What Epic Propaganda Looks Like (Obamacare And Permanent Right-Wing Misinformation)

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/30/what-epic-propaganda-looks-like/196145



When President Obama signed his landmark health care reform bill into law on March 23, 2010, the ceremony seemed to mark the finish line to what had been a wildly tumultuous legislative process. Featuring the Lie Of The Year, which suggested that health care reform would include ominous and non-existent "death panels," the Republican effort to block the bill had been all-consuming. And it was aided by a misinformation effort closely orchestrated by Fox News and the conservative media.

The signing ceremony however, turned out to be only the beginning. Republican and conservative forces launched guerrilla warfare against the new law, making every effort to thwart its implementation. In Congress, lawmakers repeatedly threaten to cast votes to defund and delay the health law. At the state level, Republican governors are trying to obstruct the law's new insurance marketplaces, which are set to roll out October 1. And well-funded groups are even trying to convince Americans they don't really need health insurance.

To date, Republicans have failed to stop the bill from being passed into law, were unable to convince the Supreme Court that the law was unconstitutional, and they failed miserably in their attempt to vote Obama out of office last year.

But it seems all of that obfuscation served as a precursor for the hailstorm of lies and misinformation that have erupted leading up to October first. The desperation emanating from Fox News and other far-right quarters has been inescapable, including claims that:

◾Obamacare is a "cancer" and "a top-down, iron-fisted, Soviet-style program."

◾Obamacare represents the "largest tax increase in the history of the world."

◾Obamacare is "sticking it to men."

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[Bill USA]

1. by far the most dedicated, long-winded Big Lie in GOP history. It's the effort to continue the

Republican Dystopia of sabotaged recovery to their Trickle Down - Deregulation disaster.

recommended!!

[ChazInAz]

2. The propaganda is inescapable.

It's all over You Tube. Try to watch an episode of "Jeeves and Wooster", and you immediately get hit with an anti-healthcare reform ad. Wouldn't be so bad, but they're amateurish and incomprehensible. Badly written word salads performed by third-rate actors.