who was very popular and loyal. Jeffrey Hudson had the title of Royal Dwarf because he was short of stature. One of his jests was to be presented hidden in a giant pie from which he would leap out. Hudson fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War. A third jester associated with Charles I was called Muckle John.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester#Political_significance

Sheesh.

I said *she* thought he was a clown. Big effing diff, dude. ye gods.

Poor communication on my part.

McCaughey resigns as director of medical company

Betsy McCaughey, the healthcare reform opponent who helped tank the Clinton administration's plans and has been spreading misinformation about the current proposals, has resigned from the board of directors of a medical equipment company.

A release put out Friday afternoon by Cantel Medical says that the company received McCaughey's letter of resignation on Thursday. The letter, Cantel Medical says, "stated that she was resigning to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest during the national debate over healthcare reform." McCaughey reportedly received about $30,000 a year in fees from the company.

McCaughey received some negative attention Friday after her appearance on "The Daily Show," which featured host Jon Stewart going hard after her and her claims about healthcare reform.


More:
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/08/21/mccaughey/



See also:


August 17, 2009: Exclusive - Betsy McCaughey Extended Interview Pt. 1
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-17-2009/exclusive---betsy-mccaughey-extended-interview-pt--1


Did Jon Stewart keep her ruby slippers after he dropped a house on her?

No, it isn't pocket change to ME. But to her? And her pals? That's barely beer money.

My interpretation of that is "She did her part, now we have to pretend it wasn't for the money"

She was getting 30k a year for how many years? She has received the money, and likely will again after whatever health bill there is is passed or not. She already got the big lie into the public forum, so why keep her around and take heat?

And in another 4-40 years, when the Corps need a liar to make another big lie, would you want to be the one betting that she will not have resumed her place on their payroll in the interim?

Maybe she was offered a post with Dick Armey - or some other repub cabal -- hey, she can get a facebook page like Sarah and speak to the townies there.

I wouldn't be high-fivin' just yet.

Too choice. :rofl:

No, not really.


But I wonder if someone did.

Made her look more ridiculous than she already did.

It would have been funnier if they just went to commercial while he was doing Yakkity Sax and then, when we came back from commercial, she finally found the page.

He could have kept her wound-up tight as a drum for three more minutes.

Even Pataki had to boot her. Once she lost the financial support of her billionaire husband and had to work for herself, she was screwn in politics.

source.

My own family: father was given multiple operations at Johns Hopkins that were unnecessary b/c he was sick, dying and 82 y.o. He begged to die, he was given competency tests that he passed with flying colors, but the drs. kept deferring to my stepmother, even when my father could talk and say he wanted no more extraordinary measures. They kept treating him, the bills came to hundreds of thousands of dollars over a one-month period. Finally the drs. said, a few wks after my father said to leave him alone and let him go, they couldn't do anything more.

So he died anyway, despite the many operations, breathing tube, feeding tube, etc, and begging to die in dignity weeks before.

My grandmother broke her hip at age 92 and said, gather the family around, I'm slipping away and want to say goodbye. My father and uncle insisted she get the hip fixed and it would be no problem (so the drs. say). After the operation, she ended up a vegetable who could not speak and had to be fed, diapered, etc. She lived two yrs. like that and the drs. and nursing home got her inheritance (about $1 million), and not the family.

Do NOT trust the drs. and others in your family to make decisions for you. Make your own decisions while you still can and get a document signed by your lawyer and witnesses.

Will COBRA kick in before she is offered a job with Faux?

Nothing much new here.

and now they can't use her anymore...

The conflict is already interesting Betsy.

with me as one of the panelists.

Thank you for calling them what they are.

You have our backs.:yourock:

:bounce::applause:

Watch the link. Great, great stuff.

Oh, and throw in Terri Jeffries, just to watch him get his ass kicked.


Now THAT would be an awesome panel.

because sometimes all it takes is exposure to reality and they melt away. Without Rove trying to fake out the media all is lost with these people.

I feel she's bound for a lucrative career in the RW propaganda field for sure ... much more than she was getting ...

Now she can sit there and play "martyr" ... a human sacrifice the "liberal media" made to the ObamaGod ...

..........look like the dumb bitch she is.



Disclaimer: I don't want to hear any crap about the "term" bitch used here. I believe it applies in her case and in certain other cases for instance Ann Coulter.

I would have no problem in the world as someone describing for instance Tom DeLay as a jag off or other (I think appropriate) name.

with a rethug company.

They've done their damage with the "death panel" crap...It's been played out. Now they'll find some other lie to spew.

won't lie about

It's nice to see serial liar's paying some kinda price for their massacre of the truth.

industry seen the writing on the wall and decided there's no sense paying for these flacks and/or it's time to disassociate themselves from them? If a third one goes down, I'd be willing to call it a trend.

When a spotlight is shone on them, they don't like it very much. I think it was the financial situations of their respective companies, is what made them get the sack. Been associated with those two cannot be good for business, especially when the repubs are out of power.

She was reduced to the blithering fool that she is. Jon is brilliant. I just love that guy.

Julie

I don't know what took the liar so long.

Let's have more such guests on Comedy Central. A nice channel to air repug talking points.

where do they find those broads?,they seem like bad actors with a sleezy agent.

...(thanks Daily Show!) and I am GRATEFUL that such legislation is incorporated.

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!

Like a basic cable friendly Bill Maher. I wonder why they haven't done each others show, they are the two most respectable news men there are. The only ones who ask real questions and tell the truth.

probably could have read that document with more clarity than McCaughey as far as I can tell. Her strident argument with Jon last night only made her look like she'd been rehearsing the argument for a week or more.

What can I say? Anyone who would be following her lead and repeating her points seriously needs to be put in a straitjacket and put in a mental ward--isn't that right, Mrs. Palin?

:eyes:

Hope stupidity isn't a pre-existing condition!

We're really missing the main point.

Guess it didn't work so much. I now return you to your serious discussion thread.

....actually, she was simply pathetic, Jon Stuart was hysterical and right on the mark. It's amazing that she has advanced degrees - he was bebopping and scatting all over her and she didn't even realize it! She just kept saying he was cute.

The funniest part was when he asked her where something she was talking about was contained in the health care bill (she had a binder with most of it in it), and she said "it's right here on page 4??" (I forget the actual page) then couldn't find the page!!!! Great television!

Sorry she resigned, she may not be as entertaining any more.

with all the extraordinary measures they experimented on him---breathing tube, feeding tube, operations, high doses of antibiotics. He got to the point where he was begging to sign the paper that would give him the right to die----and he was completely mentally competent at the time, although very sick in the ICU. My stepmother refused to let him sign and kept trying to keep him alive with these extraordinary measures, although he was suffering terribly.

Betsy McCagey is full of BS---not all patients want to live when they are suffering near end-of-life. :puke: