I thought Brendan Kiley was the one who reported on theater and stuff like that?

Why don't they just start putting Obama lawn jockeys in thier yard. That would be crystal clear.

wonder where they got those whips?.....and i wonder if they stole that "walker" from a homeless vet?

oh and....get a job you fucking hippies!

It's like this country was just bursting for the chance to publicly make racists jokes and display Nazi paraphernalia... AND NOW IT'S OKAY TO DO IT! WE DON'T HAVE TO HIDE IT ANYMORE!

@5,
Well, the woman IS saying "please don't whip me no more mastuh" in that slave-like accent. I don't really understand that. I don't get the ball-and-chain around the ankle either.

I think these fringe loonies lost their message long, long ago and now just want attention any way they can get it.

@3,
Interesting question.

What happens right now if someone on medicare/medicaid/veteran health ins. has to go on vegetative life support? I think they keep them on as long as the family requests and/or living will states, right?

Anyone know the cost per day is to keep someone on support like that?

(btw, I'm in favor of a gov't, universal health plan although I know you aren't JF... but a good question in any case).

In Jim Crow America racism was a lot more clear and would hold up to some kind of hateful logic. Now racism gets stuffed and denied so it comes out in absurd, twisted outbursts that don't hold up to the kind of logical examination you’re giving it. We all know lynching is wrong and the intent is clear, this theater is bizarre and I could only guess the intent by going to the source of this YouTube clip. I think it’s real and can only fathom the intent and content by reading my gut.

They'll continue to pay for the life-support until the person dies. Humans can not live indefinately on life support. Our bodies have to move around in order to function. The medical folk try to combat this by turning the person over and giving them 'physical therapy', but it is inevitable that the organs will break down. Usually this happens in a matter of weeks - the cases you hear of about people being in comas for 7+ years are exceptions, not the rule.

I know this because my mom was in a permanent vegetative state at a time before living wills. Despite her stated wish not to be placed on life support, she was placed on a ventilator. When her kidneys failed she was given dialysis. When other organs failed they gave her medications to supplement the organs functions. After 6 weeks of this toture she finally died of heart failure.

I think if people who want to be treated no matter what knew what a hell it was they'd change their minds.

@3
If there's a living will it takes precedence as the last known will of the patient. If there's no living will the next of kin's preference takes precedence (under the expectation that they know the will of the comatose person better than anyone else). If there's no living will and no next of kin they pretty much have to keep them on life support for as long as they survive though I don't know if they have to go to exceptional measures to keep them alive aside from the life support.

That's the rule now on government plans, that will be the rule on future government plans and that's the rule for most, if not all, private insurance plans now. It's also the rule in most hospitals regardless of insurance.

At least get a thin person in a well fitting suit to play Obama if you can't find a single black person willing to be in your awful video.

Urgutha @7: That would be a baby. I'm guessing on it's umbilical cord. 'Cuz they classy like that...

#14 "...scholars of violence..."

Hey, leave us out of this.

If only the old guy was the late Strom Thurmond...or even Dick Cheney.