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Will Popular Television Shows Soon Begin Pushing ‘ObamaCare’?

Sep. 15, 2012 10:34pm Erica Ritz

Hollywood Could Soon Feature Pro ObamaCare Themes | Modern Family, Greys Anatomy

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The New York Times is reporting that California is resorting to unconventional methods of convincing its residents of the “benefits” of what is known as “ObamaCare.” While advertisements are usually clearly stated as such, apparently Americans could soon see pro-health care reform messages in some of the nation’s most popular television shows.

The New York Times explains:

Realizing that much of the battle will be in the public relations realm, the[California Health Benefit Exchange] has poured significant resources into a detailed marketing plan — developed not by state health bureaucrats but by the global marketing powerhouse Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, which has an initial $900,000 contract with the exchange. The Ogilvy plan includes ideas for reaching an uninsured population that speaks dozens of languages and is scattered through 11 media markets: advertising on coffee cup sleeves at community colleges to reach adult students, for example, and at professional soccer matches to reach young Hispanic men.

And Hollywood, an industry whose major players have been supportive of President Obama and his agenda, will be tapped. Plans are being discussed to pitch a reality television show about “the trials and tribulations of families living without medical coverage,” according to the Ogilvy plan. The exchange will also seek to have prime-time television shows, like “Modern Family,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and Univision telenovelas, weave the health care law into their plots.

“I’d like to see 10 of the major TV shows, or telenovelas, have people talking about ‘that health insurance thing,’ ” said Peter V. Lee, the exchange’s executive director. “There are good story lines here.” [Emphasis added]

The article does not say whether Lee, who refers to the overhaul as “that health insurance thing,” has read the roughly 2,500 page bill that Americans will soon have to conform to.

In this publicity photo released by ABC, Rico Rodriguez, left, and Sofia Vergara are shown in a scene from Modern Family."

The New York Times continues:

The exchange itself has so far been financed by three grants, worth $237 million, from the federal government. Most of the money is committed to consultants, including Accenture, which has a $327 million contract to build and support the initial operation of the enrollment portal.

[...]Despite the full-throttle approach here, another uncertainty is the outcome of the presidential race. Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, has vowed to repeal the health care law and restructure Medicaid, not only scrapping the planned expansion but making the program much leaner. Even without a repeal, Republicans could undo the federal subsidies and other financing for the law if they won the presidency and even a narrow majority in the Senate.

“If the federal funding stopped,” Mr. Lee said, “we would be at a ‘press reset’ button.” [Emphasis added]

Apparently only 17% of California voters in an August 20 Field Poll said they were familiar with the specifics of the insurance exchange that will soon be a major component of the health care system, though 54% said they supported the new legislation.

“The fact that very few people have heard about us isn’t an issue,” Mr. Lee said confidently. “Come back in a year.”

(H/T: NewsBusters)

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MODEL82A1
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:36pm
Hey Lefties, what about the Separation of Television and State? After all, it is just as real as your beloved “Separation of Church and State” that you’re always whining about.

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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 12:39am
  Where does Fox fit in there?
  
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- Quagaar Warrior
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 12:46am
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  KILL your TV and think for yourselves!
  An informed voter is a liberal’s nightmare!
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- Kaoscontrol
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:19am
  “Will popular shows begin pushing Obamacare?” Not if they want to remain popular…
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:54am
  Great job today in OHIO FREEPAC (FREEDOM WORKS) and GLENN!! WHO needs “reg” TV anymore anyway?
  Answer to question: YES. I fully expect every outlet, radio, tv, news, broadcast, Cable etc…everything to go all out now until election. THEY KNOW that dope is losing and you can expect an almost hysterical, manic floundering trying to support the WORST, MOST UNAMERICAN PRESIDENT we’ve ever had… PS…someone needs to TELL BILLY CLINTON that he’s sullying what’s left of his Presidential Legacy by backing this Muslim in the WH. IF Obama really had the plans, the means, the wherewithall to fix this economy…what is he waiting for? He controlled it all from 2006 onward until 2010 and solidly from 2008. BILLY looks as bad in that ad as he did when he furiously tried to proclaim ” I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN”. Trash.
  
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- hold_my_stones
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 2:26am
  Clinton looks like he’s not going to last much longer. It’ll be a good day for america when he finally does croak.
  
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- tvstaff
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 3:29am
  Communism will save America. Mao and Stalin were right.
  
  Obama will move America forward.
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 4:50am
  Read all about it in “Primetime Propaganda – The True Hollywood Story Of How The Left Took Over Your TV’, by Ben Shapiro. You’ll be surprised to find out how…:)
  
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- TIME_THE_AVENGER
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 5:07am
  How do you think those liars took McCarthy down, Jack? You need to catch up on your reading. No offense meant.
  
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- Komponist-ZAH
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 5:12am
  What about separation of economy and state?
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 5:27am
  None taken, TIME. I have the book here, started it, and never finished it. Too busy croakin’. Just the other day, I saw a segment on my local abc affiliate. It was promoting Michelle’s food police nanny state, complete with food shots and workouts with ALL ‘pretty people’, even the kids. Believe it or not, back in the spring, over 5″ of rain fell right over the place.ONLY OVER THE PLACE. It was freaky, ya know? I’m half-tempted to pull a Pontius Pilate on ‘em. Their local programming always led my area too. They even have TWO complete channels now. I think they should give abc the boot and go indie, instead of peddling their tow-the-party-line nonsense. That’d be a real first for them!
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 5:34am
  Ever hear this: “Spit Yourself OUT of the System”. I did it! Now i get all my news and entertainment from radio and the net. TV is silent. Thank you FreedomWorks for the great online event Saturday. We can now be Freedom Ninja’s and have a true PAC=Principled Action Community…..No time to watch TV. It is time for ACTION. Don’t watch…DO. Take our country back. DO Yard Signs, Go Door-to-Door, Phone Bank from home, Organize friends, Join a Tea Party, Talk to Media, Get On-Line. I look forward to the “Black and White tour”, Run Away Slave movie, Atlas Shrugged Part II movie and cheering when great American conservative like Josh Mandell (can we clone this guy?) get elected and We The People will have our Divinely Inspired Constitution back in place…Thank you Glenn and Freedom Works- Matt Kibbe & Amilia. Ohio really rocked yesterday! If we all get busy and involved we will no longer be “Land of the fee and home of the slave” We can take our country back! FreedomWorks is there to help us all, they are a great resource and now the Blaze is Too. Who cares about TV…There is too much to do and so little time..November is close..talk to everyone who will listen. Romney/Ryan 2012….and in MN: Kurt Bills for Senate-Amy Koblucher must be defeated Chris Fields for Congress-(Keith Ellison must be defeated).
  
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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 7:59am
  Liberals doing everything they can to divide us even further. Liberals are pathetic and disgusting.
  
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- Silversmith
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 7:59am
  You know I’ve seen some really ham handed product placement in some shows, and every time it happens, the whole vibe changes and I feel used. Do you think that when politicians start this crap it will be any better? Advertising in general has led me to disconnect my cable TV, but this stuff was the most egregious misuse of the entertainment platform. If it’s all advertising – WHY WATCH??
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:22am
  Come on folks and experience the freedom of not wasting your time watching TV. We have been TV free for over a year and it is one of the best things we ever did. Break that chain that binds you and you won’t regret it.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:45am
  The propaganda media in full view. Turn these shows off and watch BlazeTV.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:52am
  of course the modern entertainment industry is in bed with progressives.
  
  Just sit back, and see how many modern commercials show a half white, half black man be the cool guy in the comercial.
  
  The modern entertainment industry is why we now have a nation that just loves degenerate sodomites.
  
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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:55am
  It might as well push Obamacare, because Romney is going to push it anyways, but just the Gog side of it, and he’ll toss rose petals in front of you hoping you don’t see the barrel he’s bending you over.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:57am
  it started with Ellen The Degenerate coming out of the closet, then morphed into every single show on television having a degenerat sodomite or lesbian being cast in a good light. Now America is all for it.
  
  If any one thing lets me know that this nation is crumbling as we speak, and teetering on the brink of destruction, it is the fact that we now allow the evil homosexuals to adopt and destroy children.
  
  It will not be long now
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 9:15am
  Can’t wait for the scene of the death panel. All 12 memebers will be age 32 & under. All these old people will have 5 minutes to convince the panel that their life is worth saving. The rich will make donations to the panels retirement program and get the medical attention they need. The rest will be denied and their families will go to their funeral on down the line.
  
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- drbage
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 9:29am
  Even the self-anointed one says that part of the problem with the unpopularity of the ACA(not using the common term for it since Toure etal have deemed that a racial code word) is that he did not explain it well enough….(unsaid) for the stupid people to understand. How many times did he give speeches on it? His party’s main communications outlet–the lamestream media–did their best, but if the people are products of what passes for an education system these day, they are functionally illiterate. So, now they will switch to their secondary messaging outlet–TV and films, probably they will also run ads asking for those $3 donations, too.
  
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- Roberto G. Vasquez
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 9:51am
  Media Propagandistas!
  
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- mattmo79
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 9:56am
  Gee, and I wonder why I don’t watch prime time TV. Government indoctrination via TV programing, does anyone see a problem with that?
  
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- tifosa
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 10:45am
  Fox wins their Fox-Can-Lie lawsuit:
  “The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.
  In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a “policy,” not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation. Fox aired a report after the ruling saying it was “totally vindicated” by the verdict.”
  http://foxnewsboycott.com/resources/fox-can-lie-lawsuit/
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 11:00am
  tifosa – All the other “so called news channels” already do that. Fox is just catching up.
  
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- hypnos
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 11:40am
  Appealing to the brain dead the obama mantra. Remember the central planners know better than you and they are here to help.
  
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- PutMoreOnMyPlate
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 12:02pm
  And then Cersei mandated all peoples in the 7 kingoms pay for healthcare or a tax and the masses said what? George R. R. Martin would be rolling over in his grave- oh he’s not dead yet, what a relief!
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:13pm
  Thanks for telling me in advance what shows I’ll avoid like the plague. It’s my TV, I pay for the cable, and I refuse to watch anything indoctrinating me. I’ve picked up the fact that FOX NEWS is slipping and sliding away to the liberal side, I can see it daily, so that changes my watching FOX.
  
  Bill Clinton has truly made an arse of himself standing up for Obama. I tried to catch a hint of sarcasm in his speech, but didn’t quite make it, so I guess he’s turned away from Freedom to Obama’s side………keep wondering what obama has on Bill to make him support him? Have heard different stories, but there’s something to consider, after all the hatred between the two. This isn’t just politics as usual. Something sinister, and his name begins with B.S. from Jakarta.
  
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- Bluefish49
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:27pm
  The first time I hear it being pushed on any show including on the FOX Network it will be the last time I will watch that show. I’ve read what the fall line up is and it is pro-gay, with the classic dysfunctional family theme and anti-religion. So it will be The Travel Channel, Food Network and Fox News for me.
  
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- PoochieGirl
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:34pm
  That misogynist Bill Clinton, back wagging that finger at us while he LIES! Put that nasty finger down, Billy boy, we all know where it’s been!!
  
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- XScramblerX
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 4:24pm
  No one is forcing anyone to watch or support a program that pushes a political agenda. That being said…there’s nothing to watch anyway. Everyone says “what can I do about it?” I for one cancelled all my satellite television…fcked if I’m gonna support and pay the wages of crap like cnn, madcow, idiot matthews, PMSNBC, just to name a few. I’ll pay for what I want my family to view…not the political propaganda, sex, freeloading mentality the lame stream serve now. I control, WOW that sounds great! I control what is streamed in MY home. That’s an easy thing for any American to do. It also forces the FREE MARKET to create programming that we actually want! Oh buy the way, even after paying for some internet tv that my family and I chose, I still save $93.00 / month! I challenge all Americans to CONTROL the their own streaming at home, and stop paying the wages of the talking heads ! I call it, OPERATION: TAKE BACK THE TUBE!
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 6:22pm
  September 16, 2012
  Obama Destabilized the Middle East on Purpose
  By Karin McQuillan
  
  Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/obama_destabilized_the_middle_east_on_purpose.html#ixzz26fpcUF8p
  
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- Bikkiboo
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:53pm
  Will they “weave in” things like this: Yesterday, I was at a favorite restaurant talking to a regular waitress. She said her days and hours had been cut…”because of Obamacare”… and she now had to get a second job, so she could pay her bills.
  OR, how about the tax on “medical devices” – like bandaids that begins Jan. 1, 2013. ‘Spose they’ll “weave” those things in? Probably not…
  
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- Uncle Dave
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 2:40pm
  The people saying to turn off the TV; you don’t get it. The brain-dead sheeple that are still watching will be voting, if not this election then other elections in the future. And they will no longer be brain-dead; they will be brain-washed. The large portion of the nation that has no life and is trying to find one by reading US, People and Vanity Fair, and watching Survivor, Kardashians, Honey Boo-Boo or anything on MTV. They will continue to be brain-washed voting zombies, pulling the handle for whom ever will give them “more stuff”. We have reached the tipping point, where the mindless wanting MORE are out-numbering the working stiffs that are providing it for them.
  I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m taxed to death. And now I find out my tax dollars are going to Californication to pay for TV programs to “inform” people in 11 languages that they can come get more from the trough. And I didn’t even get to vote on this, and neither did Congress. It was a GRANT, like Planned Parenthood or an art museum with and upside-down Jesus in a bottle of urine.
Ragnars Repos
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:34pm
Commie propaganda: 2012

And Americans? They remain silent, apathetic, and ready-for-the-slaughter.

It’s happening right in front of you all.

Act now to defend yourselves or you will suffer as slaves. This has been the fate of the vast majority of humans throughout human history. Life in the USA is the rarest of exceptions, and Americans are LETTING it (human freedom) rot away.

No one is coming to save us. We stand up now, or it will fade away.

Americans will not be at all happy with the alternatives to the freedom they now take for granted.

Obamacare will lead to your enslavement, guaranteed.

http://youtu.be/fRdLpem-AAs

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- Winedude
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 12:14am
  If you didn’t have fear to peddle, you wouldn’t have anything to say.
- Psychosis
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:03am
  @ wino
  
  you have yet to say anything of pertinence
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:03am
  @WHINEYDUDE
  If you lefty, prgressives didn’t create conditions to make the rest of us fear for our liberties and freedoms, he wouldn’t have to say anything.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 2:23am
  @ Ragnars
  
  I agree with you. It is pretty sleazy of the Obama administration to hand over $237 million of taxpayers money in grants to an organisation that it then asks to promote Obamacare.
  
  At this time it seems that your nation is split roughly down the middle in the polls (on average) and the gloves are definitely off. I keep waiting for the Romney campaign to land a few blows, but they don’t quite seem to. They should be caning Mr Obama for his muddled and ineffective response to the embassy attacks, which have even outraged the left, but they seem to be letting that one slip away.
  
  Time is ticking on…
  
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- CATPBJ
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 4:36am
  @ http://www.theblaze.com/users/ragnars-repos/ —
  
  The ‘title’ of your post is extremely accurate “Commie Propaganda: 2012″. But you shouldn’t put yourself down like that. In fact, there is a slight possibility [albeit a VERY SLIGHT possibility] that you are not a self-proclaimed commie. I am sure that you, like the other multitudes of GOPTP idiots and court jesters, misuse and interchange the terms commie with socialist and vice-versa! Take it from me, although I never met you, I can tell from reading your posts that you, my dear little mentally-challenged friend, must have been home-schooled like Dubya, speaking of the little Texan Troll….. George W. Bush was the worst president. He left office with two hateful and unwanted wars and is to blame for hundreds of thousands of deaths. He almost destroyed the country by deregulating the banks and he left the country with tens of trillions of dollars in debt. Had he been a good president, there would have been no need for a bailout. Bush is still getting large sums of money from oil interests. He should be serving a life sentence in a federal prison. And let’s not forget Richard Nixon. These fine presidents were all supposed to be conservatives.
  
  Mitt Romney is a man of great wealth, with billions of dollars. He seems to have all that America has to offer, but one thing he doesn’t have yet is to be the most powerful man in the world. This is a GOP that is gone with the wind.
  
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Andy Cooper
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:30pm
I will quit watching any show that pushes Obamacare.

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:44pm
  What to push?
  It da law.
- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:10am
  It’s not a law that ANDY or anybody has to watch.
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:48am
  Voiceofstupidity – Maybe you wouldn’t be so idiotic if you didn’t post like a gangster.
  
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- mharry860
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:54am
  Verceofreason, good luck with that. I WILL NOT COMPLY!
  
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- MEANS2RESIST
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 2:02am
  What small bits & pieces of obamatax that may be advertised on TV won’t ;last long, I have news for you COMMIE OF UNREASON, the ineligible muslime posing as potus is going to be disappionted, obamatax will be scratched once Romney takes over. It’ll never get off the ground
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 2:26am
  Nobody HAS to comply.
  You’re also free not to sign up for Medicare.
  
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- HJS
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 7:19am
  Unfortunately it won’t matter if we turn off our TV’s. The masses won’t. Hollywood was very successful at normalizing the Gay lifestyle and they will more than likely be just as successful at pushing Obamacare as a way of life. By the time the long wait times, do-it-yourself brain surgery, and on line medical degrees make it to the sit-coms as punchlines, the battle will be over. The American sheeple will follow the woolly **** in front of them. The rot of communism seems well entrenched in America’s infrastructure. If the message of liberty doesn’t unseat King Obama in November, Chicken Little may have been correct.
  
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- PutMoreOnMyPlate
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 12:00pm
  Why watch any TV? It stopped being any form of enjoyment after seeing how everything comes to a dead stop and it seemed to eat away all of my imagination. It doesn’t inspire, or interact, so no, no TV :P
  
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TJexcite
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:27pm
They tried hard to worked it in that the Tea Party was all violence on TV shows but it did not work. They did call Glenn and Rush evil on Law and Order. Just because it is not open propaganda it still is propaganda. “New Normal” is propaganda to a new normal the same way Will and Grace and Married with children was. They have been working pro-gay, anti-family or broken family themes in to shows for years

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The Third Archon
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:25pm
“has vowed to repeal the health care law and restructure Medicaid,”
AH, notice how he said “MedicAID” not “MediCARE”–he wants to gut the program designed to support the POOR (who AREN’T a major Republican constituency), and leave alone the one designed to support the elderly (who ARE a major Republican constituency). Yeah, that doesn’t seem hypocritical and nakedly partisan AT ALL–I thought it was HEALTHCARE, writ large, that the Republicans were banging on about needing reform, not “the healthcare of our political OPPOSITION.”
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- MODEL82A1
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:51pm
  ARCHON, If only any Republican President had EVER had ANY success in “Gutting” the programs your programmers have been accusing them of wanting to “gut” since their inception, America would be in much better shape than it is. Sadly, both spending on entitlements, AND the number of “the poor” that you so adore have both done nothing buy skyrocket. Especially under Democrat regimes.
  
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- vince284
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:27am
  For as long as I can remember, the progressives (read: democrats) have been screaming that we want to destroy the “poor”. We also want to force the elderly to choose between eating dog food or buying their necessary medicine.
  
  Allow me to tell you that none of these straw arguments have ever come true. Allow me to also inform you that seniors have heard your idiocy, and have rejected it.
  
  You may only cry “wolf” so many times.
  
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mildot rider
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:24pm
Do not buy anything from the sponsors of this garbage on TV. Call the sponsors and tell them why you won’t buy their product if they continue to support commie regimes. The healthcare TAX is Unconstitutional regardless of what a couple of filthy Marxist dictators tell you otherwise. It is so simple to just say NO.

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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 12:41am
  COMMIES!!! UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!! MARXISTS!!!! Think of the children!!!
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:46am
  Ex – It’s not my fault that your side wants to turn this country into something horrible.
  
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marine249
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:19pm
who to he!! watches these tv programs anyway?

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- patriot48
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:39pm
  Excellent point!
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 12:24am
  I would say these shows are watched mostly by people who aren’t even old enough to vote…yet.
  
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- MEANS2RESIST
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 2:13am
  liberals, MARINE249, & they are sucked right in..it’s sad really. Idolizing a bunch of bullsh * t commie actors….
  
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Larry E
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:19pm
The local totally unbiased “newspaper” has been telling us how wonderful this travesty is for the past two years. And Mad Max Baucus who they proudly proclaim is its author (he’s not that smart), sent me an e-mail telling me that it was the best thing since sliced bread, chocolate ice cream, and a good wife. Like he’d know about the latter having been married at least three times.

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Homeschoolmama
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:15pm
I noticed while watching CSI: Miami the other day that the investigators violated someone’s 4th amendment right by searching his vehicle without a warrant or any evidence that he had committed the crime. It made me wonder if shows like that are being used to condition people to accept the police’s or government’s word without question. Now this confirms it.

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- TJexcite
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:17pm
  The problem with CSI is people also want the crime solved in 60 minutes and in jail. Not two a year trial.
  
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PointBreak
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:11pm
I hope they do start pushing Obamacare! It’ll free up time for me to spend with my family when we stop watching that crap. I’ll miss Sofia Vergara but otherwise good riddance Modern Family – thanks for the mammaries.

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- TRONINTHEMORNING
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:26pm
  Yep, I have enjoyed MODERN FAMILY; mostly because of Ed O’Neil. He’s always been pretty funny. They pull this embedded Obamacare crap on one episode this season–that will do it for me.
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:05pm
Well, I’ll be danged, I am surprised that Hussein isn’t making guest appearances on these shows, himself, but I guess they don’t want the ratings to drop even farther than they already have.
Yes, LT_SCROUNGE, I think we SHOULD let their sponsors know we will not buy their products if they do this. I am just so puzzled how such awful tv shows could be so popular, but then, I am not surrounded by drooling idiots,who watch TV all day, and laugh at fart jokes.

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- phrogdriver
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:12pm
  I would have to actually watch those shows to find out who the sponsors are before I could tell them I won’t do business with them.
  
  I’m not sure I am willing to make that sacrifice.
  
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IMAWAKENOW
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:02pm
This is why I can’t stand to watch TV anymore. I get so sick of the propoganda spewed on almost every show out there. I gave up watching mainstream news years ago. The problem is the people who haven’t got a clue about current events but get the same vote as those of us that are awake, work and pay our way.

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- Togger
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:23am
  I don’t watch any of those shows and either do my friends, mostly all conservatives. I suspect their audience is mostly the 35% who love Obamacare. For the same reason I don’t get too worked up over MSMBC or CNN bias. Consider who is watching them, the hard core left who are just having their views reinforced.
  
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- kcares
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 9:38am
  Gave up tv over 3yrs ago, and have so much more time to do other things. Do Not Miss iT. Netflix gives me something to look forward to in the mail. But there are just still too many uninformed people out there, and too many zombies that have to sit and stare.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:02pm
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The first thing Mitt Romney has vowed to do as President, is repeal ObamaCare.
Romney-Ryan 2012

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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:22pm
  If you think that will silence the liberal propagandists, you’re kidding yourself. It will only enrage them and make them more militant. Sad, but true.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:45pm
  A president can’t repeal anything.
  Take a civics lesson.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:27am
  He can take a que from Oblameus and write an Executive Order to repeal it and it will be repealed just like it was law. Seems to work for Oblameus, why not for Romney, tell me that, VERSE?
  
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- Brettfan
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 2:03am
  No Romney and Ryan will defund Obamacare with help from congress, not implement it and to stop the promotion of Obamacare. Then they have time to work to repeal it. And come up with the republican solution. Not Romneycare, but a real free market solution, hopefully, Rather just repeal Obamacare and do nothing else than have Romneycare replace Obamacare.
  
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- hold_my_stones
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 2:42am
  Enjoy the little bit of power your party has now, because its coming to an end. You libs had your chance and you can’t produce so time to step aside. Liberalsism will soon be dead, very soon my liberal adversary!
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 8:59am
  VerceOfSilliness, executive fiat seems to be a favored method of Ogabe, init?
  Given the heap of czars, he must feel like an emperor.
  
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JQCitizen
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:55pm
Happily “unplugged” from TV for two years now; So I will not see it. I wonder how many people even watch TV anymore?

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- CatB
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:05pm
  It is getting less and less .. soon I think I will most likely “unplug” also … I don’t watch much.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:37am
  I think we watch more stuff on Netflix than regular TV, but then we NEVER watched regular networks like ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, or MTV. We watch History channel, SyFy, ME-TV, USA, AMC, FX, and Fox News. The rest were just wasted money,
  
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phrogdriver
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:55pm
Gosh, Hollywood has been so subtle about their liberal bias over the past 40 years or so, I’m sure everyone will notice if they try to slip this in.

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SpaceCoyote
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:45pm
I remember when they used to hide the intent of propaganda. Now they just simply announce they’re conspiring with the gov. to decieve it’s people. They dont fear the people, they herd them.

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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:58pm
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  COYOTE…. So true.
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:45pm
You Do Not have to watch it before you vote for it….Or Against it.
Commiewood at work as usual.

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Kilmerfan
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:44pm
This is why I watch South Korean tv on hulu.

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Lt_Scrounge
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:43pm
How about we let the sponsors know how well we’ll support their products if the networks start pushing this propaganda?

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- oldguy49
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:50pm
  surprise ! surprise ! surprise !………………who said that hmmmm
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:53pm
  There is nothing to push -the supreme court said YES.
  What is wrong with you people.?
  
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:42pm
“Will Popular Television Shows Soon Begin Pushing ObamaCare?”

Stupid question. This has already been going on for years. If you haven’t seen/heard it, you haven’t been paying attention.

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- Baddoggy
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:56pm
  I work for a living. But i will take the word of a soap opera watcher i suppose…
  
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- EddieZ
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 1:00am
  The first show I remember with overt do-gooder-ism and political lectures was Quincy. Then came Designing Women, Law and Order, and, now, pretty much everything.
  
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Cosmos102
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:41pm
Not if Mitt Romney is elected.

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TXBrit
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:41pm
Marxist propaganda in action

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Lt_Scrounge
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:41pm
Wow Can you say PROPAGANDA that would make Goebbels proud?

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- christianUSA
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:29pm
  O-propaganda
  
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Gregb
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:40pm
I watched Blaze TV most of the day today. Dish channel 212. Better viewing for the mind

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:38pm
Wow, so ABC or any of the Networks would become political and push a Democrat agenda. I am sooooooooooooooooo surprised.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:59pm
  Kind of makes you wish the Hatch Act applied to Hollywood doesn’t it? Oh yeah, it applied to Kathleen Sebelius too, but 0bama smoothed it over with some additional training. Read that last word as actually bull sh/t.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:04pm
  @RJJ
  Katy Sabelius did something wrong????? Now I am reaaaaalllllllyyyyyyy shocked. Heart palpatations, this is the big one, I’m coming Ethel.
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:06pm
  If they are being paid to advocate a political position, then they should have to declare it in and out of every commercial break.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:09pm
  DARMOK AND JALAD AT TANAGRA, Yeah, imagine that. 0bama gave her even less that a slap on the wrist. Another thing to be amazed with.
  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81122.html
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:13pm
  They need to make a Hatch Act for Hollywood and call it the Hack Act.
  
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- The Third Archon
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:27pm
  A “Hatch Act equivalent” for private expression would be declared unconstitutional on 1st amendment grounds before the ink of the bill had dried.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:32pm
  Obama should have to declare these CAMPAIGN DONATIONS!
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:40pm
  Archon, if they are being paid to advocate for a political position, then they must declare it. How is that not Constitutional?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 16, 2012 at 12:23am
  THE THIRD ARCHON, You are right about that. I was simply being sarcastic for a touch of humor. Suppose that I should have mentioned that.
  
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