Posted by
grad_1986 on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:20:53 PM
Well its too bad Billy Mays has already endorsed a Health-Care company or else he would be the perfect pitch-man for Obama's one-size-fits-all health-care system. He could pitch how "inexpensive" (if you are a millionaire) it will be and how Obama will cure all the major diseases (after all if he can make the ocean levels fall, why not cure all the sick while you are at it too!).
But instead, Obama will have to do his 1 HOUR infomercial on ABC without Billy's help. We are told that everyday people will be able to submit questions to the president via their web-site, but who here believes that we will here actual people. Gone are the fireside chats of Rosevelt and Reagan to talk to the people. Now we will have an over-glorified commercial filled with heartache cases of people with no insurance because the big-bad-insurance-company dropped their coverage ( little will be said that these people smoked 2 packs a day and ate bacon-eggs-and -gravy every day of their life) We will see the president put his arm around an elderly person or cancer victim and tell them that he is going to make sure they get the coverage they need. Music befitting a tear-jerking Hollywood drama will play in the background and pull on our heart-strings (and later our wallet-strings). No debate over taxes or costs will be mentioned, for we should not belittle the debate with anything so petty as money (after all whats a few trillion among friends and family). We will be urged that, "We are our brothers keeper" and that BIG-brother needs to make sure that all the litte-brothers are taken care of.
I won't be watching this infomercial. I think it's egregious to have government in bed with our media. This is a replay of the progressive movement in the 20's and 30's where newspapers and movies did the dirty work of the government and painted rosy pictures of Rosevelt as sort of god-like figure that could do no wrong. We are being sold a bucket of crap and we need to let them know we aren't buying.
I urge everyone to call or write ABC and let them know you are NOT WATCHING the Obama infomercial