| Posted by Carnacki
Rightwing group Americans for Prosperity, a group that really should be called Americans for Prosperity for the Rich since they want to stick it to the rest of us, are lying to West Virginians.
From an email:
Americans for Prosperity Running False Ads in WV
Two fact checker sites calls AFP's health care ad's claims false
Charleston, W.Va. - Yet another conservative group that doesn't disclose its donors, this time Americans for Prosperity, has launched a health-care ad littered with problems. Today, West Virginia Democratic Party Chairman Nick Casey called on them to pull the anti-health care TV ad from the airwaves in light of recent analysis by Politifact.com, a Pulitzer Prize winning fact checker, which called the ad "absurd" and said was packed full of "misinformation" and "distortion." FactCheck.org also debunked the ad recognizing its "sheer number of falsehoods."
In the ad, which began airing in northern West Virginia this week, a breast cancer survivor claims that Democratic health care proposals would inhibit early detection of breast cancer in women. The woman then asks viewers to call congressional offices to oppose the bill.
Politifact examined the ad and gave it a "pants on fire" designation, meaning the ad is "not accurate and makes a ridiculous claim."
"This ad paid for by Americans for Prosperity was always false. It has always been absurd and full of falsehoods," said Casey. "Now, a Pulitzer Prize winning fact checking organization has confirmed that and given the ad the lowest marks possible for honesty."
"We're calling on AFP to pull the ad immediately and to apologize for deliberately misleading voters with false claims about Democratic health care proposals that will help hundreds of thousands of West Virginians get better health coverage," Casey concluded.
Politifact's complete analysis of the ad can be read here.
Factcheck.org also debunks the ad here.
Why are the rightwingers so afraid of the Healthcare Reform?
Because they know the Teabaggers they've duped are going to find out they like what is in. Mother Jones:
I pointed out that the health care overhaul would have saved him a lot of money by allowing his daughter to stay on the family plan until she was 26, a fact he hadn't known. Not that this information changed his mind-"you can't have the federal government managing the family life!"-but people like Chiusano might feel differently once they see for themselves how the bill affects their pocketbooks.
Meckler claimed that the bill's benefits were illusory. "Nobody will see any new insurance for four years, but they will see higher taxes," he insisted. That's incorrect: Many of the bill's reforms will kick in almost immediately (PDF), including the provision allowing young people to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26. Medicare recipients, who seem disproportionately represented in Tea Party rallies and town-hall meetings, will also see tremendous benefits right away.
The bill will end copays and deductible charges for preventive care, close the "donut hole" in Medicare's prescription drug benefit (which forces the elderly to pay high out-of-pocket costs), and creates a $10 billion temporary fund to help offset the costs of insurance for people who retire before turning 65. That last benefit is likely to be a huge boon for Tea Party activists, but they'll also benefit from provisions requiring insurance companies to cover everyone regardless of their preexisting conditions. Aging Tea Partiers are much likelier than young people to need such protection.
Rightwingers hated the government funded Social Security and Medicaid too. |
