AARP and Linda Douglas Battle the Liars for Hire

This is one of the best public relations outreach efforts I have seen, and I have seen quite a few. It's simple, informative, convincing, and clear.

It's constructed around high-quality YouTube videos which answer common health care questions and myths.

In the era of the blog, it allows people to link with ease, or simply embed for maximum impact. Perfect.

I credit Linda Douglas for this. That's her in the clip, above. She used to be the Congressional health care reporter for ABC News, and then she was at the National Journal before the Obama Administration wooed her over to the hammer-and-nails side of public policy construction. A very smart hire if you ask me!

Do you have questions about health care reform? Good!

4Click here for answers. Learn about how:

• Reform will eliminate insurance discrimination against the disabled
• Medicare is safe and strong with reform
• Viral emails full of lies are being launched by corporate lobbyists
• How reform will stop rationing, not increase it
• What you need to know about the "euthanasia lie"
• How veteran health care is safe and sound
• How health reform will benefit small businesses

Are you a tin-foil-hat conservative who doesn't believe the White House? Fine. No reason to.

Appended below is my old friend John Rother at the AARP. John is as solid a man as exists in this town. The group he is talking about here is called "60 Plus" and it's one of those "liar for hire" front groups I first exposed about 14 years ago. And yes, John Rother was there then too, looking almost exactly as he does today.




Now, here's a thought. You know why the Republican party is terrified of health care reform?

It's not because it's going to be a failure.

Think about it.

If Obama signs an expensive, ineffective, and ultimately unpopular health care bill into law, nothing would be better for the GOP; they would regain control of the House and the Senate in the next election cycle and hold it for quite a while.

But if Obama and this Democrat-controlled Congress can make health care better and cheaper, and give it to everyone who is not an illegal alien, the stock of the Democratic Party will continue to rise quite a lot.

In short, if the GOP is fighting health care reform, it's NOT because they think it will be a failure. It's because they are terrified it will be a success.
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