Fact checks? Who cares?
by digby
Senator Reid has been taking to the Senate floor to excoriate the Kochs for their lies and manipulations. He's backed up by fact checkers who have exposed these lies and manipulations. Guess what? They don't need no stinkin' fact checkers.
This is what Americans for Prosperity is sending out to their members:
Sit down, and shut up.
That's the message Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is sending to you and everyone else who has the courage to speak out against ObamaCare.
Thankfully, attacks from powerful politicians won't silence Julie Boonstra, who is refusing to be intimidated by bullies like Senator Harry Reid and Congressman Gary Peters.
For the third time in a week, Sen. Reid took the Senate floor yesterday -- not to address the failures of ObamaCare -- but to attack the credibility of Americans for Prosperity and victims who have been hurt by the law.
It's clear that Sen. Reid and ObamaCare proponents are desperate to shift attention away from the health care law's failures. Rather than admit that ObamaCare isn't working, he is lashing out at single moms, cancer patients, and other victims who have the courage to speak out.
Senator Reid knows that ObamaCare is hurting millions of Americans -- that's why he's so desperate to shift media and public attention elsewhere.
It's absurd that Sen. Reid is trying to lecture Americans on credibility, when he has been one of the most vocal defenders of President Obama's "Lie of the Year."
At the end of the day, these attacks from the left don't change the facts about ObamaCare -- a law that is leading to cancelled plans, higher costs, and lost access to doctors.
Thank you for your support, and for continuing to stand with the millions of Americans who have been hurt by ObamaCare.
Will you forward this email along to 3 friends or family members, and ask them to add their names, too?
Keep fighting!
Tim Phillips
AFP President
The people who want to believe that Obamacare is destroying America are going to believe it, no matter what. There are a lot of those people. Fact checks aren't going to make much of a difference.
What Reid is doing is pretty smart. He's keeping the focus on the Kochs rather than the deluded citizens who refuse to accept that they don't know what they're talking about. But a lot of people are going to be seeing ads featuring regular citizens complaining about Obamacare. Republicans will believe them. The question is how many other people will.
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