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Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 08:29 AM Jul 2012

Right Wing Attacks Stephanie Miller, Sobbing Ohioan Hugged by President Obama





For four years, Stephanie Miller, whose 37 year old sister Kelly Hines died of colon cancer four years ago, has wanted to tell President Obama her sister’s story. Yesterday in Ohio, the nation was moved as Stephanie got to not only tell Obama her heartbreaking story, but she also got a big hug from the President.

And then she got the backlash. By last night, the Right wing was in full attack mode, calling her a plant replete with accusations of conjuring evil and issuing fake tears over her sister’s death, claiming her sister deserved what she got because she “chose not to get insurance.”

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Alan Colmes brought up the right wing attacks, but Stephanie is no shrinking violet. She pointed out that while yesterday was the four year anniversary of her sister’s death, she knew there would be a lot of negative reaction but it doesn’t bother her.

For her, yesterday was a once in a lifetime chance to tell the President her sister’s story, “I didn’t think I would actually be able to talk to him (Obama). I was fortunate enough to get close enough to touch him. And I decided it was now or never to tell him her story and he was gracious enough to stand there and let me tell him her story.”

Is the Right wing simply refusing to accept the fact that people in this country actually die from lack of health insurance? They seem to believe that people can afford insurance but choose not to purchase it (this is actually an argument for Obama Care as it will make insurance affordable for everyone, but we’ll let this intellectual lapse go). In Stephanie’s sister’s case, her income was too high for Medicaid. This is a common problem for middle-income families. They make too much to be eligible for help, but not enough to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars it takes to fight a disease like cancer

http://www.politicususa.com/stephanie-miller-shes-tough-handle-wing-attacks-post-obama-hug.html

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Right Wing Attacks Stephanie Miller, Sobbing Ohioan Hugged by President Obama (Original Post) Douglas Carpenter Jul 2012 OP
Of course they are. They wouldn't be themselves if Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2012 #1
K & R Scurrilous Jul 2012 #2
These idiots have no shame bigdarryl Jul 2012 #3
k&r nt steve2470 Jul 2012 #4
It's hard to conceive of people who react to tragedy by deriding the victims. sinkingfeeling Jul 2012 #5
it is very "Old Testament" KurtNYC Jul 2012 #6
It's the "just world fallacy": NYC Liberal Jul 2012 #7
My own personal eye-opening epiphany about this came in the coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #8
I still have a hard time accepting that people have no empathy for others. sinkingfeeling Jul 2012 #9
Every time they see anything that can tug at the heart... Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2012 #10
They believe Pro Wrestling is real, and that Joe the "Plumber" was NOT a plant... Mister Ed Jul 2012 #11
He's a vegetable Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2012 #13
They are a bunch of heartless ghouls Cali_Democrat Jul 2012 #12

NYC Liberal

(20,132 posts)
7. It's the "just world fallacy":
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:15 AM
Jul 2012
The idea that people need to believe one will get what one deserves so strongly that they will rationalize an inexplicable injustice by naming things the victim might have done to deserve it. Also known as blaming the victim, the just-world fallacy, and the just-world effect.

Example: Because it’s far too frightening for many to accept that bad things can happen to good people, and therefore that they themselves have no control over whether bad things might happen to them someday, they will instead search for ways to differentiate themselves from victims of ill fortune. For example, outsiders might deride people whose houses were destroyed by a tornado, blaming them for choosing to live in a disaster-prone area or for not building a stronger house.

http://psychcentral.com/encyclopedia/2009/just-world-hypothesis/
 

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
8. My own personal eye-opening epiphany about this came in the
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:20 AM
Jul 2012

wake of Katrina, when the CFO of the small startup for which I worked told me that those who remained in New Orleans as the storm approached somehow 'deserved' what happened to them b/c they didn't obey the order to evacuate.

I quit that job shortly thereafter - w/o giving any notice, just walked out in the middle of the day -- and remember thinking that there was no way I wanted profits from my labor financing the lifestyle of this sociopath and her owner friend.

I just put someone on Ignore here (on a different thread) when he insinuated that those who work low-wage jobs deserve their fate because they don't look for anything better.

sinkingfeeling

(51,279 posts)
9. I still have a hard time accepting that people have no empathy for others.
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:34 AM
Jul 2012

I'm an atheist and can't conceive of acting like those people.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
10. Every time they see anything that can tug at the heart...
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 02:53 PM
Jul 2012

...they claim it's a trick. It's staged. She's on the Obama payroll. Don't believe it.

Then it goes from that to wanting to "expose her fraud" and claiming she never even HAD a sister.

Mind you,....some of these people believe wrestling is real....

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