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.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

"Polls show that seniors are more skeptical of the health care law than younger people because Medicare cuts provide much of the financing to expand coverage for the uninsured.".......

...And the clown from Mayberry is going to change that?

[KoRn]

Wow! I thought he had died.

[DManA]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfA_xh2rEIQ

[Responsibility2nd]

 

MMmm. Good Cracker!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Me too!....maybe it’s a cardboard cutout!

[jazzlite]

Opie turned out as a leftist..Now, Andy..Good Grief! I guess I won’t be watching MAYBERRY anymore.

[patriot08]

Oh, shut up you corny old fool.

[Spok]

Government’s answer to a flawed product; more propaganda.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[Responsibility2nd]

Oh yeah. I so agree.

I always had my suspicions about Floyd the Barber anyway.

[Musketeer]

I thought He died too. The last time I seen him he was barely able to keep his teeth in on Matlock. Remember that show?

[Perdogg]

He endorsed Jim Hunt in the 1984 NC Senate race. He’s a lib young or old.

[Keli Kilohana]

Shazaam! There’s no fool like an old fool!

[wideawake]

Oh, he's the guy from the TV show about a small Southern town whose population was, oddly, 100% white - you know that show that aired from 1960-1968 during the civil rights movement?

[Bruce Kurtz]

He’s a big lib. Opie, Andy and the Fonz made a commerical for Obama back in 2008. Of course he’s going to support obama care

[SmokingJoe]

Yet another useful idiot trying to con voters because they happened to be on classic TV from days past. The vermin Ron Howard was the first. Not gonna work this time.

[ZULU]

No wonder Opie turned out so dopie.

[television is just wrong]

lol, years ago I used to run into him at Neiman Reeds Lumber City in Burbank

[Moose4]

He’s been a lifelong Democrat, like a lot of Southern men of his generation. No real surprise here, he was a big O-bot in ‘08.

}:-)4

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Golly!...Andy!....

[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.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

"You bet!"......

[crosshairs]

Ernest T. Bass was the one with sense. Sounds like he conked Andy on the head with one of them rocks.

[Boxsford]

*smile*

[hosepipe]

The answer to that ad should be an ad by Barney Fife and Gomer look alikes..

[ozzymandus]

Wonder if Andy still has his KKK uniform?

[oh8eleven]

Wow! I thought he had died.
Only from the neck up.

[oyez]

Andy Griffith replays is role as Lonesome Rhodes, not Andy Taylor. I understand the O'Bama may accually create that cabinet position "Secretary of National Morale"

[Psalm 144]

Wow! I thought he had died.

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He will under Health Control.

[bigredkitty1]

Under Obamacare, he would have and may still.

[Yo-Yo]

I was working on this before you posted that pic!

"Good Healthcare!"