WWL radio has made it a company mission to keep stupid health reform myths in permanent commerce. This morning Tommy Tucker (sitting in for Bob) spent two full hours lingering upon the point that fear of "pulling the plug on Grandma" has "galvanized the American public".
Never mind that there is nothing in the proposed health reform legislation which would require anything like forced euthanasia of the elderly. Never mind that the "end-of-life counseling" language upon which the euthanasia joke is loosely based is already being removed from the Senate version of the bill. Tommy Tucker wanted to talk about how awful it would be IF Barack Obama sent an agent to your Grandmother's hospital bed to disconnect her breathing apparatus (even though there is no possibility of anything like this crazy fever dream ever coming to pass) and he wanted to talk about it ALL MORNING LONG. And he did. One assumes that WWL management sees no conflict between its broadcast of Tommy Tucker's morning-long fantasy and its supposed claim to be a "news and information station".
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