Chrissy From Three's Company Pens Error-Riddled WSJ Op-ed Calling Obamacare a Socialist Ponzi Scheme

[DonViejo]

By Josh Voorhees

Actress and Thighmaster spokeswoman Suzanne Somers penned a 535-word op-ed for the "Wall Street Journal" yesterday, dubbing Obamacare "socialized medicine" and "a greater Ponzi scheme than that pulled off by Bernie Madoff." One day later and the piece already has more than 100 words worth of "corrections and amplifications":

An earlier version of this post contained a quotation attributed to Lenin (“Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state”) that has been widely disputed. And it included a quotation attributed to Churchill (“Control your citizens’ health care and you control your citizens“) that the Journal has been unable to confirm.

Also, the cover of a Maclean’s magazine issue in 2008 showed a picture of a dog on an examining table with the headline “Your Dog Can Get Better Health Care Than You.” An earlier version of this post incorrectly said the photo showed and headline referred to a horse.

Setting those corrections aside, the rest of the op-ed is nearly as flimsy. Somers, best known for her role as Chrissy on Three's Company, builds her argument on a shaky foundation that is based largely on questionable anecdotes from her husband's side of the family and things she's seen on TV or read in old magazines. A sampling of her main evidence that Obamacare is a socialist Ponzi scheme:

full article:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/10/29/suzanne_somers_obamacare_op_ed_chrissi_from_three_s_company_pens_wsj_op.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

[monmouth3]

1. The blonde goes deep with this one..nt

[bigdarryl]

2. Coming from a rich woman who's never struggled in her life.

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/suzanne-somers-net-worth/ She can kiss my ass

[lillypaddle]

7. I believe she had breast cancer at one time n/t

[sharp_stick]

3. She's some kind of medical

peddler of bullshit home remedies for cancer too isn't she?

[longship]

4. Says the woman who nearly killed herself with bioidentical hormones.

She was taking them (and advocating that others do too). They are steroid analogs which shut down her immune system. She got an opportunistic fungal infection and had to go to the ER. She could have easily died from it.

Of course, according to SS, it was the doctors' fault.

A mind untroubled by thought.

[arcane1]

5. Conservatives really scrape the bottom of the barrel, don't they? No A-listers?

Sadly, their followers have proven to be stupid enough to believe something just because an actor says it. Can you say "Reagan"?

[DURHAM D]

6. Will the next "expert" to weigh in be Susan Powter?

[hamsterjill]

10. I want to hear from Richard Simmons!!!

Seriously, at least he has a background in trying to promote good health! Sweatin' to the Oldies, etc.

The real question that I have is WHY the WSJ would agree to publish the Suzanne Somers op-ed!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. This shocks me. She always seemed so cool and into alternative meds and natural

estrogen, etc. why would she do this? she'll alienate lots of people who might have bought her books

[Myrina]

13. I know alot of TeaNutters who are into natural/alternative health ...

.... the only thing I can think of is that it aligns - in a wierd way - with their religious/anti-science fundamentalism.

[struggle4progress]

9. I prefer to get all my political analysis from TV personalities! If you can't trust Thighmaster,

who can you trust?

[Always Randy]

11. What would William F. Buckley say

my God ---what ever happened to the real conservatives that were somewhat articulate----old Bill ---for God, for Country --For Yale

[Myrina]

12. Why is anyone even listening to her?

Miss Thighmaster? Really?

[Arkana]

14. I suppose Suzanne Somers would know--she's the creator of more scams

than Amway and Fuller Brush combined.