I guess since Obama's spent the last month insulting surgeons and otolaryngologists, it's no surprise that Obamacare supporters would have to get a fake doctor to come as Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee questions about it. The Houston Chronicle is just catching onto a story about Obamacare's non-doctor that California conservative blogger Patterico broke last week after the Chronicle credulously publicized her question as "from a physician."
Here's the Chron's belated take:
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on Thursday distanced herself from a University of Houston graduate student and Texas Obama delegate who falsely identified herself as a pediatric physician at the congresswoman's health care reform town hall meeting this week.
"I've never met her," Jackson Lee said as she prepared to take questions from doctors and other health care workers in a session at St. Joseph Medical Center.
Roxana Mayer, who warmly embraced Jackson Lee at the close of Tuesday's session at a Fifth Ward community center, had spoken in favor of the president's health care package. The Texas Medical Board, which oversees doctors in Texas, has no record of Mayer, 31, holding a physician's license.
In a West Coast political blog, Patterico's Pontifications, Mayer admitted she is not a doctor.
When queried by the Houston Chronicle if she held a medical license outside Texas, she responded via e-mail: "If my initial statement to the Houston Chronicle can not be substantiated, then I understand your responsibility to omit it."
Mayer, who was invited to the event by a radical Obama organizer (remember the Texas Obama campaign office with a Che flag in the background? Maria Isabel's office), engaged in a long e-mail back-and-forth with Patterico this week, admitting she was not what she claimed to be at the town hall:
I asked:
If I understand what's going on here, you're not a doctor, but you play one at town hall meetings.
Is that about it?
P
And she replied:
Do you mean play a doctor like you play a journalist? Then the answer is no. But who knows, that was only my first town hall meeting-even though I was a delegate. If I go to another one, which I seriously doubt because my husband is already extremely annoyed, then maybe I'll play a plumber.
Best,
She was also a state Obama delegate, and not from Jackson-Lee's district, both facts which the Chronicle reporter apparently knew and did not include in her original story.
I guess the media finds some astroturf more astroturfy than others.
