Posted on 02/26/2014 12:03:35 PM PST by MissesBush
"Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America," said Reid.
"The leukemia patient whose insurance policy was canceled [and] could die without her medication, Mr. President, that's an ad being paid for by two billionaire brothers. It's absolutely false. Or the woman whose insurance policy went up $700 a month--ads paid for around America by the multibillionaire Koch brothers, and the ad is false.
"We heard about the evils of Obamacare, about the lives it's ruining in Republicans' stump speeches and in ads paid for by oil magnates, the Koch brothers. But in those tales, turned out to be just that: tales, stories made up from whole cloth, lies distorted by the Republicans to grab headlines or make political advertisements.
"Mr. President, these two brothers are trying to buy America. They not only funnel money through their Americans for Prosperity, they funnel money into all kinds of organizations to do the same thing that they're doing. They're trying to buy America. I don't believe america is for sale. We'll see, Mr. President."
Some horror stories are false. And I bet the democrats planted them so they can cast doubt on all Obamahorror stories.
No
We are better than that.
“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
-George Bernard Shaw
I would add to your post that if we actually had a free, fair and balanced media Reid would never be able to get away with this kind of prevarication. We know of course if a Republican Senate majority leader demonized for instance the people who came forward to tell a bunch of falsehoods about Mitt Romney, like the nut who claimed Romney is responsible for his wive's death because she had been laid off years before by a Bain-owned company, and called them all liars the media would have savaged him. But without a free and open media all the messaging in the world by Boehner and McConnell wouldn't make a hill of bean's worth of difference since the media will never fact check a Democrat. Sure we can run ads, but a lot of people will tune them out as just being partisan static. Without a credible media culture that would verify the truth of those ads, we'll make little impression on most voters. Not saying it's worth a try, but I just don't think this can all be laid at the feet of the GOP leadership. It probably feels like spitting into the wind to them to try to right the lies told by creeps like Reid.
No amount of lies will cover up a pile of crap as big as obamacare.
Hairy Reed needs to be examined by Dr. Ben Carson, who will give him an enema to straighten the POS out!
He’s calling his leashed msm liars.
“Mr. President, these two brothers are trying to buy America. They not only funnel money through their Americans for Prosperity, they funnel money into all kinds of organizations to do the same thing that they’re doing. They’re trying to buy America. I don’t believe america is for sale. We’ll see, Mr. President.”
Evil’ Koch Brothers Rank #59 in Political Donations Behind 18 Different Unions
Recently I got into an online argument with a flaming liberal. I thought I was finally rid of him when he came back to our message board debate to post a link to a 2012 mother jones article on the koch brothers and how much they were spending on the political process. In turn I posted the above gateway pundit link. I thought I had the last word. But a week later he comes back to tell me that its all propaganda. That list is phony. That the list doesn’t include all their shadowy money, etc. And the koch brothers are number one in political spending.
Sigh. Liberals. What are you going to do?
Flat-out lying to a granite wall. Harry, yer f***ed in the head.
Harry Reid: “The story laid out by Ancesthntr about his experiences are all lies. He has been coached on what to say by the Koch Brothers.”
You are entirely right that the Democrats have the advantage of a fully compliant media. But that is why it is so important to have a top-down, coordinated approach. I respectfully disagree that a biased media renders an effective strategy impossible. It makes it more difficult, and requires extremely good leadership, but it is still possible, as long as the commitment is there.
The democrats and the media are not omnipotent. They only appear that way because of what the Republican party has become.
Both. Evil and deranged. Most, if not all, tin-pot dictators, and wannabes are...................
That's a desperate political tactic which only works with a core base of "true believers." Everyone who has experienced one of the horror stories and their friends know that Reid is lying, and worse yet calling them a liar.
Its hard to imagine that Reid and his cohorts in the Democratic party want to spend between now and November answering the following question every time they appear in public:
"Last year I lost my insurance policy, and now I have to pay more and I don't have any out of network coverage. To me that's a very real problem. Your colleague and fellow Democrat Harry Reid says I am a liar, and that people like me and my family who have had real problems with Obamacare are lying. Do you agree with him? If not what are you going to do about him and his lying if you get elected?
So if you are one of those people whose experience with Obamacare has been a horror show, you know what to do at those town hall meetings, meet and greet sessions, and every other campaign event or talk show you can find.
If it's so "shadowy," how does he know about it? Notice the left loves to accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of? Who got more "shadowy" money than Barack Obama? Besides, if we factor "shadowy" money into the rankings, then chances are most Democratic donors will leap well ahead of the Koch Bros. on that list.
He needs to be horse whipped.
I agree with you they need to up their game on communications, but we know what the media will do-—they’ll issue fake fact check after fake fact check of every talking point the Republicans put out and just try to turn them into liars in the eyes of voters, just like they did with Romney on things like his claim of Jeep being outsourced to China which turned out to be true after the media ripped him a new one over it. Remember Bush and yellow cake? Turned out Bush was right on that one too. But the Democrats’ organ grinder monkeys in the media will never admit when Republicans are right and in fact will go out of their way to paint them as liars when they are right! I guess all that’s left is for the Republicans to get the message out much better and more effectively than they’re doing and let voters decide for themselves. I guess the one advantage we have is that the US news media has diminishing crediblity with Americans. But all too many are still brainwashed by it. I’m not advocating a throw up our hands approach and to give up trying to get the truth out. I just don’t think we should over-estimate the effectiveness of it or to say the GOP leadership is completely to blame for this state of affairs. It has got to be frustrating to call a press conference to try to get the word out on something or another and only have CSPAN show up. Meanwhile if Obama announces he’s going to fart every network in the country and every newspaper will assign a team reporters to cover it.
But you’re saving $65 on premiums every month. Now take that money, put it in the bank, and in less than 10 years, you’ll have enough to pay one family member’s deductible. See, it’s a win-win for everybody!
/s
Actually, it will take almost 100 years to save $6000 (read the calculator wrong....maybe I’ll run for congress, lol).
Real Party of the Rich Guys: Top Dem donors have outspent top GOP donors by $486 mill in last 25 yrs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3124160/posts
Koch Bros come in 59th.
14 of the top 16 are demonrats.
I still have Weird Al Franken telling me we need to “get money out of politics”.
He calls republicans liars. I thought that was against senate rules.
Is it against the rules for someone to challenge him to a duel?
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