Posted on 11/06/2013 7:28:52 AM PST by moneyrunner
The entire ObamaCare debacle is really the product of the MSM (Main Stream Media.)
They sold the public the fable that there was a health care crisis that need solving.
They created the narrative that uninsured people don't get health care.
They told their audience that people who opposed ObamaCare wanted poor people to die.
They convinced their readers that the government really was capable of managing the health care of 300+ million people.
They used their megaphone to convince their viewers that Republicans were waging a war on women, that Paul Ryan wanted to push their grandmothers off a cliff. They demonized the Tea Party as racist, redneck terrorists.
They pushed our warnings about flaws in ObamaCare down the "memory hole."
They touted the superlative credentials of the people designing and implementing ObamaCare.
In the words of Matthew Yglesias before the rollout: "I’ve got a new column up about the White House’s plans for the rollout of the Obamacare exchanges and I wanted to once again take the opportunity to lay down a marker and say once again that Obamacare implementation is going to be a huge political success."
But Yglesias was just one of thousands of MSM voices throughout the country.
They used their megaphone to amplify Obama's lie that if you like your insurance and your doctor you could keep both, plus you would save $2500 under ObamaCare.
You never saw it coming because the MSM hid the truth from you while Obama was "cooling the mark." The "mark" is you and the MSM is laughing at you behind your back for being a fool, while telling you to your face that your problems are the fault of the people who tried to tell the truth.
They are telling you that the insurance you wanted to keep was a scam. That you are too stupid to make your own choices. That you really don't want the doctor you have been seeing for years and they will choose your doctor, and hospital and treatment for you. And you'll like it because they know what's best.
Don't blame the Democrats, ObamaCare was brought to you by the MSM, from the editors at the NY Times down to the local fishwrap in Podunk City. If you really want to get mad at someone, don't shake your fist at someone in Washington DC, organize a rally at your local media outlet.
LOL, no! The MSM is the mouth piece (aka propaganda arm) of the dem party. It where they let you know what their agenda is. Does the MSM bear considerable blame? Certainly...but they were definitely NOT the prime movers.
and the AARP
They would just as soon slit their own wrists as betray him. Because thats exactly what they'd be doing.
The Lamestream Media are the official mouthpiece of the DemocRAT party. They are the official campaign advertisers of the RATs! Yes, they sold America this crap sandwich but the DemocRATs own this demon because they voted for it before even reading what was in it!
Media = RATS
They are just the propaganda wing of the party. Commie’s have wanted to control medicine for 100 years, and the media is simply part of the rat party.
DNC-MSM....’all samey, you savvy?’
Remember Steve McQueen... ‘Sand Pebbles’
‘Main steam stop valve..all samey, you savvy?’
Ha!
I for one blame the media. They are supposed to be the oversight of politicians for the American people. They are given protections under the constitution to exercise that right.
If they are in collusion with the government, they are equal in the blame. What makes it worse is by being in collusion, they’ve given the government license to lie, cheat and steal with impunity.
If you are held accountable for your lie, you won’t lie.
Disagree. Going into the mid-term elections, the mantra should be:
The Universal “Free” Stuff Political Party has two wings: Democrat and RINO. Their motto is: “It makes no difference who you vote for, just get out and vote! A vote for one is a vote for all.”
The Democrat’s and the Democrat’s Republicans (=RINO) such as Boehner and McConnell love to re-distribute wealth.
(Well, only if it is YOUR wealth).
As long as we tolerate the RINO Party, we will continue to deserve the two-headed monster of the “Free” Stuff Re-Distribution Party.
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‘Re-Distribution of Wealth’ satisfies the Obama Rule: Everybody gets a fair shot, except for the Middle Class, of course.
Obama knows that he must take a Society, (such as the former USA), that has rejected the European idea of “Class,” and erect “Classes” so that he can systematically destroy each one of them.
The Divide and Conquer, Obamacare Insurance Mandatory Tax Law is the ideal vehicle to destroy the Middle Class.
With that increased Mandatory Income Obama can then buy the votes of the alien invaders from Mexico, the unemployed, and those that want to be retired by age 40.
Obama promised everyone a tax rebate of $500 during his Campaign of 2008.
Now he wants to make the USA a forever Democrat Communist Utopia where money will be taken from those with ability, and freely given to those with needs.
BTW, have you ever heard of a poor person who did NOT have a lot of “needs?”
Obama has thus found the Mother Lode of paid-for voters!
BTW, BTW, all of this will continue to be accomplished due in large part to the willing, loyal help of our sorry Congressional RINOs who have never comprehended that we are TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY !
Vote democrat they sign blank contracts after all it’s how we got Obamacare.
Agreed. FWIW, the term “Re-Distribution” is a communist contrivance. The image is that somehow that wealth was unjustly “distributed” and must be redistributed justly.
Depressingly true.
“The MSM is the mouth piece (aka propaganda arm) of the dem party.”
And there isn’t a damn thing we can do about it, now.
The millenials have been programmed from birth by the Media with the “EVIL REPUBLICANS!!” meme, in TV shows, in movies, in fraudulent boiler-room Social Media posts, etc.
Every banker, in every movie they have ever seen, is an “evil Republican Conservative”, despite supporting and financing Dems in real-life.
In every movie and TV show they have seen, all Christians are crazy, or hypocrites.
In every movie they see, the cute government geek comes riding to the rescue against the evil Industrialists.
This has been happening for as long as I can remember.
No other player had a bigger impact on the ObamaCare issue than National Right To Life.
Without their blackmailing key Republicans on the important abortion issue vote, ObamaCare would have never made it into law,
Remember National Right To Life is why we have ObamaCare today.
The entire ObamaCare debacle is really the product of the MSM (Main Stream Media.)True, but the nomenclature being used is unnecessarily vague. The "Main Stream Media” is actually wire service journalism - by which I mean, not merely the AP and its competitors but also the members of the AP, who write for a local paper but who hope to write stories that will go national. Wire services naturally tend to homogenize journalism. Journalists claim to be objective and, with the monopoly of the wire services (read, "the AP and the seven dwarfs”) promoting conformity in lieu of actual objectivity, they can get away with the con.They sold the public the fable that there was a health care crisis that need solving.
Admirable as it may be to seriously attempt to be objective, claiming actually to be objective is illegitimate. For the simple reason that when they use the word “objective” they use the word in a sense which cannot be logically distinguished from the ancient Sophists’ claim of superior wisdom. The argument is that if they are objective (wise) and you don’t even claim to be, obviously you have no standing to question their statements. It is a specious claim of authority.
By empowering journalists by crippling dissenting viewpoints within journalism, the wire services simply amplify the natural tendency of the reporter to be a critic, and the natural tendency of the critic to exaggerate the virtue of criticism (i.e., second guessing) at the expense of the proper credit due to “the man who is actually in the arena.”
All socialists start out as critics, but when they attain power they evade responsibility for their results by emphasizing their intentions. They are good at criticizing “the man who is actually in the arena,” and they are good at criticizing people who say “I told you so,” when their nostrums - which violate common sense by seperating responsibility from authority - inevitably do more harm and little good. Socialists lust for authority but absolutely reject responsibility - “the buck never got here."
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