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Celebrities who promoted ObamaCare now quiet in wake of website debacle
Fox News ^ | October 24, 2013 | Hollie McKay

Posted on 10/24/2013 10:42:48 AM PDT by EveningStar

In the heady days after the October 1 launch of the Affordable Care Act -- better known as ObamaCare -- Lady Gaga, Amy Poehler, Nina Dobrev, Rosario Dawson, Sarah Silverman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, Pearl Jam, Lance Bass, John Legend, Alyssa Milano and Kerry Washington joined the President to encourage Americans to #getcovered.

Since then, technical glitches and website snafus have so marred the ObamaCare website that the team who built it has been called to testify before Congress on Thursday. But there will be no celebrities flanking them on Capitol Hill, as the stars that helped launch the initiative are now being advised to walk away.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; aliciakeys; alyssamilano; amypoehler; celebrities; deathpanels; jenniferhudson; johnlegend; kerrywashington; ladygaga; lancebass; ninadobrev; obamacare; oliviawilde; oops; pearljam; rosariodawson; sarahsilverman; website; zerocare
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1 posted on 10/24/2013 10:42:48 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Oh well, we aren’t exactly talkin’ the sharpest knives in the drawer now, are we?


2 posted on 10/24/2013 10:44:22 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: EveningStar

They should return the checks ,LOL


3 posted on 10/24/2013 10:46:50 AM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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Hey, Lady Gaga, Amy Poehler, Nina Dobrev, Rosario Dawson, Sarah Silverman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, Pearl Jam, Lance Bass, John Legend, Alyssa Milano and Kerry Washington...guess what?

#TedCruzWasRight!

4 posted on 10/24/2013 10:48:31 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: molson209
They should return the checks

They should find the nearest taxpayer and say, "Here, you need this more than I do".

5 posted on 10/24/2013 10:49:28 AM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: EveningStar

*crickets*


6 posted on 10/24/2013 10:49:48 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: EveningStar

These drama queens should be on their knees everyday thanking G-D for Edison, Tesla, Marconi, Jack Warner, David Sarnoff, Philo Farnsworth, Vladimir Zworkin, Disney and countless other “dead White guys” whose inventions, talents and business expertise created entertainment industrial complex that made these overpaid mannequins what they are today. Otherwise they would be in the same situations as their counterparts over 100 years ago. In someone’s alleyway literally singing for their supper. Or travelling from town to town in minstrels hows hoping to provide for their families. Or standing on a soap box in a town square spewing their bs while being looked upon as the village idiots they are. Or locked away in an insane asylum and forgotten about.


7 posted on 10/24/2013 10:54:35 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Or having the crap beat out of them and tarred and feathered.


8 posted on 10/24/2013 10:56:03 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Da Coyote
* Oh well, we aren’t exactly talkin’ the sharpest knives in the drawer now, are we? *

They must have a clause in celebrity contracts that says the part of their brain that thinks about politics has to be replaced by a tuna sandwich.

9 posted on 10/24/2013 11:04:41 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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Nah...they should just be forced to have “O’Care” as THEIR insurance.

THAT would be punishment enough!


10 posted on 10/24/2013 11:13:39 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: Jane Long

Why does Alyssa Milano care?
I thought she got all of her health care at the free clinic?


11 posted on 10/24/2013 11:18:07 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EveningStar

Please be bipartisan and helpful.That way when this blows up, we can blame you for being involved in our stupid idea.
Thank-you,
Hollyweirdo Pretty People


12 posted on 10/24/2013 11:21:03 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Not sure about her free clinic treatments, but Alyssa wants YOU to #getcovered.


13 posted on 10/24/2013 11:22:38 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: EveningStar

it is appalling that these useless twits have any influence at all in America . Air heads and bimbos and men who have never served . Sarah Silverman is particularly repulsive .

Thanks for a list of those to NEVER patronize


14 posted on 10/24/2013 11:24:06 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: EveningStar

These people think IP is an act of performance art


15 posted on 10/24/2013 11:27:03 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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Hypocrites.
Like they’re gonna give up the cushy Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance they get via membership in SAG/AFTRA, for Zerocare.
Same with the morons at MSNBC, CNN, etc., who are SAG/AFTRA members and have the same plan. Nobody ever calls them on it.


16 posted on 10/24/2013 11:46:41 AM PDT by Radagast the Fool (At my signal, UNLEASH PALIN!!)
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To: Jane Long
"Hey, Lady Gaga, Amy Poehler, Nina Dobrev, Rosario Dawson, Sarah Silverman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, Pearl Jam, Lance Bass, John Legend, Alyssa Milano and Kerry Washington...guess what?"

#TedCruzWasRight!


17 posted on 10/24/2013 12:03:45 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: EveningStar

Morons know enough to shut their pie hole when they dug themselves into a crater.


18 posted on 10/24/2013 12:43:47 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: EveningStar
I don't know any of those ‘celebrities’
19 posted on 10/24/2013 1:48:42 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: EveningStar

LMAO!


20 posted on 10/24/2013 2:21:22 PM PDT by indthkr
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