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Louise Slaughter (D-NY) won the Health Summit's Ludicrous Anecdote Award for her tale of a constituent wearing her dead sister's dentures (via Gateway Pundit) : Horror: Lib Dem Claims Her Constituent Wore Dead Sister's Teeth

“You will not believe this and I know you won’t, but it’s true. Her sister died. This poor woman had no dentures. She wore her dead sister’s teeth, which of course were uncomfortable and did not fit.”

As a matter of fact, I don't believe this. Progressives love to use this sort of legislation-by-anecdote because (1) they are designed to guilt trip wavering moderates and (2) they are impossible to verify. Slaughter knows she can make this crazy claim because no one in the media is going to make an effort to find out if there really is a woman out there wearing her dead sister's dentures. And, if the media did learn the story was bogus, who cares? The point isn't to tell the truth; it's to get a sob-story on the national news. As far as Slaughter is concerned, it's Mission Accomplished. Dems are always beating conservatives over the head for failing to be as intelligent and compassionate as they are. But something like this makes you realize how low-grade so much of leftist political discourse really is.

Pitiful, just pitiful.

UPDATE: Slaughter is also responsible for attempting to insert anti-torture language into an intelligence (guffaw!) bill. The bill has since been pulled

reporters in the Capitol rushed right past Rangel to ask House Democratic leaders about a critical intelligence bill that had just been pulled over a torture provision. The language had been inserted in defiance of leadership by House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.).