DEM rep threatens licenses of tv stations showing lukemia obamacare victim.

[powderman]

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/117348-dem-rep-threatens-go-licenses-tv-stations-airing-obamacare-ad-featuring-lukemia-victim/
 
 
Dem Rep Threatens Licenses Of TV Stations Airing ObamaCare Ad Featuring Leukemia Victim                                                                                               

• Mike Miller
• On February 24, 2014
• http://mikesright.wordpress.com/

                     Julie Boonstra is not only struggling with leukemia, she is being called a liar by a Democrat congressman for sharing her story in an anti-ObamaCare ad. The rep. is also threatening stations that run the ad.
 
The ad by Americans for Prosperity features Boonstra talking about how her health insurance coverage was canceled due to ObamaCare, and saying that Michigan Rep. Gary Peters “jeopardized my health” by voting for the troubled healthcare plan.
The ad is airing in Michigan as Peters seeks the Democratic nomination to replace Sen. Carl Levin (D- MI), who is not seeking re-election.
The uncertainty of having to restructure her healthcare plan while coping with a deadly disease is troubling to Boonstra:
 >“People are asking me for the numbers [new healthcare costs]; that’s the heartbreak of all of this. It’s the uncertainty of not having those numbers that I have an issue with, because I always knew what I was paying and now I don’t, and I haven’t gone through the tests or seen my specialist yet.” The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” gave the ad ”two Pinocchios” (as compared to four Pinocchios for Obama’s claim that people could keep their insurance if they liked it), claiming Boonstra could find “comparable coverage” for a “comparable cost” under a new ObamaCare plan.
 
Rep. Peters is threatening to go after the licenses of TV stations that broadcast the Boonstra ObamaCare ad.
What do you think? Is Boonstra’s case justified – or his Peters’ attempt to silence her and go after the licenses of TV stations that run the ad justifiable? In either case, Julie Boonstra is not the ideal “poster girl” that the president and proponents of ObamaCare like to flaunt.

[DDZ]

The lies haven't been told often enough yet for everyone to believe them. They certainly don't want any truth circulating on public television.   

[m-g Willy]

The demon-rats need to drop the donkey symbol and use a SWASTIKA  because they are #$@#$ NAZI's.

[powderman]

Obamacare is doing what it was designed to do. Hurt Americans, destroy jobs, cut hours, raise premiums, drasticly cut benefits, etc. All part of husseins plan to destroy America. POWDERMAN. 

[two-blocked]

What comes after a destroyed America?

[tobster]

    Peters sends his lawyer to call her a liar, but doesn't have the balls to appear in the flesh  to defend his position.

[lgm270]

As much as I have grown to dislike the GOP, the Democrats are the lowest of the lows.

[sethk]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/02/20/a-hard-hitting-anti-obamacare-ad-makes-a-claim-that-doesnt-add-up/

[Dixie Dude]

Someone asked, What comes after Obama destroys America?  You have to read your history of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.  You create a dictatorship to "fix" everything that is wrong with one party rule.  Extreme liberal socialism = communism.  Extreme conservative socialism = facism or Nazism.  Both bad.  The bigger the federal government gets and the more people who are "dependent" on it, the easier for take over by one political party. 

[powderman]

Someone asked, What comes after Obama destroys America?  You have to read your history of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.  You create a dictatorship to "fix" everything that is wrong with one party rule.  Extreme liberal socialism = communism.  Extreme conservative socialism = facism or Nazism.  Both bad.  The bigger the federal government gets and the more people who are "dependent" on it, the easier for take over by one political party.

 
DIXIE DUDE. Exactly. I really don't believe that Obama intends to leave office voluntarily. POWDERMAN. 

[Casull]

 

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         You're ignoring the topic (dem rep going after broadcast licenses because he doesn't like ad), to go after the underlying ad.  Not an unusual tactic though.

[sethk]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/02/20/a-hard-hitting-anti-obamacare-ad-makes-a-claim-that-doesnt-add-up/

         You're ignoring the topic (dem rep going after broadcast licenses because he doesn't like ad), to go after the underlying ad.  Not an unusual tactic though.

I wasn't trying to ignore the topic (and I dare say that I was more on topic than many of the other posts in this thread) but wanted to add a little extra context. Certainly, the veracity of the add has bearing on wether or not the campaigns actions were appropriate.  You say it was about this guy "going after broadcast licenses because he doesn't like ad." Presumbly, most candidates dislike all ads against them or for their opponents, but here the may be some actual merits to the ad being illegal due to possible deceptiveness. It may be an entirely truthful ad, or not sufficiently misleading as to be deemed false advertising, it's hard to tell with what we know and I am not sure that  the Democratic candidates response was, in fact, appropriate. I do, however think it's worth considering actually considering since it might have as much to say about campaign tactics used by and against both sides that strike blows against opponents by making dubious claims, that even if false still affect opinion and results.m

[tobster]

        Julie Boonstra has gone on air and defended her position and the reason she feels the ad  is accurate. Where is Peters?

[SHOOTALL]

What comes after a destroyed America?

Communism I would expect as it is by far the easiest govt. to set up. Take power and kill off all opposition ! See Comrade easy.