Here is an ad that is running currently against health care reform and that touts the evils of socialized medicine.
This spot is paid for by Americans for Prosperity, which, as I noted in an earlier post, "are committed to educating citizens about economic policy and mobilizing those citizens as advocates". Their President is Tim Phillips. He is a professional political strategist. One of their Directors is is James C. Miller, a former Budget Director under President Reagan. This ad is currently running in 11 states and Washington DC and has a production budget of $1.8 million dollars. I could think of such more productive uses for that kind of money... but I digress.
After doing some research, we have discovered that the woman in this ad had a benign brain cyst, not a cancerous tumor. Other medical professionals have concurred that this form of lesion is not life threatening and do not require immediate treatment.
This just goes to show that you can bend the truth into whatever scary shape you want to if you try hard enough.
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