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Racism, Propaganda, And Health Care Reform

by Propagandee September 12, 2009

An attendee at today’s teabagger protest on the D.C. Mall
In the never ending triumph of form over substance, politics over policy, and emotionally charged food fights over actual debate, the MSM occasionally interjects some reality into their coverage of complex issues like health care reform. Example in a moment.
Take the issue du jour– fictional [...]

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Rumba In The Dumba

by Propagandee September 9, 2009

Praying this young lady has good health care insurance…
In an historically rare prime time presidential address to a joint session of Congress concerning health care reform, all the major networks will carry it live, except one:  Fox Broadcasting, which instead will show its regularly scheduled reality show, So You Think You Can Dance, the same [...]

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Death Panels: Follow The Money

by Propagandee August 12, 2009

Okay, last straw. Fuck Chuck Grassley and the slug he rode in on. (That goes for DINO Senator Claire McKaskill too, who just appeared on Hardball excusing his sorry ass.)
Whatever reason President Obama might have had for allowing this guy to hold health care reform hostage via his position on the Senate Finance Committee just [...]

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Bussin’ In The Black Shirts (UPDATE)

by Propagandee August 3, 2009

With the success of the Blue Dogs allied with the Rethugs to delay a vote on health care reform before Congress’ summer recess,  the ad wars have begun. No surprise there. But now a new escalation is afoot. From Randi Rhodes’ blog today:
So right wing organizers are targeting the town halls of Democrats with angry [...]

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The Empire Strikes Back

by Propagandee July 20, 2009

The Medical Mafia’s first salvo in the present health care reform war came in the form of an ad run by CRC Public Relations, the group that ran the Swift Boat ads, for a group that calls itself Conservatives for Patients’ Rights. CPR is led by Medicare fruadster Rick Scott, the founder of the [...]

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The Rocky Rethuglican Horror Show

by Propagandee June 20, 2009

Socialized Medicine. Takeover. Bureaucrat. Rationing.
Frank Luntz is certainly earning his money these days, focus group testing emotionally reactive words like these for distribution by the Medical Mafia and their mostly Rethuglican hit men and women on Capitol Hill.
As one vet wrote Senator Sanders this week:
“I’m active duty military. I have served in the Air Force [...]

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Single Payer: A Medical Insurgence Policy (Update 1)

by Propagandee June 17, 2009

Truth in advertising from the Medical Industrial Complex
Bob Cesca at HuffPo, in his post The Health Insurance Mafia Deserves a Good Screwing recounts his personal experience of losing his family’s medical insurance after his provider, without cause, raised their premium threefold overnight;  and makes the case for a public option.
Atul Gawande of The [...]

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