Re: [epilepsy] The "other side's response" to that 60 Minutes story

Jason,

If those attitudes come thru in this group-- you can count me out.

It hasn't been long that you all wanted a program on EP, We got
one. Now let's see if we can get more and improve them.

Millie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason" <tiscione@gmail.com>
To: <epilepsy@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:27 PM
Subject: [epilepsy] The "other side's response" to that 60 Minutes story

Is anyone interested in a less charitable, more cynical take on that 60
minutes story with David Axelrod and his epileptic daughter?

Naturally, Michelle Malkin has a shocking one for you, if you're a glutton
for punishment:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/26/david-axelrods-i-care-campaign/

(You only need to click on that URL if you want to read the disgusting
comments.) This is what she says there:

[snip]

*In Chicago, there are no coincidences.
In Chicago-on-the-Potomac, there are no coincidences, either.

In the desperate push for Obamacare, the White House spin doctors are
pulling out all the stops to distract from the disastrous numbers by ginning
up emotions.
FLOTUS is playing the the concerned parent card.

So is White House senior adviser/Astroturf master/Big Pharma beneficiary
David Axelrod, who appeared on 60 Minutes with Katie
Couric<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/23/60minutes/main5414456.shtml>this
weekend to talk about the epilectic daughter he never sees because
he's
so busy trying to salvage his boss's government health care takeover plans.
The AP dutifully recycled the story — which itself had been recycled
from February's
Parade
magazine.<http://www.parade.com/health/2009/02/susan-axelrod-CURE-epilepsy.html>

Ann Kane at the American Thinker is dead on: *

*This is all very noble, until we look at who the advisor to the president
really is: a PR man par excellence. No matter what he says, even lovingly
about family members, he will always be under suspicion for promoting a
brand. That's just the way it is with professional spinners. So, when the
going gets tough for him and the White House, the tough create a soft news
story.*

*Cynically-timed puff pieces on Axelrod = "news."*

*Investigative commentary on and analysis of Obama's radicals and subversive
policies = "Not news."*

*What's next? A prime-time special on how Rahm Emanuel nursed his
grandmother back to health?*

[/snip]

(I removed the links to American Thinker, American Spectator, and earlier
Malkin posts.)

I was taken away by all this... but I really like the way she spells
"epileptic". There is definitely something wrong with Michelle's brain but
it doesn't appear to be "epilecsy".

Of all the sneerful commenters, I could only find one who seemed to have any
familiarity with epilepsy or respect for people with it at all:

[snip]
On October 26th, 2009 at 1:44 pm, farmgal said:

*Having 3 children that are Epileptic 2 have very serious forms of it,I'm
always encouraged when there's news on Epilepsy that lets people know that
Epilepsy is a very tough sometimes fatal disability,instead of the easily
controlled one it's often potrayed as.But with that said I couldn't watch
it,because I know very well who David Axelrod is and what he's trying to
promote in socialized medicine and I can't stand Katie Couric.It makes me
ill to think of people who dump their children in homes because they don't
want to care for them,especially with the money that family has.Please spare
me the phony tears.Linn*

[/snip]

You can tell she's for real, because she can spell "epilepsy" correctly.
Although I still disagree with those who capitalize the E.

-Jason

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