Posted on 01/31/2014 5:19:58 AM PST by TurboZamboni
Facing a $78 million budget shortfall, Californias ObamaCare exchange has spent $1.37 million to fund an outreach video featuring exercise guru Richard Simmons gyrating on the floor and hugging a contortionist who is kneeling with his buttocks in the air.
The Tell a Friend Get Covered campaign by Covered California features other celebrities Olivia Wilde, comic Billy Eirchner, Fran Drescher and Tatyana Ali. The centerpiece of the effort was an eight-hour live web stream that ran on Jan. 16.
None of the celebrities were paid for their work, Covered California said.
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Whoever has stupid, expensive ideas such as this should be fired. This is why no one respects government any more.
It’s not like California is broke or anything.
Advertising the free sex changes?
The “celebrities” worked for free, but the video still cost $1.37 million. How that that happen?
“Get Covered” brings on images condoms and nasty STDs. People never think through these slogans.
At first glance I thought it said “tell a friend- get tested”
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That was the oddest video. Besides the prancing and mincing homos, the woman kept chanting get covered or some such. It was just weird and it cost $1.37 million, obviously went to friends of Odinga.
Still not as good as the Chevy Volt Dancers.
youtube that bizzare fustercluck some time.(paid for by us)
Foxnews comments were great. Cringe-inducing, too funny.
Although it looks more like a "Saturday Night Live" skit, the dance routine that was performed on the Volt display at the Los Angeles Auto Show is all too real. Captured by a visitor who uploaded the video to YouTube, three females wearing puffy shirts and the aforementioned break dancer, who also plays air guitar, shake just about everything on their bodies for the duration of the song. Often out of sync. Reportedly, the cringe-inducing interpretation of an electric-powered future took place every hour during the ten days of the show.
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