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Obamacare’s $200 million propaganda campaign revealed
The Washington Examiner ^ | April 12, 2011 | Conn Carroll, associate editor

Posted on 04/12/2011 10:54:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Judicial Watch has just posted the bounty from their latest Freedom of Information request, this time targeting the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “education” campaign for Obamacare. The documents include a Acquisition Plan entitled, “Independent Government Cost Estimate,” that sets a $200 million spending limit for televisions, radio, print and online communications.

The Ogilvy Group appears to be a big winner of HHS directed tax dollars collecting $4 million just for the creation of Healthcare.gov and its sister Spanish language site. A “Statement of Work” in the documents reads:

Health and program-related messages are processed by the target audience according to a particular reality, which he or she experiences. Attitudes, feelings, values, needs, desires, behaviors and beliefs all play a part in the individual’s decision to accept information and make a behavioral change. It is by understanding the importance of these characteristics that health and program-related messages can be targeted to the beneficiary in effective ways.

“Health and program-related message” designed to “make a behavioral change” in individuals. If this isn’t taxpayer paid for propaganda, what is?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: congress; democrats; healthcare; obama; obamacare
'We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it...' Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
1 posted on 04/12/2011 10:54:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, goodie...we get to pay for the PROPAgANDA they are feeding us....


2 posted on 04/12/2011 10:56:42 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Unlike the West, the Islamic world is serious.)
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To: goodnesswins

Also of importance is the fact that the pro-communist Fenton Communications group was one of the bidders on this contract. Their record of supporting Castro, the Sandinistas and other marxist guerrilla movements and governments has not been well publicized by the mainstream media, or else downplayed to the point of being meaningless.

Judicial Watch should look into and expose this group, with the help of the Capital Research Center, Discoverthenetwork.org, keywiki.org, and Steve Powell’s “Covert Cadre” book, among others.


3 posted on 04/12/2011 11:30:35 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks Andy Griffith, you twisted old bastard!


4 posted on 04/12/2011 11:38:51 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: goodnesswins

We’re paying for our own brainwashing...

Our country has gone over the cliff.


5 posted on 04/13/2011 12:19:55 AM PDT by Aria ( "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Isn’t taxpayer funded propaganda illegal?


6 posted on 04/13/2011 12:21:27 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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'We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it...' Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

That will go down in history as a perfect expression of the open brazenness of liberal tyranny. In the future, people will quote that and ask how people couldn't see what it meant. What a total monster she is - as well as a perfect representation of her lockstep, sadistic, moronic and vicious constituency of a hundred thousand "Hillary Hags."

Nancy Pelosi is the Ultimate Kapo.


7 posted on 04/13/2011 1:13:31 AM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: Talisker

The fact the reporters didn’t start a riot there and then will be noted as well by future historians.


8 posted on 04/13/2011 2:01:53 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bump


9 posted on 04/13/2011 2:16:15 AM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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To: wiggen

“The fact the reporters didn’t start a riot there and then will be noted as well by future historians.”

History is written by the winners.


10 posted on 04/13/2011 3:43:58 AM PDT by Soul of the South (When times are tough the tough get going.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; M. Espinola; Quix
The Mystery of Barack Obama Continues

This is a must read !

11 posted on 04/13/2011 4:43:17 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Ecclesiastes 5:10 - 20)
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To: ex-Texan

TRAITOROUS FABRICATED BUSTARD.


12 posted on 04/13/2011 5:25:00 AM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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