Journalism

Let me comment first that the biggest topic going on inside Higgins’ fundraiser last night as it related to the protesters was to mock and laugh at the guy with the hammer & sickle with a line crossed out.

Secondly, I want to thank Jerry Zremski for writing a news report about the health care debate and local congresspeople’s opinions about holding town halls where, when someone brought up a falsehood about health insurance reform, Zremski came right out and said so.

In fact, videos of Massa’s recent health care town hall in Mendon, near Rochester, show a doctor angrily arguing that the bill would mandate euthanasia for the elderly — even though it does no such thing.

Those videos also show the first-year lawmaker unable to placate a man who insists that the health care bill includes federal funding for abortion, or, in the man’s words, “killing babies.”

Massa rightly insists that it doesn’t — stressing that there’s already a federal law in place banning the use of federal funds for abortion.

Yet the man keeps challenging Massa, who calmly repeats his point and says: “I don’t know how else to say it to you, sir.”

Thank you Jerry Zremski, and thank you Buffalo News.