Unreal… Obama's Organizing for America Website Running Astroturfed 'Letter to the Editor' Campaign Complete With Instructional Video
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, April 11, 2010, 3:58 PM
They know their nationalized health care plan is a dog.
Most Americans oppose it. Only 1 of 3 Americans like it.
So the King of Astroturf is running a letter to the editor campaign on his Organizing for America website and in an email to supporters.
The astroturfers want you to flood your local newspaper with letters in support of Obamacare.
Getting Paid to Watch has the letter sent out by Joe Biden to Obama supporters.
The Organizing for America website includes these tips for writing your letter:
Note: These points are only to provide extra information and suggestions. Do not use these points verbatim. Your letter must be original and should focus on your personal views and experiences. Remember that your personal story is the most powerful way of getting the message out.
* Passing health reform is a historic victory for all Americans – for families, seniors, young people, workers, and small businesses alike. All Americans will now have the security of knowing that they don’t risk losing the American dream if they get sick or are in an accident.
* Passing this legislation isn’t just a victory for the American people, it’s a victory over special interests who have fought for decades to keep families and businesses from controlling their own health care.
* Insurance companies will be held accountable – they will no longer be able to hike up premiums, deny care when you need it most or deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
* It guarantees all Americans affordable health insurance options, extending coverage to 32 million who are currently uninsured.
* Americans can now be secure in knowing that if they become unemployed, change jobs, or start a new business, the new health insurance market will keep costs down and provide them with quality, affordable options.
* And it will improve the country’s fiscal health – cutting over 1 trillion dollars from the federal deficit over the next two decades.
The email also includes a video like this one promoting the often repeated democratic lie that Obamacare will cover 30,000,000 Americans with insurance including those with pre-existing conditions while reducing the budget at the same time.
What a crock.
Now, wasn’t it Nancy Pelosi who accused the tea party protesters of being astroturfed by the Republican Party?
Someone needs to send her this email.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 86 Comments
NeoKong commented:
They know they went too far and now they are scrambling to contain the damage.
They can astro-turf all they want because the two sides of this have already congealed and no one is going to cross over.
They are toast in November which is quickly approaching and there is nothing they can do about it.
They cannot smear and lie their way out of this mess that they made.
They own it ….lock ,stock and barrel.
myohmy commented:
That’s what you call projection, democrats are good in paid astroturfing.
JPL17 commented:
NOVEMBER 2, 2010.
manateespirit commented:
I don’t know what happened in November 2008. Bush fatigue and hatred overcame some people who lost their minds and voted for Obama. The media helped in that regard, but too much has happened in underhanded methods during Obama’s tenure for the voters to be fooled and ignorant again. The Dems can publish as many letters as they want, it won’t make a difference. People know this bill is bad for them and the country.
justpassingthrough commented:
We saw this movie before with the Ellie Light letters.
Dipso Facto commented:
I don’t know what happened in November 2008.
It was a (sorry for this hackneyed phrase) “perfect storm” that swept Obama into office.
1. People were sick of the Republicans, because Bush and Rove had very stupidly decided not to defend themselves for eight whole years. The rest of the GOP followed suit.
2. The economy was tanking, and Americans always choose Democrats when the economy is bad. (Don’t ask me why. The soaring rhetoric and Christmas-y promises, I guess.)
3. We were fighting two protracted wars perceived as not going well. Americans hate protracted wars and blame the party in power for not winning them.
4. McCain was just a horrible candidate. The fact that he got as close as he did shows that Americans didn’t and don’t support a radical shift to the left.
5. Obama was a perfect TV president, and the gods of TV (Oprah, Letterman, all the news anchors except those on Fox) championed him.
6. Obama is the first black president. Many Americans have internalized the charge of racism and wanted to prove that they could be really kind to black people. It was an act of racial charity.
7. Many Americans were swept up in the fad of Obama mania. American consumers love change. They love “new and different.”
None of these reason boded well for Obama, and now we’re seeing what happens when people elect an incompetent, clueless, terminally unreal president for all the wrong reasons.
Deb commented:
I actually saw this letter in a northern Michigan newspaper submitted by a doctor from Traverse City. I thought it rang false – a little too “talking point-ish.” But, they will get published.
avery commented:
The young people vote for Obama because they didn”t live through Jimmy Carter what Depso Fact 6#is true every one wanted change but not what we getting
Dave commented:
Kenyan-born spend spend spend
The Jimmy Z Show commented:
Join me won’t you, and write comments beneath the Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhYRJ11ZRO8
gus commented:
Here is my advice to the MARXISTS and IDIOTS who need Obama because they are losers.
Dear Editor,
I am love President Obama. His glistening pecs and his cigarette breath get me turgid.
Please print my letter and I promise to buy your failing yellow rag dinosaur newspaper.
That is all.
Joseph Stalin
San Francisco.
That will get published.
retired military commented:
Google some of the phrases above.
The idiots are using the talking points verbatim.
Not unexpected.
down with dems commented:
Remember during the election when everyone was asking “what is a community organizer?” This is what a community organizer does. Scams, cheats, and games the system. And that’s the set of values and goals belonging to the man who currently runs our country. Scary.
The Jimmy Z Show commented:
CORRECTIONS:
* Passing health reform is a historic defeat of Americans – who were quite clear when they called, wrote and rallied to tell the socialist-Democrats that they did not want this in our country. All Americans will now have the horror of knowing that they have likely lost the American dream of liberty and freedom.
* Passing this legislation isn’t just a defeat for the American people, it’s a defeat of patriots who have fought tirelessly to keep families and businesses from being controlled by the socialist Democrats in DC.
* Insurance companies will be put out of business – they will no longer be able to make a reasonable profit, so when they refuse to write new policies, you will have to come to the federal government for medical insurance.
* It screws all Americans with less health insurance options, supposedly extending coverage to 32 million who are currently uninsured, but there are not enough doctors and nurses to care for all of these Americans.
* Americans can now be very worried, because if they become unemployed, change jobs, or start a new business, the new health insurance market will limit their choices and provide them with lower quality and less affordable options.
* And it will make worse the country’s fiscal health – causing more companies to lay off more workers, and while it claims to cut 1 trillion dollars from the federal deficit over the next two decades, it will instead create enormous increases in deficit spending and federal debt.
Palinfan commented:
I put a little list together that you can send to your friends. Pardon for the long post. Here goes:
Here are reasons to demand your representative repeal Obamacare:
The UN loves Obamacare.
17,000 new IRS agents will be hired to force you to pay.
No money for doctors or nurses.
Taxes on anything considered a ‘medical device’.
Tampons are a ‘medical device’.
Many, many taxes, fees, new agencies to be created.
Your medical records are NO LONGER private.
Taxpayer funded abortion for all.
Muslims and Amish are exempt for religious reasons.
Christians are forced to fund abortions unlike Muslims and Amish.
Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs are funded by YOU for rapists, pedophiles and other sex offenders (Incredibly, Liberals shot down Republican attempts to stop this).
Funding for Native American child molesters.
Fidel Castro declared passage of the bill ‘a miracle’.
Government takeover of student loans attached to obamacare – nothing to do with health.
Many Obamacare ‘solutions’ don’t start for years, taxes start immediately.
This bill, modeled on the European Socialist system, will lead to healthcare rationing.
Obama and the Democrat leadership are exempt from the healthcare coverage in this bill.
This bill was rushed through the Senate on Christmas Eve when few would notice.
This bill was rushed through the House near midnight on a Sunday when few would notice.
This bill in many polls has been overwhelmingly rejected by the American people.
Not one Republican voted for this bill, a number of Democrats voted against it as well.
Republicans offered commonsense healthcare solutions which Obama completely ignored.
Senator Max Baucus recorded admitting healthcare bill only about redistribution of wealth.
Section 5210 creates a ‘Ready Reserve Corps’ – an army-sized force for “involuntary calls to active duty during national emergencies and public health crises.” (Obama’s personal ‘health army’).
AT&T, 3M, Caterpillar, Prudential, Verizon, AK Steel, many other large corporations already report devastating effects of health care bill on their company profits.
Located in this bill is the Class Act, which employers can use to force you to $150-$240 a month from your paycheck to save for possible long-term care.
Taxes for everyone have already started for this bill, no healthcare coming for years yet.
Four years of taxation that the government assures us won’t be raided or used for something else besides healthcare so that when Obamacare finally arrives, we actually have the money still.
On Flex spending accounts, a hidden tax on employees.
Starting in 2014, anyone who chooses not to buy health insurance faces a small federal penalty, but in 2016 the fine jumps to $695 a year per person or 2.5 percent of overall income, whichever is greater. That means that anyone earning more than $27,800 would be subject to increasing penalties, with a maximum fine of $2,085 per family.
Individuals who don’t purchase health insurance may lose their tax refunds according to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman.
This is what has been found hidden in this 3000 page horror in the FIRST WEEK. More to come!
dfsfs commented:
Why not just save Obama’s folks the trouble and send every media outlet this information, maybe then they will get pissed off every time they get astroturf letters from the drones.
IF we do hot hold the media accountable nobody will, if we do not hold the media accountable we will have nobody to blame but ourselves.
Auntie Em commented:
More proof that the progressives are morbidly scared out of their minds and for good reason.
No letter to the editor, no matter how many times they repeat the same tired verbatim talking points…WE WOKE UP. Period. We are immune to the Kool-aid they are gleefully drinking.
Reload.
Auntie Em commented:
I am amused though that they think this will work.
The only thing working are the finger of those who still live in their parent’s basement cranking out these astroturfed letters to the editors to papers no self-respecting person reads anymore.
Valerie commented:
What? It’s astroturfing in the Repubs ask people to write in on an issue, and it’s good politics if the election campaign for a sitting president hands out talking points and solicits letters?
suuuuure.
William Teach commented:
I used the site to send a letter out to all the local and national newspapers that was highly critical of the health destruction plan, as well as my local Dem rep, Brad Miller, and NC Senator Kay “Missing In Action” Hagan.
anna satterfield commented:
to all Americans…..REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER
GET THESE LOSERS OUT OF OFFICE AND BACK TO THEIR CULT
bill-tb commented:
Too bad Nixon didn’t think of this. I am sure the lapdog media would have kept it quite for him.
This is like watching the ‘cargo cult’ people.
Allea commented:
Hey @William Teach,
We share a sucky senator in Kay Hagan, and I have an equally sucky rep in David Price. I’m going to use the site to do the same thing…I get a little thrill out of using Obama’s tools against him…
Chisum commented:
The White House Phone Rang at 3 a.m.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/04/11/the-white-house-phone-rang-at-3-am/
Joanne commented:
Obamacare isn’t even free – the U.S. government is just going to be the one and only health insurance company.
Derak commented:
Copy the talking points they cover and craft a letter using them verbatim. Send the email 200x times. Sign it “David Plouffe told me to do this” Maybe the dinosaurs will actually, er, um get a clue?
Sandy from Chesterfield commented:
“Insurance companies will be held accountable – they will no longer be able to hike up premiums, deny care when you need it most or deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions.”
They did not include that insurance companies will have to spend 85% of their income on claims. Doesn’t leave enough for expenses does it or is that the plan? Profit is also bad, bad, bad.
ic commented:
Ellie Lighting for America.
dem no more commented:
Don’t you just love the leftists and democratic stench of fear and desperation on a nice spring day!
Joe Blow commented:
They are going back to the playbook here because touting sh***y nationalized health care plans is what the left has been doing for years. The supposed abundance of doctors in the Warsaw Pact countries was held up as an example of the superiority of their political system, and of course we have the never-ending comparison to Cuba, where “at least health care is free.”
So really this is just Castroturf.
Dave commented:
No problem.
So few people read newspapers anymore, and it’s mostly libs anyway. They’re preaching to the converted.
“do not use these verbatim”… heh… do libs know what “verbatim” means?
Dave commented:
btw… crashing a car, THEN buying insurance and demanding the insurance company pay to fix your car, is a ‘pre-existing condition’. Likewise calling the home insurance company to buy a policy while your house is on fire. If something is already wrong with you, the ability to use statistics/odds/calculations to make a profit is no longer in play. Now it is a dead loss from day 1. Insurance is about chances, not certainties. Buy it while you’re young and healthy, and if you happen to get sick, later, it will cover you. But if you buy it while you’re already sick, the company will have to charge you higher premiums to cover their CERTAIN near future costs. the ‘odds’ don’t apply, and it is no longer health insurance you’re talking about, but simple redistribution of $$$.
Robeert commented:
Disguising lobbying and interest group manipulation of the press and the electorate (astroturfing) is not new. Nor is it strictly the province of the Democratic party. Though I am no fan of his, William Greider described it in detail in his book “Who Will Tell the People?” at least 10 year ago.
Its been used for decades by both mainstream parties and many vested interests to produce the appearance of popular support. This is why the Founders saw the need for an informed electorate.
The blogoshpere is one of the best ways to bring this deceptive process into the light. Though the Web tends to narrowcast to those on one side of the democratic contest and therefore becomes a device of vilification for the other side, it is ubiquitous.
Best if informed citizens, voters and taxpayers recognize astroturfing for what it is (a form of public choice economics and policy manipulation).
Robert Fuller
Hanson commented:
We had our 6 or 8 obamascam love letters printed in the local AP rag a few days ago. They were lumped together on the editorial age and contained all of those “I was dying, my sister was dying, and everyone I know was dying because we couldn’t get health care, but now the sun will come out tomorrow” robo-speak. It was absolutely sickening.
Ex Dem commented:
if you do a search of the talking points you’ll find many a letter are in fact written verbatim. The lefty morons can’t even follow simple instructions. Most letters start march 27-april 3rd as the date they were printed.
Letters to the Editor- verbatim OfA talking points:
Baltimore Sun-March 27
Morning Journal-March 28
TriValley Central-March 29
Fosters-March 30
Pasadena Citizen-March 30
Napa Valley Register- March 30
Deer park Broadcaster-March 31
New Times- March 31
Shelbyville Time Gazette-April 1
San Gabriel Valley Tribune-April 2
Citizens Voice-April 2
Times news online-April 3
GoErie-April 3
Santa Fe-April 4
Lots more out there with identical talking points that OFA told their idiot followers to put in their own words but they didn’t
RebeccaH commented:
Why bother sending the email to Pelosi. This kind of thing is right up her alley.
Anee commented:
very simple.
REMOVE THEM NOW. PUT THEM ON TRIAL FOR TREASON. MAKE THEM SHAKE IN THERE BOOTS, PICKET ANY DEMOCRATIC BOOTH THEY SET UP. IT IS TIME TO FIGHT FOR OUR KIDS. IT IS TIME TO SAY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AND DO NOT PASS GO INSTEAD GO DIRECTLY TO PRISON FOREVER>
DirtCrashr commented:
The Sierra Club’s been doing this for years, it’s what the Left does – besides turning your email around and inverting it in a bullsh*t “thanks for agreeing with me” semantic reversal.
hatedogg commented:
you all sound like grumpy old white people…oh my bad, you are!!!