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Rudeness reigns in health-care debate
by Mark Silva
"You lie!''
"I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg.''
Is everyone getting all "wee-weed up?"
Or just plain "un-American?"
They're finger-biting!
It's "rude,'' is what it is -- the health-care debate.
Or, at least, that's the way most Americans paying attention say they see it.
"Most Americans say the tone of the debate has been negative,'' Andy Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, reports today.
Pew's News Interest Index survey, conducted Sept. 11-14 among 1,003 adults, found 53 percent saying the tone of the debate over health care reform has been generally rude and disrespectful -- just three in ten see it as generally polite and respectful.
Who are the offenders?
"Among those who say the debate has been rude and disrespectful, most believe that opponents of the health care legislation under consideration are to blame,'' Kohut reports. "By a 59 percent to 17 percent margin, more blame opponents than supporters of the legislation; 17 percent volunteer that both groups are to blame.''
Among Democrats who view the debate as rude, 85 perccent blame opponents of health care legislation. By contrast, 18 percent of the Republicans put the blame on opponents, while many more (45 percent) say supporters are to blame.
What do you say? In printable form, please.
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