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people from having their speech
scrutinized — whether it comes in
a campaign ad or not.
Not that the Examiner is antiscrutiny! “No one is arguing in
favor of misleading political ads,”
they write. “But what’s important
here are the facts no one disputes:
Boonstra’s health insurance was
canceled due to federal regulations, she was forced to restructure her care while suffering from
a deadly disease and Peters did
vote for Obamacare.”
It reminds one of an ad that ran
in the 2012 campaign cycle, from
Obama-supporting super PAC
Priorities USA Action.
Here are some facts that no
one disputes: Joe Soptic worked
at a steel plant, Bain Capital invested in the company that ran
this plant, the plant was closed,
Soptic lost his job, his wife died
of cancer. But the claim that Mitt
Romney was somehow culpable
in Soptic’s wife’s death was a grotesque lie. Glenn Kessler said of
this ad, “On just every level, this
ad stretches the bounds of common sense and decency.” That is
100 percent correct. And at the
time, the Washington Examiner
could not agree more, never mind
Soptic’s First Amendment rights.
LOOKING FORWARD
IN ANGST
HUFFINGTON
03.02.14
My advice to Americans for
Prosperity is that if they want
to create an attack ad around an
Obamacare victim, they should
go out and find one whose claims
actually authentically fit the bill.
Look for people whose premiums
have increased or the ones who actually had to break the continuity
of their care by shopping around
for a new doctor. Then they’ll get
themselves a “true” rating from
The First Amendment
doesn’t protect people
from having their speech
scrutinized — whether it
comes in a campaign ad or not.”
the fact-checkers to celebrate.
By the way, if you’re interested
in what the American Cancer Society thinks about Obamacare, well,
they are for it. And if you find the
implications of the new l aw “confusing” or “overwhelming,” they
have “a staff of trained experts
available to answer questions,
free of charge,” through a 24-hour
hotline. They promise to keep it
politics-free, which, for cancer patients, is probably a pretty
good prescription.