First she tweeted this:
Please see the article linked below. To the "defenders of the truth" in the lamestream media, I'm not sayin',... http://t.co/asummpaDtMWhich links to an article from the Right Wing Investors.com that gleefully proclaims that Palin was right, and every one else was wrong. And I believe it signs off with "Nanny, nanny, boo boo."
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) August 10, 2013
Then later she tweeted this:
See the link below. Here’s a shout out to an intelligent, independent Texan who uses her cowgirl smarts to point... http://t.co/puVbMWtFW8That linked to the Sea O'Pee where the geriatric party is in full swing. (Well full stagger anyway, but they are elderly and incontinent so what do you expect?)
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) August 10, 2013
Over there they are essentially using gifs to mock everybody who criticized Palin, including the Republican party, and handing out "she told you so's" to virtually everybody on Palin's old enemies list.
Which nowadays is everybody.
They ended the post with this gif.
As was pointed out here in the comments section, Palin actually has NOT right about death panels. which Media Matters also points out quite effectively:
Sarah Palin was not right. Sarah Palin was never right. And The Hill certainly shouldn't be giving the impression that Palin's "death panel" nonsense has somehow been vindicated.
Palin's first deployment of "death panel" in August 2009 was in reference to the Advanced Care Planning provision of the House health care bill, and she said it would "decide" whether senior citizens and the disabled were "worthy of health care." This was a lie, and Palin got called out on it, earning herself Politifact's "Lie of the Year" award.
In December of 2009, Palin switched it up and tried claiming that IPAB (which originated in the Senate's health care bill) was what she was talking about all along and that "this type of rationing" was "precisely what I meant when I used that metaphor." This was also a lie; the law does not allow for the IPAB to make "any recommendation to ration health care... or otherwise restrict benefits or modify eligibility criteria."
Everything Sarah Palin has said about "death panels" and the health care law has been wrong. The whole "death panel" fiasco is a case study in how ignorant and inflammatory garbage can derail an important policy debate. And The Hill should know better than to treat it as anything but that.
There, that clears things up.
And hear is what News Corpse had to say as well:
If not reading the law makes you an incompetent buffoon, then Palin is at the head of her class. This is what the law actually says about the Independent Advisory Board about which Palin and Bolling were talking:
“The proposal shall not include any recommendation to ration health care.”
Of course Palin and her people will never read any of this, nor will anyone who wants to make hay about this in order to attack Obamacare once again. And it is just murky enough that the average GOP voter will take it as gospel that Palin was right and use that to attack all their friends and family members on Facebook and Twitter who dared to ridicule her back in 2009.
Oh joy.
At this point I think it is imperative that Politifact, the site that labeled Palin's claim as The Lie of the Year back in 2009, to once again weigh in and tell the people who are confused about this issue why Palin is still wrong and why she deserved that award, and our continued derision.
Until then these people are gong to be insufferable.