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Obama’s Propaganda Machine

Posted on | August 16, 2010 | 2 Comments

Rep. Darrell Issa’s office has issued a new report on how the Obama administration is using taxpayer dollars to promote a political agenda. Jonathan Strong of Daily Caller writes:

One of the Obama administration’s more expensive “propaganda” efforts, according to the report, was a television commercial boosting the then-newly passed health care law. The advertisement features 84-year-old television star Andy Griffith and was designed to sell senior citizens, whom polls show are particularly opposed to ObamaCare, on the “good things [that] are coming” in the law.
“Free check ups, lower prescription costs, and better ways to protect us and Medicare from fraud . . . I think you’re gonna like it,” Griffith said in the ad. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal agency responsible for implementing the health care law, paid $700,000 for the commercial, the Issa report says.

Dan Riehl notes that the administration has used blog trolls to spread its message, and there’s more from Bob Owens at Pajamas Media. Fox News featured the Issa report:

Category: Barack Obama

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2 Responses to “Obama’s Propaganda Machine”

  1. Adobe Walls
    August 16th, 2010 @ 5:28 pm

    Ace has a good post on this story. His post below it is much better. Evidence that the Republicans don’t have to be the party of stupid.
    http://minx.cc/?post=304681

  2. Adobe Walls
    August 16th, 2010 @ 1:28 pm

    Ace has a good post on this story. His post below it is much better. Evidence that the Republicans don’t have to be the party of stupid.
    http://minx.cc/?post=304681