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other is how this new phe-nomenon
—
the ability tospread misleading infor-mation at rapid speedthrough chain e-mails,blogs, text-messaging and
“tweets”—
will affect thereform debate.
“What we‟re seeing is a
flood of viral content thatdistorts the Obama effortto reform
health care,”
says Kathleen HallJamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Pol-icy Center at the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, whoruns FactCheck.org, awebsite that examinesspecious claims from allsides of the political spec-
trum. “Extremists and
people who are so locked
Now it‟s getting down and
dirty. As expected, thegloves are off in President
Obama‟s push for 
healthcare reform. Democratsand Republicans are bat-tling over how to fix a sys-tem they all agree is bro-ken
—that‟s how Congress
is supposed to work. Butthis summer somethingnew has entered the politi-cal arena
—
a tsunami of rumors, myths, fear-mongering and misinfor-mation aboutthe proposals that surgesaround the Internet in
nanoseconds. “I‟m totallyconfused about what‟sgoing on,” one reader 
wrote to the AARP Bulle-
tin. “How do I know who tobelieve?”
It is a good question. An-A Nevada state taskforce is looking at ways toimprove the collection of delinquent child supportpayments after a legisla-tive audit found deficien-cies.Nevada consistently ranksnear the bottom of thenation in payment collec-tion. Last year the statecollected about 52 percentof the paymentsowed. The national aver-age is about 61 percent.
“The last ranking I saw
for Nevada in child sup-port enforcement was54th, ranking us evenlower than the territory of 
Guam,” said Assembly-
woman Sheila Leslie, D-
Reno. “To say our 
childsupport enforce-
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Republican Joe Wilson’s
Lie
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Social Justice and Ameri-can Character 3
Thousands of downtownDC protesters blast
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Congress just can’t get
any respect
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September 12, 2009Vol 1 No 9
ment system is broken
is not accurate. It‟s be-yond abysmal.”
Nevada, in many ways,is about as modern assome third world coun-tries we read about andsee on TV. Readmore.  into their own ideology that
they‟ll distort anything havebeen out there forever,”she adds. “But they haven‟t
had a way to reach out toas many people as effi-
ciently as they have now.”
 The rise of the Internet andthe decline of the main-stream press as a primesource of information is afactor.Readmore. 
 
In reality, the so-called
„death panel provision,‟
Section 1233 of theHouse Tri Committeebill, would allow Medi-care to reimburse pro-viders for consult-ing with patients aboutend-of-life issues;nothing in the sectionmandates a consulta-tion. In fact, the provi-sion builds on Presi-
dent Bush‟s efforts to
expand Medicare cov-erage
to “counseling
the beneficiary withrespect to end-of-lifeissues and care op-
tions” for terminally ill
patients. In 2003,Grassley voted in favor of the provision as part
of Bush‟s Medicare
drug bill.
“I‟ve been told that the
brain tumor that Sen.Kennedy has
—
be-
cause he‟s 77 years
old
—
would not be
treated the way it‟s
treated in the UnitedStates. In other words,he would not get thecare he gets here be-
cause of his age.”
Watch the video. Readmore. 
trict is based in thestate capital, Columbia,and stretches to theresort towns of Beaufortand Hilton Head Island.He yelled at President
Obama “You lie,” during
his speech to the jointsession of Congress.Wilson yelled out after He is usually known as
“Lyin‟ Joe Wilson,” aka
Joe Wilson (born July31, 1947). He is a Re-publican politician fromthe state of South Caro-lina, currently repre-
senting the state‟s 2nd
congressional district, inthe U.S. House of Rep-resentatives. The dis-President Obama as-sured the Americanpeople that illegal immi-grants would not becovered in the healthcare reform. Fac-tCheck.org on August28, 2009 maintains thatillegal immigrants arenot covered, calling the
allegation “not true.”
Grassley defends his “pull the plug ongrandma” remarks
 
Republican Joe Wilson’s Lie
 
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Sen. Chuck Grassley
When I spoke here last win-ter, this nation was facingthe worst economic crisissince the Great Depres-sion. We were losing anaverage of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was fro-zen. And our financial sys-tem was on the verge of collapse.As any American who isstill looking for work or a wayto pay their bills will tell you,we are by no means out of thewoods. A full and vibrant re-covery is still many monthsaway. And I will not let up untilthose Americans who seek jobs can find them
—
 (applause)
—
until those busi-nesses that seek capital andcredit can thrive; until all re-sponsible homeowners canstay in their homes. That is our ultimate goal. But thanks tothe bold and decisive action
we‟ve taken since January, I
can stand here with confidenceand say that we have pulledthis economy back from thebrink.
So began President Obama‟s
speech to the joint session of Congress.Read it all. 
Joe Wilson (R-SC)
 
ter of our country.”
 
Just what is the “character of America?”
 There are, I think, two views:How do we see ourselves? Howdo others see us? Like art,beauty is in the eye of the be-holder. We who live here see theAmerican character in one light.Others, who live elsewhere, seeit differently. Objectivity can bequestioned because of the differ-ent cultural and life experiencesof the individual viewer.The American Studies at theUniversity of Virginia is as gooda starting point as any to beginexploring the character of Amer-ica.Read what others have saidabout our character. You may besurprised.Read more. 
is practically an Ameri-can tradition, notesthe Times, citing healthcare fight and impro-
prieties of Nevada‟s
Senator John Ensignand Democrat CharlesRangel.In addition to the furor over the Wilson epi-sode, the Senate hasRepresentative Joe Wil-
son‟s outburst is helping
hold down public ap-proval of Congress atthe moment, the fact isthat Americans, at leastas reflected in polls andother studies, typicallysee the institution in arelatively poor light.Contempt for Congresshad to deal with thecase of Senator JohnEnsign of Nevada, whohad to quit the Republi-can leadership after ac-knowledging an extra-marital affair and pay-
ments to the woman‟s
family. And Representa-tive Charles B. Rangel,the New York Democratwho is chairman of the
clogged several blocksnear capitol, according tothe D.C. Homeland Secu-rity and Emergency Man-agement Agency. Demon-strators chanted "enough,enough" and "We thePeople." Others yelled"You lie, you lie!" and"Pelosi has to go," refer-ring to HouseTens of thousands of pro-testers fed up with govern-ment spending marchedto the U.S. Capitol on Sat-urday, showing their dis-dain for the president'shealth care plan with slo-gans such as "Obamacaremakes me sick" and "I'mnot your ATM."The line of protesters
Social justice and nationalcharacter 
Congress just can’t get any respect
Thousands of downtown DC protestersblast Obama
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When President Obama ad-dressed the joint session of Con-gress he cited the moral issueinherent in the current healthcare reform struggle. Quoting thelate Senator Ted Kennedy, hesaid:
“What we face,” he wrote, “is
above all a moral issue; at stakeare not just the details of policy,but fundamental principlesof social justice and the charac-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.Other signs - reflectingthe growing intensity of the health care debate -depicted PresidentBarack Obama with thesignature mustache of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.Many made reference toObama as a so-cialist or commu-nist, and another imposed his faceon that of the vil-lainous Joker from "Batman."Read more. 
House Ways and MeansCommittee, has acknowl-edged owing back taxeson some earnings andrecently revised his finan-cial disclosure statementsto add significant assetshe had not previouslylisted.Read more. 
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