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\u201cThey have voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands, but half the people who are euthanized every year, and it\u2019s 10 percent of all deaths, half of those people are euthanized involuntarily in hospitals, because they are older and sick,\u201d Santorum said. \u201cSo elderly people in the Netherlands don\u2019t go to the hospital. They go to another country. Because they\u2019re afraid because of budget purposes they will not come out of that hospital if they go in with sickness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On Thursday, Dutch Member of Parliament Frans Timmermans, a leading member of the opposition left-leaning Labor Party in The Hague, blasted his government\u2019s silence.<\/p>\n
He wrote in a post on his Facebook page that he wanted Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal to rebuke Santorum for his \u201cscandalous accusations,\u201d The Times reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis cannot be allowed to rest,\u201d he wrote, according to The Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And how does MSNBC handle this? By refusing to look up the facts themselves! Instead, they left that to Factcheck.org.<\/p>\n
FactCheck.org<\/strong>, a nonpartisan project that monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by U.S. politicians, said <\/strong>Santorum \u201cgrossly mischaracterized\u201d euthanasia practices in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
It said<\/strong> the former Pennsylvania senator overstated the rate of euthanasia. Government statistics show euthanasia is climbing but represented only 2.3 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2010, it said<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
FactCheck.org said<\/strong> Santorum\u2019s claims that the elderly are being killed against their will and wear \u201cdo not euthanize me\u201d bracelets are false.<\/p>\n
Dutch euthanasia review boards found nine cases in 2010 where doctors \u201chad not acted in accordance with the due care criteria,\u201d mostly for how the procedure was performed \u2014 not because it was against anyone\u2019s will, FactCheck.org said<\/strong>. It added that the Dutch government and medical association say no such \u201cDon\u2019t euthanize me\u201d bracelets exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A perfect little \"he said,
she<\/strike> they said\" story: just the way our cowardly spineless press likes em. MSNBC gets to avoid appearing partisan by never directly challenging the words of a Republican. They just play neutral observer, even-handedly giving each side of the story a chance to state their case. They don't even bother to tell you which side they suspect might be right. They just report the controversy and let readers figure it out for themselves. Bunch of fucking cowards. <\/p>\nIf they would just point out when people are flat-out lying about easily-verifiable facts, there would be no need for anything like Factcheck.org, and the country would a whole lot smarter. Hell, politicians and their supporters might even get used to the idea that they can't lie about simple facts. And then the media could go back to sleep for a few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some say the Earth is round, but others disagree. We'll cover the controversy later on MSNBC! MSNBC.com reports that some members of the Dutch government are upset at how that piece of shit Santorum lied about euthanasia in the Netherlands. \u201cThey have voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands, but half the people who are euthanized every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}