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.

[2001convSVT]

Yep that is a central theme of the adminastration, to take advantage of those less fortunate and to make everyone else less fortunate as well.

[dfwgator]

Wow! I thought he had died.

Just his brain.

[Patsygirl]

Yeah, I thought he was dead too. What’s going on here?

[BykrBayb]

The old ignorant fart needs to have his head examined.

By a proctologist.

[dragnet2]

Send Andy back to Mayberry, North Carolina.

Barney for Sheriff!

[beaversmom]

Sorry to hear Sheriff Taylor went Commie :(

[albie]

Out of hundreds of episodes (and I’ve seen every one) I can think of only one with a black person. A woman, in the background, in an episode where Barney captures an escaped con (totally by accident) on Main St. The con says, “I’m gonna get you deputy”. That’s the ONLY one! She must’ve crossed the tracks for groceries at “Fred’s Market”.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[trisham]

I’ve lost all respect for him and Ron Howard.

[katana]

So he's reprising his first big (just being his natural self) role, the phony hillbilly huckster and demagogue from A Face in the Crowd. Once a con man always a con man.

[DemforBush]

Yes! I *love* that movie!

I wonder if Vitajex will be covered by Obamacare?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ4nqphP21k

:-)

[boop]

I think Jim Nabors is a republican, so there’s ONE person from that show with sense.

[Gene Eric]

>> Obama’s health care law to seniors in a cable television ad paid for by Medicare.

What about equal time for opposing views? We’re talking about tax dollars, right?

[1riot1ranger]

Great Pic. I was about to post that A Face in the Crowd is the best pic Andy ever made and so relevant. Used to watch it during the Clinton years....

[wideawake]

Thank you. It's fascinating that such a dedicated liberal, who had a level of creative control on his show that was the envy of most other TV stars, would deliberately exclude African-American actors from his set.

[george76]

Medicare says the national ad is not political

[Candor7]

Mediare is political. You can't get service from them unless you show that you are an Obama voter.Its "rationing" of health care.

[PATRIOT1876]

WOW!

Years of being a wholesome character ruined by Leftist garbage.

Goober is smarter....

[lowbridge]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu8q0EU4b9w

[donna]

Great clip. Have you seen this:

Brad Paisley With Andy Griffith - Waitin’ On A Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-C-IbkuNWs