Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a Republican who is fighting to keep himself in the national spotlight for a possible run at the White House in 2012, looked downright pathetic while interviewed by a fellow Republican, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. The subject was this ridiculous notion of so-called death panels that far-right conservatives have been aggressively pushing. This partisan showing will come back to haunt him if he does attempt to put together a campaign for the White House. He is going to be called out for using the politics of fear and distortion to campaign against health care. Scarborough appropriately spanked Pawlenty for these scare tactics about death panels and repeatedly tried to get the governor to explain where in the bill death panels were talked about. Then, Pawlenty (blindly partisan) was pretty much schooled by Scarborough on the differences between a so-called death panel (a scare tactic) and end-of-life counseling and had to concede that there is really no death panel stuff in this proposed legislation (although he does try to continue to imply there is something indirect … still a scare tactic).
Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909110004
