Surgery for Seniors vs. Abortions?

hazlnut · Aug 4, 2009

Conservative partisans know the following 2 things to be true:

1)Nothing gets the GOP base riled up like abortion.

2)And absolutely nothing puts seniors on the war path like the fear of death.

So the Family Research Council came up with a clever ad to mislead the conservative base and seniors.

Family Research Council says abortions will trump care for the elderly in public plan.

Summary
An anti-abortion group’s TV ad shows a white-haired man fretting that under a federal health plan, "They won’t pay for my surgery, but we’re forced to pay for abortions."

“Will this be our future?” the ad asks, merging the fears of seniors worried about their health care with those of anti-abortion advocates. “Our greatest generation, denied care. Our future generation, denied life."

In fact, none of the health care overhaul measures that have made it through the committee level in Congress say that abortion will be covered, and one of them explicitly says that no public funds will be used to finance the procedure. Furthermore, none of the bills call explicitly for cuts in Medicare coverage, much less rationing, under a public plan.

The bills leave the specifics of what medical services would be covered up to advisory panels that are supposed to make recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services, and ultimately up to the secretary of that department. Whether she or he would choose to cover abortions under any new federal plan is something we can’t predict. Our crystal ball functions no better on the topic of whether the elderly, or anyone else for that matter, will get the care they need under such a plan or under Medicare.

#2 example as requested by LaMidRighter

formerroadie · Aug 4, 2009

Thanks for posting these. I look forward to seeing you post more as they appear. I know there will be a plethora of examples.

Oftencold · Aug 4, 2009

Actually, this Republican get riled up by poor punctuation. There should be a space after the closed parenthesis following your numerals.

The actual text doesn't seem to have much of a point.

formerroadie · Aug 5, 2009

Oftencold said:
The actual text doesn't seem to have much of a point.

That is what all of you say when you don't agree with a post. Here is a good translation of your comment: 'facts don't matter.'

sam_w · Aug 5, 2009

formerroadie said:
That is what all of you say when you don't agree with a post. Here is a good translation of your comment: 'facts don't matter.'

Could not have said it any better.

As I keep saying over and over; What does this say about one's argument when they are required to lie so blatantly?

Everyone makes mistakes, and people should be given a lot of leeway when they make an honest mistake. But these are not simple mistakes now are they? They are the most vile of dishonest propaganda, used to play on people's fear. Is that ALL the right can do to argue? Is this sadly just how far they have fallen into disarray?

I find it now as absolutely no surprise that Susan Eisenhower left the Republican party, and I have absolutely no doubt that if Ike was alive today he would gladly burn his party registration. Good god, even Richard Nixon or Gerald Ford could get elected as a Republican these days.

Surgery for Seniors vs. Abortions?

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