Buffalo in the spotlight.... this is never good:P

Twice yesterday, across my Facebook threshold came news broadcast to far and near, originating from our very home.

The silly one was this: I've seen these billboards (and related t-shirts, tv ads, etc.) for at least a year now, but George Takei just communicated it to the entire Federation:)



It's a little less funny now, though, since they've been my health insurance provider since this past February- and after the whole kidney kerfuffle, I'm almost wondering if they sent me a red shirt for the whole business and it just got lost in the mail.

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Then we made the Huffington Post, among many other national outlets, on account of a quote from our former King County Executive, now running for Congress, who said this in an extensive interview about Obamacare:

GOP congressional candidate Chris Collins knows health care is expensive these days, but he argues it's for good reason: People are no longer dying from deadly forms of cancer.

"People now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer and some of the other things," he told The Batavian in an interview that was flagged Tuesday by City & State NY. Collins was discussing his desire to repeal Obamacare.

Within a day, both local bloggers and his incumbent Democratic opponent had seized on the gaffe, calling Collins out for his insensitivity to victims and survivors of these still-deadly cancers.  It's since gotten verbose and a little silly, with the author of the original Batavian story giving the King a pass for having

misspoke[n]. More likely, he meant to say. "Fewer people die from prostate cancer, breast cancer and some of the other things." 

So now we have a journalist doing copy editing for his subject. That is so many different kinds of wrong, I can't begin to count them, much less catalog them. And I'm sorry, but when the opposition to the Affordable Care Act has done so much, for so long, to lie eight ways to Sunday about what is in the bill ("death panels," getting between "you and your doctor," etc., etc., etc.), their spokesparrots don't get the customary rights to gaffe forgiveness.  Had the King's opponent said this, it would be all over Foster Freiss attack ads on 20 different tv stations by now.

Just think- we have over four full months of this fun before the election.  Maybe I'll want  Independent Health to send me one of those red shirts by the time it's all over.