Shorter Clay “Man of My Dreams” Waters, Newsblusterers
New York Times Again Falsely Claims Audience Shouted ‘Let Him Die!’ During GOP Debate
Apparently the winsomely handsome sex-pot Clay Waters is the only one at Newsblusters who has enough three-syllable words in his vocabulary to be able to read the Sunday New York Times. So sometime this past weekend, Clay hunkered down with a pound or two of microwaveable bacon strips and the magazine section of the NYT looking for stuff that would make Brent Bozoell proud to be Clay’s Sugar Daddy and happy to keep the checks and gifts coming in Clay’s direction. (We can safely assume that Clay wasn’t doing the crossword puzzle.)
And here are the fruits of Clay’s perusal of the Sunday NYT magazine:
Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee talked to Andrew Goldman for the New York Times Magazine, who used a media myth to give Huckabee a platform to call the Republican Party “hyperorthodox” and excessively ideological
Oooh. A “media myth” and a RINO attack before Clay has even finished the first sentence. Clay is really earning his keep at Newsblusterers today.
Goldman’s opening question basically begged Huckabee to bash the GOP: “During the Republican primary debates, audience members booed a question from an active serviceman who was gay and shouted, “Let him die,” about a hypothetical gravely ill patient without insurance. Is this different from the party that you know and love?” Huckabee obliged by smacking the slow pitch: “Very much. . . . “
Now comes the piercing media analysis for which Bozell’s boys are so justly famous:
One problem: No one shouted “Let him die” at the Republican debate televised on CNN and hosted by Wolf Blitzer.
In fact, it is well known that the entire audience of Republicans started weeping inconsolably at the very thought of someone dying because they lacked health insurance.
As Times Watch reported back on September 23, 2011 after the paper first forwarded this falsity as fact: “It was debate moderator Wolf Blitzer who actually used the words ‘let him die,’ when asking candidate Ron Paul a loaded question about letting a hypothetical man die for lack of health insurance. There is no auditory evidence anyone at all in the crowd shouted such a thing….” ABC News gave a more accurate presentation of what happened.
As you can discern from the Shorter, the “more accurate presentation” of what happened is that Wolf asked Ron Paul ” “Congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?” and some members of the audience shouted “Yeah.” Waters’s claim that this isn’t the same thing as shouting “Let him die” is the sort of sophistry that you’d expect from a six-year old and not even a smart six-year old. “I didn’t hit Timmy. His face just fell into my fist. I swear!”
Of course, the reason that Clay is relegated to the amateur wingnuttia at Newsblusters is that he didn’t even have the wits to come up with something clever like arguing that there is no proof that the folks who shouted “Yeah” were Republican. For all we know, they could have been Islamocommie Obama supporters who snuck into the debates just to make Republicans look bad. Or that actually they didn’t say “Yeah” in English but were speaking Transcroaslavimongolian and said “Yöøeâuh,” which sounds much like “yeah” but which means, roughly, “Please, dear Lord, give him insurance and save his precious life.”
