EDIT: Still not a proud day for America – let’s not have fist fights and bite peoples’ fingers off because of political disagreements – but the the hospital spokesperson was incorrect; so my previous headline stating that his pinky was reattached and that the procedure was paid for by Medicare was incorrect. Although, I’m betting that the visit itself, sans reattachement, was still covered by Medicare.
From TPM:
Rice’s pinky was not reattached. He went home without it last night.
So why the confusion? “This was totally my error,” Caraway-Bowman said.
The spokesperson said that on her way into work today, the nurses on the morning shift told her Rice’s story, and that his finger had been reattached. She said she fielded the AP’s call before she had a chance to verify the story on her own. And when Caraway-Bowman finally pulled Rice’s chart and talked to his doctor — ruh roh.
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ORIGINAL POST:
Not a proud moment for America.
And Mike Tyson was no where to be seen in the area. Hopefully, the biter had his rabies shots.
Our government-run healthcare system, Medicare, did its job.
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p>There are 300 million of us. I’m not going to hang my head over two idiots.
I don’t know the facts surrounding the fight itself.
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p>Yet it seems like the guy walked across the street and had something to do with provoking the fist fight. Don’t get involved with fist fights and you don’t get your finger bitten off. If this guy wasn’t an idiot, then he probably wouldn’t have wound up in a fist fight with the the other idiot in the first place.
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p>Millions of people protest passionately and vigorously without fisticuffs and cannibalism; I doubt either party were doe-eyed innocents. But I could be wrong and I don’t know the facts.
But I’ll stick by my guess.
The 30 year old “biter” crossed the street and confronted the 65 year old “bitee”. Any fisticuffs or violence has to be avoided by al parties but let’s not call a victim an idiot.
He threw two punches. I’m not defending the other guy by any means, but he’s not an innocent victim.
Given the political climate, this is potentially a very dangerous development.
Shouting, while rude and disruptive, is one thing but violence of any sort cannot be condoned by either side.
I smell hoax — “Freedom isn’t free?” Too much, too negative, too soon. Something is up.
…”nobody knows who bit off the finger, but there has been a lot of ‘stub-pointing’!”
Gotta love how the (admittedly medicated) Rice, in the same TV interview, simultaneously lauds the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and equates their sacrifice with losing the last half-inch of the pinky finger on his non-dominant hand.
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p>Freedom may not be free, but martyrdom sure comes cheap for the wingnuts these days.