{"id":6023,"date":"2009-08-24T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T07:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/08\/betsy-mccaughey-resigns-after-humiliating-herself-in-jon-stewart%e2%80%99s-show\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T00:15:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T07:15:12","slug":"betsy-mccaughey-resigns-after-humiliating-herself-in-jon-stewart%e2%80%99s-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/08\/betsy-mccaughey-resigns-after-humiliating-herself-in-jon-stewart%e2%80%99s-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Betsy McCaughey Resigns After Humiliating Herself In Jon Stewart\u2019s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/08\/1ef5e24efb.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"1ef5e24efb.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.thaindian.com\/newsportal\/world\/betsy-mccaughey-resigns-after-humiliating-herself-in-jon-stewarts-show_100236356.html\">\n<p>According to the suggested reports, the alleged \u201cdeath panel\u201d originator and former lieutenant governor of New York and adjunct fellow of the Houston Institute, Betsy McCoughey has reportedly resigned from her post after suffering ample amount of humiliation in the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, who was well informed and prepared reportedly demonstrated McCaughey\u2019s entire foothold in the health care reform to be \u201cas solid as Swiss cheese\u201d. Obama\u2019s health care reform has recently triggered a wide array of controversies off late.<\/p>\n<p>Betsy McCaughey who has also been termed as the serial mis-informer wrongly claimed in the Stewart show that the Page 432 of the House Health Care Reform Bill would make end-of-life counseling \u201cmandatory\u201d after backtracking from her previous statement that stated Page 425 would provide for \u201cmandatory\u201d end-of-life counseling. She had also stated that a provision on that page \u201cpenalizes doctors who do not follow or adhere the policies and rules that is set by the government.<\/p>\n<p>The host of the show Jon Stewart noted that the words depicted by McCaughey does not point at making end-of-life counseling mandatory and does not \u201cpenalize\u201d doctors but it rather provides incentives for the doctors on the terms of providing \u201cdata on quality measures\u201d for end-of-life care.<\/p>\n<p>After discovering that she has been made a subject of ridicule after her infamous appearance on \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d, McCaughey reportedly stepped down from her position as the Director of Cantel Medical Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Host Jon Stewart was quite aggressive on his stance thereby proving McCaughey a complete mis-informer. McCaughey has been billed as the creator of the \u201cdeath panel\u201d myth.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thaindian.com\/newsportal\/world\/betsy-mccaughey-resigns-after-humiliating-herself-in-jon-stewarts-show_100236356.html\" ><cite>Betsy McCaughey Resigns After Humiliating Herself In Jon Stewart\u2019s Show<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betsy McCaughey who has also been termed as the serial mis-informer wrongly claimed in the Stewart show that the Page 432 of the House Health Care Reform Bill would make end-of-life counseling \u201cmandatory\u201d after backtracking from her previous statement that stated Page 425 would provide for \u201cmandatory\u201d end-of-life counseling. &#8230;  The host of the show Jon Stewart noted that the words depicted by McCaughey does not point at making end-of-life counseling mandatory and does not \u201cpenalize\u201d doctors but it rather provides incentives for the doctors on the terms of providing \u201cdata on quality measures\u201d for end-of-life care.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1z9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}