Posted on 08/20/2010 4:54:52 PM PDT by jazusamo
In the modern era, all presidents have to some degree used their office to promote themselves and their policies. The Obama administration, however, has taken the practice to new heights. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last month unveiled a slick, $700,000 television commercial featuring crusty old actor Andy Griffith announcing that "more good things" are coming to seniors - thanks to Obamacare. Just add the O Force campaign logo, and the advertisement will be ready for use in the 2012 presidential race.
That has worried Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, who last week issued a report that called into question the legality of the administration's harnessing of government resources to advance a political agenda. The report describes how HHS last year slipped $392,600 in taxpayer funds to MIT economist Jonathan Gruber for "technical assistance" in formulating aspects of Obamacare. Without disclosing his place on the HHS dole, Mr. Gruber provided glowing commentary in support of Obamacare to outlets such as The Washington Post and New York Times. In January, the Gray Lady pointed out that Mr. Gruber had a contractual obligation to inform it about his conflict of interest, adding a disclaimer to his column online explaining, "Had editors been aware of Professor Gruber's government ties, the Op-Ed page would have insisted on disclosure or not published his article."
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It’s getting hard to keep up with all this corruption.
They control every TV network.
TV, magazines and newspapers made the deal with the imam devil because he had $700 million in Saudi money to spend on ads in 2008. TV ads, magazine covers, banner ads, spammers, radio ads, the list is endless.
I’ll take The Schwarz over the O-Force any day!
Andy G must really be on his ‘uppers’ to take that gig.
Yep, I guess I’m not too surprised after the TV ad he and Ron Howard made for Obama supporting him for president, it was sickening.
Very simple solution, change channel or turn it off, and for some of us with a PVR setup just start recording your shows and then skip past anything and everything coming from the democratic party propaganda machine.
Why bother letting the MSM fill our head with glitzy gimmicky lies?
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