Now if the name BETSY MCCAUGHEY rings a bell, it's because she helped created the lies about Hillary Clinton's health care plan. Google her and James Fallows. She's now back creating lies about the Obama plan. See this article. The distortions she put forward in this column have filtered down to the Palins and Becks of the world.

NOW why does OBAMA need to get on this? Because the evil doctor Beck is calling out? It's Rahm Emanuel's brother, Ezekial. Here's the article he wrote in a bioethics journal.

They are going to do the same thing to Dr. Emanuel that they did to Sonya Sotomayor. The first thing you are going to hear about them is a lie and a distortion of their true philosophy and who is going to bother to read the original sources. I am way smarter than Beck and Palin, but the bioethics article is hard for me to understand, it's intended for a specialty audience. But just as the main point of Sotomayor's speech, that a judge needs to actively check themselves against unconscious bias, was distorted, they are doing the same to this article. These article seems to me to be the beginning of a discussion, not hard and fast rules. HOWEVER, THE WHITE HOUSE NEEDS TO get what Dr. Emanuel truly believes out to the news media because otherwise the lie will take hold.

Did the White House learn from Sotomayor battle about monitoring wingnut media? They may want to have a debate on Ezekial Emanuel, but they are not going to have that luxury. By Googling the url of the article, I found this bit of wingnut filth.