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MAObama’s Coördinated Media Blitz for Hell-th Care: Coming Soon!

By: Ausonius (Diary)  |  December 31st, 2009 at 02:38 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

You know this is coming: leftist pundits and politicians have signaled that between now and the State of the Union Address there will be another media blitz, like the failed one last summer, to convince everyone that the Hell-th Care Bill is a really, really, really good idea for America.

Like the one last summer, there will be a coördinated media extravaganza pushing some specific ideas, which the Socialists hope will counterbalance the logical objections from intelligent people. Such economic and moral objections will pale in front of the emotional appeal of the bill, they hope.

A pundit on the George Stephanopolous ABC Sunday show tipped her hand and mentioned that this blitz to sell, push, and otherwise throat-cram their liberal castor oil will be starting on January 3rd.

Look for the following claims: deficit worries will be pooh-poohed. In fact the Socialists will claim the whole deficit argument from the Republicans is an excuse to cut “aid to the poor, the elderly, and the unemployed.” Such a demand will be called “unconscionable” and “unfeeling.” In other words, the Left will again stereotype the Republicans. Plus, they will harp on the counter-argument that Republicans increased the deficit for the phony War On Terror and the unnecessary War In Iraq. Republicans, therefore, are Scrooge-ish hypocrites, who want to prevent poor and even middle-class children from receiving proper medical care.

Soros crony Roger Hickey of the Campaign for America’s Future gave an interview the day after Christmas detailing the plans to attack Republicans on the deficit-hypocrisy issue.

See:

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4596

On moral issues of abortion and euthanasia (not overt euthanasia, but greasing the slope thereto), abortions will still be allowed surreptitiously, and Section 1303(b)(3)(B) will prevent insurance companies from emphasizing this fact to customers. The Mikulski Amendment also has language whereby abortions can be called “preventive care.” Reid’s “Manager’s Amendment” does nothing to prevent assisted suicide from being paid for or to prevent rationing of critical care.

See:
http://blog.aul.org/2009/12/20/the-abortion-tax-and-other-problems-in-senator-reid’s-amendment/

But all of this will be ignored, in the leftist tradition that facts cannot be allowed to stop what feels right, and instead you will hear the opposite: the agitprop will push the BIG PRINT lie that abortions are not paid for and that “death panels” are just a ridiculous lie from Republicans and radicals. The truth in the fine print they will say is being “distorted” and “misinterpreted.”

Lather-Rinse-Repeat for a Right-Brain Blitz: America needs to care for the poor, the elderly, the unemployed, and all those less fortunate. Quibbling about deficits and believing distortions about death panels and abortion taxes are standing in the way of caring for ALL Americans!

So brace yourselves for ads from unions, Soros-groups, the Dems, and of course the usual “news interviews” on the MSM from Dem politicians and Dem “experts,” interviews which will turn into agitprop talking points for MAObama’s continuing War On America.

You can also expect the left-slanted polls to rise in favor of the plan: this will then be used as “evidence” that the Hell-th Care Bill is being accepted “as Americans learn the truth.”

Keep your minds and computers sharp, and your intention true: combat the Propaganda Plague, wherever and whenever it rises in the next weeks!

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  • Ausonius

    From the Washington Post:

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/12/obama-defends-health-bill-in-p.html

    An excerpt:

    MAObama talking to NPR:

    “Taxing Cadillac plans that don’t make people healthier, but just take money out of their pockets because they’re paying more for insurance than they need to — that’s actually a good idea and that helps bend the cost curve,” Obama told NPR’s Robert Siegel and Julie Rovner.

    The interview was part of a pre-vacation media blitz aimed in large measure at the president’s own party, which has been increasingly divided over the shape of the health-care reform legislation.

    In one-on-one conversations with media organizations, including one Tuesday with The Washington Post, Obama insisted that the final bill he will sign does not compromise much on the core principles that he said should unite the party.

    “This notion, I know, among some on the left that somehow this bill is not everything that it should be — that we still need a single-payer plan … just ignores the real human reality that this will help millions of people and end up being the most significant piece of domestic legislation at least since Medicare and maybe since Social Security,” he told NPR Wednesday.

    That message echoes his comments to The Post, in which he said that “nowhere has there been a bigger gap between the perceptions of compromise and the realities of compromise than in the health-care bill. Every single criteria for reform I put forward is in this bill.”

    He also downplayed differences between the bills produced by the congressional chambers, which he suggested are restricted to a handful of issues. “Ninety-five percent of the House bill and the Senate bill are in accord. And there are going to be some tough negotiations around the 5 percent,” he told NPR.”

    Note the blandness: nothing specific at all, just class warfare and vague promises.

  • Ausonius

    An article at NewsMax details how 13 states (as of now) will file lawsuits against MAObamaCare if the bribe to Nelson of Nebraska stays in the bill.

    The reaction from the Left is as predicted above:

    An excerpt:

    “McMaster says if the bill goes through to final approval with the benefit to Nebraska, taxpayers in the other 49 states will have to pay for it.

    House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., said the letter was a political ploy.

    “This threat stinks of partisan politics,” he said in a statement. “If Henry McMaster wants to write federal law he should run for Congress not governor.”

    Meanwhile, Nelson is taking his message on health care reform directly to his constituents. In a television ad beginning during Wednesday night’s Nebraska-Arizona Holiday Bowl football game, the Democrat says he stuck by his principles throughout the debate and doesn’t want Nebraskans to be confused on his position.

    While it’s not uncommon for states to challenge federal laws in court, one legal expert said political bluster was likely behind the letter.

    “I do think that it is some combination of the losers just complaining about the officiating, or complaining about how the game was played, in combination with trying to make the bill look as seedy and inappropriate as possible, for political purposes,” says Andy Siegel, a former University of South Carolina School of Law professor now teaching at Seattle University School of Law.”

    http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/states-lawsuit-attorneys-general/2009/12/30/id/345042

    Note how nothing about the constitutionality of the provision – or of the entire bill – is handled. Typical tactic: deflect and attack something not in the argument, or complain about the attack itself being unfair, or go ad hominem.

    Both a Dem politician and a Dem prof dancing the same tune: so predictable.

  • Ausonius

    The propaganda war has started right on time: did you know that Health Care Reform has a l r e a d y passed and is apparently law? Thus speaks New Joisy Dem Senator Menendez.

    See:

    http://newsmax.com/Politics/Dems-Brace-Voter-Backlash/2010/01/01/id/345153

    An excerpt:

    “They will spend the next 11 months spinning our health care victory into a weapon and hitting us with it. We might have the momentum now, but we must show the GOP and the pundits that we can sustain it until the 2010 elections,” said Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.”

    Why yes, anyone with an 85 I.Q. will be “spinning” the Dems’ “health care victory” into a weapon, because such a “victory” is a DISASTER for America!

    And all we have to do is quote the fine print to the public, along with reminding everyone that Congress has e x e m p t e d themselves from this marvelous plan!!! What a weapon :)

    Okay, I will be charitable and will assume that he means the “health care victory” for the Senate version, but he seems to imply that the victory for the entire bill has already happened.

    In either case, we do not need to “spin” anything: Just Quoting The BIll itself will be evidence against the Dems. The terrible result of not reading what you vote for! :)