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CNN Refuses to Run Ad Critical of Insurance Company
The battle over health care reform is currently being fought on the nation's airwaves. Ads urging passage of the president's proposed legislation, and those decrying it, have appeared in newspapers, on radio shows and across the television landscape. But one ad that targets both the Republican Party and the insurance industry will not be seen on CNN. Produced by Americans United for Change, the spot begins with the following Q and A:
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Via Greg Sargent, CNN explained the reason it decided not to run the ad:
MSNBC does not seem to share an aversion to targeted negativity, and will begin running the ad today.
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Q: Why do insurance companies and Republicans want to kill health insurance reform?
A: Because they like things the way they are now.
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Via Greg Sargent, CNN explained the reason it decided not to run the ad:
"The ad does not comply with our clearance guidelines because it unnecessarily singles out an individual company and person."That logic seems sound, until you consider that 99.9 percent of ads do mention companies by name, albeit in a positive light. And think of the negative political ads that dominate television screens (including CNN's) every election season. Certainly those ads single out candidates in a negative fashion.
MSNBC does not seem to share an aversion to targeted negativity, and will begin running the ad today.
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David Knowles
A journalist, musician and novelist, David Knowles has covered politics at AOL for the past two and a half years...more
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Adele Roberson
10:18AM Aug 6th 2009
REMEMBER, THE FIGHT ABOUT HEALTH INSURANCE IS ALL ABOUT MONEY... THE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND THEIR OBSCENE PROFITS.
Most of the States so vehemently opposed to Obama and anything he wants to do are in the South. The South is the most ignorant part of this country .. They are still fighting the Civil war. They soil their collective pants every day when they realize once again that there is a black President of this country. The insurance companies have hired bus loads of people to go around the State screaming obscenities about the President and his effort to fix our broken health care system. How do I know this? I live in Texas. Texas is the center for the Lunatic Fringe.
If you got your information from the CBS News last night, you would believe that "angry protesters" are cropping up "everywhere Democrats are trying to defend health care reform." "Conservative websites" like Freedomworks are recruiting them, based on "real fear over the increased taxes" and "government control" of the health care system.
Max Pappas from Freedomworks shows up to speak on their behalf.
Freedomworks isn't some "organic grassroots" outfit. It's run by former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey -- corporate lobbyist, global warming denier and ladie's man. The President and CEO of Freedomworks is Matt Kibbee, who was trained by Lee Atwater. Kibbe was behind the attempt to get Ralph Nader put on the ballot in Oregon in 2004, prompting a complaint to the FEC of illegal collusion with the GOP.
Steve Forbes is on the FreedomWorks board. As Paul Krugman noted, their money comes from the Koch, Scaife, Bradley, Olin nexus, as well as other reliable funders of right wing infrastructure including Exxon Mobil.
Freedomworks has a long history of skunk works. In 2004, a woman who identified herself as a "single mother" in Iowa, Sandra Jacques, appeared at a George Bush town hall and gushed about his plan to privatize Social Security. She left out the part about being an employee of Freedomworks, who were lobbying on the issue at the time.
David Koch is also Chairman of the other major outfit heavily involved in these "organic" uprisings, Americans for Prosperity, whose members lynched Democrat Frank Kratovil in effigy. Koch is the 19th richest man in the world. They recently renamed the New York State Theater in Lincoln Center the David H. Koch Theater.
These aren't just some organizations that these guys gave money to. They run them.
This extreme violent behavior is being organized and funded by those at the highest levels of the conservative infrastructure. It's not some sideline, some quirky hobby. It is the function and purpose of these organizations to threaten and intimidate elected officials in order to subvert the will of the electorate to a corporate agenda.
http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/04/how-come-cbs-journalists-cant-recognize-paid-lobbyists-when-they-see-them/
Please call your representatives and tell them these thugs do not represent you. Please ask them to support single-payer health insurance. Do not be a fool who is brainwashed by Insurance companies. Tomorrow it will be your head that is on the chopping block.
Most of the States so vehemently opposed to Obama and anything he wants to do are in the South. The South is the most ignorant part of this country .. They are still fighting the Civil war. They soil their collective pants every day when they realize once again that there is a black President of this country. The insurance companies have hired bus loads of people to go around the State screaming obscenities about the President and his effort to fix our broken health care system. How do I know this? I live in Texas. Texas is the center for the Lunatic Fringe.
If you got your information from the CBS News last night, you would believe that "angry protesters" are cropping up "everywhere Democrats are trying to defend health care reform." "Conservative websites" like Freedomworks are recruiting them, based on "real fear over the increased taxes" and "government control" of the health care system.
Max Pappas from Freedomworks shows up to speak on their behalf.
Freedomworks isn't some "organic grassroots" outfit. It's run by former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey -- corporate lobbyist, global warming denier and ladie's man. The President and CEO of Freedomworks is Matt Kibbee, who was trained by Lee Atwater. Kibbe was behind the attempt to get Ralph Nader put on the ballot in Oregon in 2004, prompting a complaint to the FEC of illegal collusion with the GOP.
Steve Forbes is on the FreedomWorks board. As Paul Krugman noted, their money comes from the Koch, Scaife, Bradley, Olin nexus, as well as other reliable funders of right wing infrastructure including Exxon Mobil.
Freedomworks has a long history of skunk works. In 2004, a woman who identified herself as a "single mother" in Iowa, Sandra Jacques, appeared at a George Bush town hall and gushed about his plan to privatize Social Security. She left out the part about being an employee of Freedomworks, who were lobbying on the issue at the time.
David Koch is also Chairman of the other major outfit heavily involved in these "organic" uprisings, Americans for Prosperity, whose members lynched Democrat Frank Kratovil in effigy. Koch is the 19th richest man in the world. They recently renamed the New York State Theater in Lincoln Center the David H. Koch Theater.
These aren't just some organizations that these guys gave money to. They run them.
This extreme violent behavior is being organized and funded by those at the highest levels of the conservative infrastructure. It's not some sideline, some quirky hobby. It is the function and purpose of these organizations to threaten and intimidate elected officials in order to subvert the will of the electorate to a corporate agenda.
http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/04/how-come-cbs-journalists-cant-recognize-paid-lobbyists-when-they-see-them/
Please call your representatives and tell them these thugs do not represent you. Please ask them to support single-payer health insurance. Do not be a fool who is brainwashed by Insurance companies. Tomorrow it will be your head that is on the chopping block.
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sandsnnydz
10:24AM Aug 6th 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqzu0ggLObo
“Once the government is permitted to curtail free speech at any level then the door is open and we should be worried a lot about where that could go,” Carter said.
“Once the government is permitted to curtail free speech at any level then the door is open and we should be worried a lot about where that could go,” Carter said.
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(5) marymeade2
10:31AM Aug 6th 2009
And Democrats don't accept money from doners? Please make your commentary real and get your facts straight. Do you really expect us to believe you? You sound like a ingorant, illiterate.
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(2) WHO EVER WHAT EV
10:43AM Aug 6th 2009
i love how you characterize all in the south are ignorant, racist, and still fighting the civil war. You live in texas but i bet your not from texas and why do you have such a big chip on your should about the south. Your really the one that sounds ignorant.
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(4) jpc1108
11:45AM Aug 6th 2009
Adele, you are an idiot.
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(2) alexanderpz
11:46AM Aug 6th 2009
I support your statements although don't know as much about the details of the players. I am a doctor and think freely. I am disgusted of what I see has happened with the "Nazi" republican party. I am also disgusted at all the press. They play on words and don't state the facts. The middle class will always get screwed and the elite top 5% will continue to rule. I don't agree with all the things in the health care bill but I do know that patients and doctors should run the show and the insurance companies are there to make profits. Why is it that the republicans did not do a thing for the american people while the "War on Terror" was being played out.
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(-1) cjjanis
12:01PM Aug 6th 2009
I guess Republicans forget the free speech zones Bush had two miles from his town halls, or the vetting they did to prevent any body who didn't agree with him from getting in. I bet they forget the arrest of any protesters who got though the security at these events for evem wearing a t-shirt that was against Bush's policys. Free speech is alive and well under Obama and we welcome those who have ideas and honest disagrement who can voice their opinion without stomping on the rights of others.
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(-4) rutross
12:10PM Aug 6th 2009
Adele, You are mistaken. The angry protesters are actually angry that the goverment wants to take away personal freedom to choose our own doctor and health program. You may not agree, but they do have the right to protest. Have you read the polls...half the population of this country does not approve of Obama's plan. There needs to be a debate. Your bashing everything republican on its face is ignorant and negligent.
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(2) leonlong96
5:23PM Aug 6th 2009
Adele, you are just another one of the leftist socialists, and I am from the south. We are not ignorant down here, I think maybe we are the only ones listening to the truth, that we are quickly going broke as a nation!!!!
We have an IGNORANT president and a Pelosi and a Reid who are intent upon destroying any figment of our nation. Can you tell me how we will repay TRILLIONS of dollars of debt, 2/3 of what our gdp will be over the next several years????? WHO, THEN, ARE THE IGNORANT PEOPLE???? I grant you, I have heard a lot of ignorant people speak just after listening to one of the major networks telling a falsehood. People tend to repeat what they hear. It is known as PROPAGANDA, AND OBAMA IS USING IT VERY WELL. He said we had a middle class tax cut 3 months ago. Are you getting more net income?????
We have an IGNORANT president and a Pelosi and a Reid who are intent upon destroying any figment of our nation. Can you tell me how we will repay TRILLIONS of dollars of debt, 2/3 of what our gdp will be over the next several years????? WHO, THEN, ARE THE IGNORANT PEOPLE???? I grant you, I have heard a lot of ignorant people speak just after listening to one of the major networks telling a falsehood. People tend to repeat what they hear. It is known as PROPAGANDA, AND OBAMA IS USING IT VERY WELL. He said we had a middle class tax cut 3 months ago. Are you getting more net income?????
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(-1) slfstx
1:29PM Aug 6th 2009
We now have our Faux airwaves, radio and especially television, filled not with news but opinionated yelling matches or just singular personal opinions by so called experts on singular, or multiple, what once was news issues. They yell at each other, interrupt one another or if they don't like what they hear just cut the mikes, this isn't news and they aren't experts, they're instigators of propaganda, propaganda to control the fearful, now they are doing the same thing in the town halls and they are still trying to call this debating!
Wake up America...they lied you into Iraq now they want to lie you out of affordable health care.
Wake up America...they lied you into Iraq now they want to lie you out of affordable health care.
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(0) nevinsp
1:33PM Aug 6th 2009
I am a lawyer who, by personal choice,represents employees in employment litigation who are victims of age, sex, race or disability discrimination or against whom former employers seek to enforce non-competition agreements. As someone who also reprsents European employees, I begin with the basic proposition: The United States has the most primitive and restrictive labor laws of any country in the Western world. Corporations- through their gaggles of lobbyists aided by timid legislators - have made it virtually impossible for American workers to unionize and to collectively bargain. Because of the judicially-created fiction of "employment-at will" most Americans, in contrast to their European peers, have no protection against arbitrary discharge or workpace discipline.
Most Americans are oblvious to this realty and assume that that Europeans suffer under the same labor regime. Few citzens realize that almost all Europeans are unionized and, because of comprehensive public welfare systems supported by their taxes, even unemployed Europeans do not need to fear unemployment or face the prospect of homelessness or bankruptcy.
In a similar vein, all European nations and our neighbor to the north, provide for some form of universal medicial coverage for all of their citizens. Some, like Canada, offer single-payer systems - socialized insurance. Other countries - such as the U.K. and Spain - offer socialized medicine: Most physicians are government employees. Others - such as Germany, France and the Netherlands - offer multi-payer systems with a public option.
If we are the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, why can't we follow the example of other democracies? What about the biblical injunction that "We you do for the least of my brethren, you do for me?" Are we so selfish and obssessed with the protection of our own possessions that we fail to realize that inequalities of wealth, opportunity and care, if not curbed, will reduce us, over time,to a state of social unrest lamented by Thomas Hobbes in which the life of man becomes "poore, nasty, brutish and short."
Paul Nevins
Boston, MA
Most Americans are oblvious to this realty and assume that that Europeans suffer under the same labor regime. Few citzens realize that almost all Europeans are unionized and, because of comprehensive public welfare systems supported by their taxes, even unemployed Europeans do not need to fear unemployment or face the prospect of homelessness or bankruptcy.
In a similar vein, all European nations and our neighbor to the north, provide for some form of universal medicial coverage for all of their citizens. Some, like Canada, offer single-payer systems - socialized insurance. Other countries - such as the U.K. and Spain - offer socialized medicine: Most physicians are government employees. Others - such as Germany, France and the Netherlands - offer multi-payer systems with a public option.
If we are the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, why can't we follow the example of other democracies? What about the biblical injunction that "We you do for the least of my brethren, you do for me?" Are we so selfish and obssessed with the protection of our own possessions that we fail to realize that inequalities of wealth, opportunity and care, if not curbed, will reduce us, over time,to a state of social unrest lamented by Thomas Hobbes in which the life of man becomes "poore, nasty, brutish and short."
Paul Nevins
Boston, MA
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(-1) oscarbb002
1:42PM Aug 6th 2009
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(-1) jim
10:21AM Aug 6th 2009
Knowles.. Maybe its because there tired of running Lies and Lies and more lies.. Kind of like your columns..
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(0) grcmid
10:32AM Aug 6th 2009
Hey Adele Roberson......... your wrong its all about Govt control over you. :)
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(6) cjjanis
11:04AM Aug 6th 2009
I just love stupid republicans! So I guess its better to have a for
profit company that care nothing for you controlling your health
care?
Or a government that you elected and can toss out of office? Umm what
do I choose? On one hand we have companies that make gross profits of
over 30% by refusing rightful claims or a government that has proven
itself by providing for our elderly and vets. But again no one is
talking about a single payer system, if you like your plan keep it. A
government plan will lower the cost of the private plans and keep
those companies honest.
Yep republicans scream about government control while they collect
huge checks from the insurance industry that really controls things.
I bet you didn't watch the Senate hearings with the insurance CEOs,
they all stood there told our reps that they would not stop refusing
rightful claims! Because the law allows them to do it and get away
with it. That means more people will die because they paid for
insurance but the companies choose to make gross profits and refuse
to cover a rightful claim.
Mean while while the senate is out enjoying their break another
40,000 Americans will loose their coverage, another 18,333 will die
because they don't have coverage. So you ask do I trust my government
or the Health Insurance industry? I trust the guy I can fire! I sure
as hell don't trust the lying republicans(some dems too) who line
their pockets with money from those who kill Americans for profit!
And we thought the terrorist were bad.
profit company that care nothing for you controlling your health
care?
Or a government that you elected and can toss out of office? Umm what
do I choose? On one hand we have companies that make gross profits of
over 30% by refusing rightful claims or a government that has proven
itself by providing for our elderly and vets. But again no one is
talking about a single payer system, if you like your plan keep it. A
government plan will lower the cost of the private plans and keep
those companies honest.
Yep republicans scream about government control while they collect
huge checks from the insurance industry that really controls things.
I bet you didn't watch the Senate hearings with the insurance CEOs,
they all stood there told our reps that they would not stop refusing
rightful claims! Because the law allows them to do it and get away
with it. That means more people will die because they paid for
insurance but the companies choose to make gross profits and refuse
to cover a rightful claim.
Mean while while the senate is out enjoying their break another
40,000 Americans will loose their coverage, another 18,333 will die
because they don't have coverage. So you ask do I trust my government
or the Health Insurance industry? I trust the guy I can fire! I sure
as hell don't trust the lying republicans(some dems too) who line
their pockets with money from those who kill Americans for profit!
And we thought the terrorist were bad.
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(0) marymeade2
10:34AM Aug 6th 2009
I was referring to Adele Roberson comment, however, Knowles should go back to his rock band very shallow piece of work.
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(-1) MARK
10:36AM Aug 6th 2009
The DEMS are in bed with with Corporate America as much as the REPS...neither party cares about YOU, "working people"...as far as they're concerned...pay your taxes...and drop dead.
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(4) mermaid
4:14PM Aug 6th 2009
You spoke the truth. None of them care about common people. I am amused by people who get bent out of shape because of party labels. Wake up people, they are all the same.
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(0) cjjanis
12:07PM Aug 6th 2009
To a lesser extent you are right, corporations know enough to give to both parties. In fact you can tell who is on track to win an election by seeing which party is getting more from corporate America. But history has shown that the GOP from the 1880s to today are the party for corporate
interest and the grossly rich. I dare you to come up with a GOP bill that they have passed in the last 30 years that benefits working Americans.
While you do that I can name many that the dems have passed that benefit working Americans...............
interest and the grossly rich. I dare you to come up with a GOP bill that they have passed in the last 30 years that benefits working Americans.
While you do that I can name many that the dems have passed that benefit working Americans...............
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(0) Dorothy
10:49AM Aug 6th 2009
Um, excuse me idiot left-wing radical liberal commie-closet liberals in DC...your problem isn't "republicans." Your problem is your OWN party of blue dog democrats.
Nice try in splintering facts and working at drawing a line and creating partisanship.
The public is not stupid like left-wing radical liberals in charge of DC would like to think they are.
Nice try in splintering facts and working at drawing a line and creating partisanship.
The public is not stupid like left-wing radical liberals in charge of DC would like to think they are.
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