The feature story on the CNN page right now is “Claims about health care keep coming.” Translation: people coming up with even more insane claims about health care reform. But here’s the blurb on the front page …
A woman asked Rep. Allen Boyd at a health care town hall if reform would force people to let the government access their bank accounts. “That’s not true,” the Florida Democrat responded. “When someone sends you something on the Internet that sounds crazy, how about just checking it a little bit?” The CNN Truth Squad has debunked that rumor. Yet other false claims keep coming up.
Now, the backstory here is that Allen Boyd, a very conservative Democrat from Florida, was probably the single most in the tank Dem for Social Security privatization back in 2005. So when Allen Boyd gets exasperated knocking down the crazy, you know things have gotten to a pretty sorry pass.
For a little background, here’s Zack Roth’s piece from last week knocking down this bank account lie.
