Absurd lie from a guy on C-span this morning, worth mention I think
Sometime early in the second hour this morning a fellow called into the Washington Journal from Montana. He was a Republican and was making his rant about the Affordable Care Act, which he of course called Obamacare. During his tirade he made a statement that was patently false, and he got away with it unchallenged.
What he said was that the word "thimmitude" (sic) was used on page 107 of the Act and that it referred to a requirement for submissive surrender to Islamic rule, and then he went ranting on and on about it as if submission to Islam was the entire purpose of the Law..
I have a reasonably well rounded vocabulary and have done crossword puzzles for decades, if that was a word I'd have run across it by now, but it was a new one for me. Google came to the rescue and I found the correct spelling and something akin to a definition. The word is Dhimmitude (the word seems to have been coined in a speech given in the 1980's) and while it means essentially what the guy said. So having discovered that I decided to go to the Act and see just what it meant in context. Well, the word certainly does not exist in the section the guy indicated or anywhere else in the Act as far as I could find.
And so we have it, another Republican bit of misinformation out out into the public's view. As usual this one went unchallenged - I could not get through on the telephone and I absolutely refuse to use either Twitter or Facebook; Cspan apparently does not respond at all to E-Mails.
Anyway, if you run across this little gem anytime in the future be aware its just another pot of nonsense.
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