NewsReal Sunday: Is Ted Kennedy Spending the Afterlife Concerned About Our Health Care? « NewsReal Blog: "It was so thoughtful for much of the news media to use the death of Ted Kennedy to promote Obamacare. Nothing is more respectful to the dead than to use the end of their life as propaganda to push for leftist policies. It would be comical if it wasn’t so sad that cable news shows spent the middle part of this week talking about the life and death of Ted Kennedy and then segueing into saying the best way to honor him is to do whatever it takes to serve up government-run healthcare.
Not surprisingly, the worst perpetrator of this exploitation of the dead came from Keith Olbermann. On Wednesday, August 26, he devoted about five minutes to looking back on Kennedy’s life and then spent much of the rest of the show using the senator’s death to promote Obama and Pelosi’s health care reform. He talked about how Obama “promised Ted” that he would pass the reform before the year was out.
Olbermann questioned Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont (the only openly socialist US Senator) asking him if Kennedy’s death could be used to convince all those darned Blue Dog Democrats to get on board. Sanders thought it was a great idea, and that ultimately all Democrats would come thro"
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