Andy Griffith's new role: pitching health care law

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[AngelesCrestHighway]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Actor Andy Griffith has a new role: pitching President Barack Obama's health care law to seniors in a cable television ad paid for by Medicare. The TV star - whose role as sheriff of Mayberry made him an enduring symbol of small-town American values - tells seniors that "good things are coming" under the health care overhaul, including free preventive checkups and lower-cost prescriptions for Medicare recipients.

[caver]

I sure wish these stupid actors/musicians would keep quiet. I had always like Andy Griffith and enjoyed his shows. Now, I think he a idiot. Thanks for opening your mouth and proving it Andy.

[kevao]

I’m all in favor of pitching Obamacare.

[AuntB]

UGH! More useful idiots!

[Secret Agent Man]

“Good things are coming, you’ll get to see Jesus soon.”

/no sarc

Shame they’ve co-opted him. Perhaps they told him they wouldn’t skimp on HIS medical care (a lie of course).

[MozarkDawg]

... tells seniors that "good things are coming" under the health care overhaul, including free preventive checkups and lower-cost prescriptions for Medicare recipients.

Any old fool who falls for the baloney this old fool is trying to pass out is an old fool.

[nothingnew]

Aunt Bea is not pleased.

FMCDH(BITS)

[WKUHilltopper]

Andy Griffith got off my list when I saw him and “Dopie” pitching Obama as president in a commercial.

[SJSAMPLE]

Is he being paid?

[daler]

I was so sadly surprised to see Andy and Opie endorsing Obama during the '08 campaign.

Can't understand how two actors involved in such a wholesome, amusing, feel-good TV series could be such hardcore leftists, but Wikipedia says Griffith has been a Dem activist forever.

Opie, I'm guessing, simply got sucked into the liberal Hollywood sinkhole.

[pogo101]

Or in this particular instance, bad cracker.

[whence911]

It never ceases to amaze me when some rich guy supports anything and wants to take me along for the ride. He doesn’t have to worry about his health care.

[KosmicKitty]

MAAATTTLLLOOOCCKK!"

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[massmike]

Otis had all the brains on that show.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Now I can see where Opie got his idiocy

[Deb]

Its his CBS "Matlock" series that will hook the old timers more than the "Andy Griffith Show". The senior demo numbers were off the charts.

The joke among TV people at the time was that "Matlock" reruns ranked as high as originals because the CBS fan base of old people couldn't tell the difference.

[MCCC]

‘Say you’re going to love me’

From ‘A Face in the Crowd’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SlobJX_Fl8&feature=related

[AuntB]

“Can’t understand how two actors involved in such a wholesome, amusing, feel-good TV series could be such hardcore leftists,”

I never watched much of the show, but caught a rerun several years ago that stuck with me. Little Opie was being bad...so Andy’s solution..BRIBE him. Just a bunch of useful idiots.

[ThomasMore]

[Dem Guard]

He has beeen on medicare for decades already. And this old cogger will be the first to loose his healthcare from the
Obama healthcare Czar.