'Defaced flag' video is finalist in DNC contest...

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  • Fuct Jup
    Head Fluffer
    • Nov 2006
    • 236

    'Defaced flag' video is finalist in DNC contest...

    What the FUCK has this country become? Proud to be a democrat?

    One of the 20 finalists in health care video contest run by Barack Obama’s campaign arm features a mural of an America flag splattered with health care graffiti until it’s covered completely by black paint.

    In the video – which is accompanied by the sound of a heart monitor pumping and then flat-lining – words such as “pre-existing conditions,” “homeless” and “death panel” ultimately obliterate the flag, which reappears on screen seconds later with the words “Health Will Bring Our Country Back to Life” on the blue field where the 50 stars usually are.

    According to the Organizing for American Web site, the 20 finalists in the “Health Reform Video Challenge” were chosen by a panel of “qualified” Democratic National Committee “employee judges.”

    A contestant whose video didn’t make the final-20 cut complains that a video “defacing the flag” won’t do much to help President Barack Obama or the Democrats sell health care reform.

    “They should never pick that,” said the contestant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “It makes the Democrats look really, really bad.”


    A spokesman for Organizing for America said the group was not prepared to provide immediate comment on the video, which, according to the OFA Web site, was produced by Daniel Lahoda and Saber.

    According to the OFA Web site, the 20 finalists will be judged by the public and a panel of experts that includes DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, Obama campaign chief David Plouffe, Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), singer will.i.am and Hollywood stars Rosario Dawson and Dule Hill.
    Anything left in that bottle?
  • ELVIS
    Banned
    • Dec 2003
    • 44120

    #2
    I found no such video...

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    • FORD
      ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

      • Jan 2004
      • 59362

      #3
      Meanwhile, over at the RNC's Facebook page........





      wow.... you would think that Michael Steele, at least, would have a problem with such blatant, "light up the crosses and pass the white sheets" RACISM.
      Eat Us And Smile

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      "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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      • FORD
        ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

        • Jan 2004
        • 59362

        #4
        Originally posted by ELVIS
        I found no such video...
        I doubt you will, either. Just more repuke hysteria (with no links)
        Eat Us And Smile

        Cenk For America 2024!!

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        "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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        • Nickdfresh
          SUPER MODERATOR

          • Oct 2004
          • 49394

          #5
          Email chainspam + no links = D-U-M-P in 5...4..3......

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          • FORD
            ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

            • Jan 2004
            • 59362

            #6
            Originally posted by Nickdfresh
            Email chainspam + no links = D-U-M-P in 5...4..3......
            Did 4morequeers change his name?
            Eat Us And Smile

            Cenk For America 2024!!

            Justice Democrats


            "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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            • Fuct Jup
              Head Fluffer
              • Nov 2006
              • 236

              #7
              Originally posted by FORD
              I doubt you will, either. Just more repuke hysteria (with no links)


              Organizing for America | BarackObama.com | Health Reform Video Challenge

              As a heart monitor beeps ominously in the background, a graffiti artist paints over the Stars and Stripes with phrases criticizing opposition to the Democratic legislation, including 'profit over life' and the crossed-out words 'death panels.' The whole flag is eventually smeared with paint and blacked out.
              Last edited by Fuct Jup; 10-29-2009, 04:38 PM.
              Anything left in that bottle?

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              • Nickdfresh
                SUPER MODERATOR

                • Oct 2004
                • 49394

                #8
                Boy, that's some "flag." Paint on a brick wall that sort of resembles a star-less flag and what essentially is time-lapse animation...

                Wow, how shocking! Now we can focus on things other than middle class people going bankrupt due to medical bills and the fact that their shitty, overpriced health insurance didn't cover them...

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                • Fuct Jup
                  Head Fluffer
                  • Nov 2006
                  • 236

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Nickdfresh
                  Boy, that's some "flag." Paint on a brick wall that sort of resembles a star-less flag and what essentially is time-lapse animation...

                  Wow, how shocking! Now we can focus on things other than middle class people going bankrupt due to medical bills and the fact that their shitty, overpriced health insurance didn't cover them...
                  Yes - let us focus. You think that once Big Govt takes over Healthcare its going to be cheaper? This so called Healthcare reform is just a tax.

                  Insurance 101
                  Posted 10/13/2009 07:03 PM ET


                  Health Care: Another day, another lesson. The Baucus plan is the latest scheme to collide with economic reality, proving once again that Congress doesn't understand the system it claims to be reforming.

                  Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was probably feeling pretty good last week after the Congressional Budget Office came up with a nice deficit number for his slimmed-down plan to overhaul health insurance in America. Then came a teaching moment.

                  Over the weekend, the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans released a study saying Baucus' plan would hammer the middle class with huge increases in premiums and taxes. The study has stirred things up because it makes a case resting on acknowledged facts. You might call them the iron laws of insurance.

                  One of these is that the extension of coverage to a higher-risk group will raise costs for everyone, because the average level of risk in the entire pool of insureds goes up. Another is the law of large numbers: The more low-risk people you can get in your pool, the lower you can set your premiums. Another is adverse selection, the inevitable tendency of the highest-risk people wanting your insurance the most, and the lowest-risk wanting it the least.

                  These laws are, in effect, walls that Congress and the Obama administration keep hitting in their efforts to make health coverage universal without breaking the bank. Their idea is to get as many people as possible — especially the low-risk young and healthy — into the insurance pool as premium payers. In this universal system, adverse selection is no longer a factor, and insurers can cover the high-risk folks along with everyone else.

                  That's the theory. But when it comes down to drafting laws, there's always an insurmountable hurdle. One is that health care costs so much that people either can't afford the premiums or accept the risk of bankruptcy. Another is that the government's resources are finite and subsidizing premiums in today's waste-ridden system risks bankrupting the country.

                  Finally, forcing people to buy insurance (through penalties at tax time or whenever) is easier to talk about than enact. The Baucus plan punted on this issue, setting penalties too low to force many reluctant buyers into the insurance pool.

                  The AHIP study seized on this shortcoming, concluding that the Baucus plan would fail to fill the pool on the low-risk side and would raise premiums by taxing high-end plans. The higher costs and low penalties for going without insurance would encourage more people to postpone coverage until they got sick. Then, the insurers would have to take them, raising premiums for everyone.

                  Investors.com - Insurance 101
                  Anything left in that bottle?

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                  • Nickdfresh
                    SUPER MODERATOR

                    • Oct 2004
                    • 49394

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Fuct Jup
                    Yes - let us focus. You think that once Big Govt takes over Healthcare its going to be cheaper? This so called Healthcare reform is just a tax.

                    Insurance 101
                    Posted 10/13/2009 07:03 PM ET


                    ...
                    Over the weekend, the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans released a study saying Baucus' plan would hammer the middle class with huge increases in premiums and taxes. The study has stirred things up because it makes a case resting on acknowledged facts. You might call them the iron laws of insurance.

                    One of these is that the extension of coverage to a higher-risk group will raise costs for everyone....
                    Investors.com - Insurance 101


                    Yeah, let's fucking focus.

                    In other news, Josef Goebbels says "Nazis are great!" And, "what Jews?"

                    As for your "teachable moment," try not learning from self serving biased assholes spewing special interest propaganda and buying off a politician near you...

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                    • GAR
                      Banned
                      • Jan 2004
                      • 10881

                      #11
                      What is the sales commission Warren Buffet would get on a 2-trillion dollar health insurance policy for the entire country if this shit legislation passes?

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                      • sadaist
                        TOASTMASTER GENERAL
                        • Jul 2004
                        • 11625

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Nickdfresh
                        Boy, that's some "flag." Paint on a brick wall that sort of resembles a star-less flag

                        Yeah, weird how someone could think they were using the American flag image there. I don't see it at all.
                        “Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”

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                        • sadaist
                          TOASTMASTER GENERAL
                          • Jul 2004
                          • 11625

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Nickdfresh
                          sort of resembles a star-less flag

                          Obviously Obama had nothing to do with this. Since the "star-less" marks on it are actually the correct number of 50. LOL @ "sort of resembles"....


                          “Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”

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                          • FORD
                            ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

                            • Jan 2004
                            • 59362

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Fuct Jup
                            Over the weekend, the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans released a study saying Baucus' plan would hammer the middle class with huge increases in premiums and taxes.
                            Even the insurance criminals hate Baucus' shit bill?

                            I guess that makes it unanimous.
                            Eat Us And Smile

                            Cenk For America 2024!!

                            Justice Democrats


                            "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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                            • Nickdfresh
                              SUPER MODERATOR

                              • Oct 2004
                              • 49394

                              #15
                              Originally posted by sadaist
                              Obviously Obama had nothing to do with this. Since the "star-less" marks on it are actually the correct number of 50. LOL @ "sort of resembles"....


                              They look like retarded stars, and it's paint on a brick wall. But again, keep getting all upset over meaningless chickenshit while your gov't is bought and sold...

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