"Once upon a time, there was an evil hospital in Ohio......"
It's getting pretty hard to take a day off around here. Good old Hillary Clinton keeps feeding ink into the old pen as they used to say. Fresh on the heels of her Big Adventure in Bosnia proving to be a hoax, now it turns out that one of the key parts of her stump speech is also a bunch of hooey.
As part of her talk on the need for universal health care coverage, Hillary has, for the last few weeks, been recounting the sad story of a woman in Ohio who got pregnant, had no insurance, went to a hospital, was turned away when she was unable to pay $100, and then miscarried and later died. Hillary had heard this story through hearsay and never took the time to check her facts, following in the footsteps of ace reporters Dan Rather and Rita Cosby.
Though she never mentioned the hospital by name, it was determined that the place in question was O'Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. Once the hospital got wind of the story, they asked the Clinton campaign to please stop spreading mis-information. According to the hospital, the woman in question, Trina Brechtel, did indeed have insurance and was not turned away. She did, in fact, later miscarry at another hospital, 2 weeks subsequent to which, she died. Further, the hospital complained that no one in the Clinton campaign had contacted them to confirm the details.
Now the Clinton campaign has announced that the story will be dropped from any future speeches.
And they will live happily ever after-until the next fabrication is revealed.
Maybe now she can tell the cautionary tale of the kid whose stomach exploded when he drank a Coke after eating Pop Rocks.
ReplyDeleteIt's true. My cousin knows the guy who was his brother's neighbor.
What are pop rocks? Never heard this one. Hopefully, Hillary hasn't either.
ReplyDeleteOh, it's an oldie but goodie, but I think that it might be unique to my generation. Pop rocks are little candies that fizzle and "pop" in your mouth. When I was a kid, everybody would talk about how the kid who was in the Life cereal commercial (You know, "Mikey likes it!") died when he ate them and drank a Coke right afterwards.
ReplyDeleteIt was one of those "totally true" stories that turns out to be nothing more than an urban legend.