GOP Touts Hoax Memo To Back Up Their HCR Propaganda
Naughty, naughty, naughty. Using a faked memo to catapult your propaganda? Smells of desperation:
The memo, first reported by Politico and Big Government and pushed hard by Drudge, allegedly shows the Dem leadership telling rank and file Dems to stay hush-hush about a scheme for a “doc fix” later this year that, in essence, would make the bill’s deficit-reduction meaningless.
After Dems alleged to TPM that the memo is fake, Politico pulled down the story.
The memo, however, was pushed to some reporters by the office of GOP leader John Boehner. A source forwards an email sent at 12:58 PM by Boehner spokesman Michael Steel to The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward and other reporters, with the original memo attached.
“Folks — Please read the attached draft memo addressed to `Democratic Health and Communications Staff,’ Steel wrote. “It makes it clear that Democrats want to avoid discussing issues related to the CBO score of their latest government takeover legislation because their claims don’t pass the straight face test.”
Asked for comment, Steel would only say: “Will the Democrats do the `doc fix’? If they will, they are low-balling the cost of health care by hundreds of billions of dollars.”
The Republicans continued to insist that the memo was never proven to be faked, but Dave Weigel picks up the story here:
(T)wo hours after the story went up, TPM reported that Democrats were calling the memo a “hoax,” and Politico pulled the story. At a 3:30 press conference called “to highlight the concerns over the Democrats’ budget gimmick to temporarily exclude a $371 billion ‘Doc Fix’ from the health reform bill,” Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) quickly dismissed the memo.
“Look,” said Cantor, “the appropriate question there is, ask the reporter who wrote the article. I know nothing beyond what I read in Politico.” The “real hoax,” he said, was on “the American people.”
Ryan was even quicker on the dismissal. “Who cares who wrote the memo?” he asked.
Of course? Who cares if it was faked? A spokesperson for the House Leadership released the following statement:
Opponents of health reform can’t win on the merits of
their arguments so they must stoop to acts of desperation to deny
Americans an honest and truthful debate. The latest examples of this
came today with the maligning of Democratic Members on the House
Floor, and the circulation of an apparently fraudulent memo that was
falsely attributed to Democratic staffers. These two incidents are
exhibits Y and Z in a long line of evidence showing that opponents of
health reform will do anything and say anything to stand in the way.
Republican leaders have said they will do anything to stop this bill,
but no matter what they do, Democrats will continue working to deliver
affordable health care for America's middle class.
Fakery and desperation are no reasons to not try to fundraise off the fear-mongering, right, David Vitter?
And as a breath of fresh air in the stagnant cesspool of lies and deceptions propagated by the GOP, comes Rep. Anthony Wiener.
Just a helpful hint for you Republicans: I'd make sure that Anthony Weiner isn't in the room before reading a hoax memo as if it were real.
A fake memo about a fake health care overhaul about fake deficit reduction after handing the REAL keys to the treasury (along with trillions) over to the banksters.
Why not?
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David Sirota here
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
This whole country's a fake anymore.
Plastic, manufactured . . not the country I grew up in anymore that's obvious.
your country back?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
discredited author and a reactionary whining teenager...
Thank you Rep Weiner....It is so good to have congress call people out on the floor of the House....about time! We need more like him and Grayson!
These two Congressmen have proved that they went to Washington to do the peoples work for America and their Districts. Good men and I know these two will rise to the top of the party and yes we do need more the them.
Smells reminiscent of the reich's claim that President Obama was gonna somehow turn school kids into goose-stepping Obama Youth with a speech on the importance of education.
When it didn't happened they didn't say, "Woops...our bad..." but crowed how conservative protests forced him to change his mind and speech.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Didn't think so.
For the last 30 years or so the right wingers have been able to make up any "facts" they wanted to knowing that the MSM would not challenge them, but would in fact amplify their BS and report opposition to their lies as a "he said, she said" kind of controversy.
After all these years of getting away with it, they've gotten so sloppy that they no longer care whether we know that they're lying, because they don't think their supporters care whether or not what they say is true.
They really believe that they can make their own reality, so the truth is largely irrelevent to them.
So how does this jive with the reich's claim that the cost of health insurance is going sky high due to medical malpractice suits?
And the Democrats are attempting to take over health care?
And the Democrats are supported by trial lawyers?
Are the Democrats going to sue themselves?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I don't like this plan, but if naysayers had their way we'd never have the Constitution, because of the eight years without a bill of rights, or for that matter even have our American Revolution.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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What does that have to do with the Medical Health Plan, republican attempts to derail it or the Constitution?
I have no interest in playing "More-Liberal-Than-Thou" games with you.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Why believe anything the GOP says. The GOP will lie and bend the truth since they do not have legitimate arguments for their position to support health insurance companies' profits.
the grandparents of the gen x and gen y never pulled them aside and said . . "never trust a Republican". Actually that should be modified to modern standards, such as "Don't become Reaganized"
You don't feel trickled upon?
I use to see merit in the GOP but over the years their dishonesty has made it impossible to back the party at any level even if I agree with some of their points.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Over at Politico, they're still trying to justify their suckerness by pleading that the memo they posted is "truthy," or a lie that ought to be the truth. Go read the replies to Politico Hack Craig Gordon's assertion that the memo jibed with his preconceived notions about scurrilous Democrats, so he just had to run with it. He offers no apologies, and gets roasted for it in the comments.
I wonder why the truthiness of the Dan Rather/Bush memo wasn't a defense then, but the truthiness of this memo is now?
Carlos
Oh! I get it now! Here all this time I thought the republicans were just a bunch of obstructionists, malcontents when in reality they simply believe anything they read.
Sorry repubs, for overestimating your abilities of cognitive thought, it won’t happen again.
The GOP just lies about the situation. It is the GOP's standard operational procedure. (SOP)
If you are not smart enough or quick enough to catch the lies then the lies become a fact. The Democrats in this case caught the GOP lying before they could get the press to repeat it. Imagine if the Democrats had not figured out the GOP was lying about this memo until Sunday. The MSM would have killed the health care bill by reporting the GOP lie as if it were the truth. Interesting.......
The only reason the modern GOP still exists, is because half of the people in this country are dumber than a stump!
The repubs know this, and just keep on feeding the morons a plate of dog turds, while telling them it's Filet Mignon - conservative style.
I give the GOP psychos credit. It's the people who vote for them that I am disgusted with.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnCnMHzpzdc&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
earlier in the day, repeating the lies to 20MIL people, and the left doesn't respond to that because it gives them headaches to listen to it then the left shouldn't be surprised they don't even get a public option.
You guys have to realise that when the GOP makes a move like this, it's not desperation.
Desperation implies that they would be reluctant to take this extreme step except that circumstances forced them into it. As if it were a last ditch move or something.
What you have to realise is that the GOP does not assess their actions in the same way that we do. There is no shame. There is no spectrum where insane acts are more desperate than sane ones.
Once you know this, you will find that their actions are a lot more understandable, and you won't be lulled into false expectations by thinking that the GOP would only take such actions if they were on the ropes.
It aways amuses me when someone is found holding a a forged document and they fall back on one of the classic rhetorical fallacies. "It hasn't been proved to be forged." You can't prove a negative. It is a shame that they no longer teach rhetoric any more. Then maybe we wouldn't have so much of this silly grade school reasoning.
This memo has dirty politics written all over it. The expert on the right for writing fake ops is Rove. Maybe if we could get ahold of the memo we could look for evidence of Fox's letterhead!
TurdBlossom is getting sloppy. He's gonna slip up and hopefully he'll be wearing shackles and marching to the hague soon.
is a long term embarrassment to NJ. A phony, holier-than-thou bible thumping neo-con. Between him and Limbaugh favorite Fatboy Christie it goes to show that redneck is a state of mind, not necessarily just a state of the union.
If you can't see just how corrupt these scumbag repukkkes are, then there is no sense even debating with you.
This old bitch from NC is a piece of work. Lies, bull shit and deception. They are playing out all of their cards in the hope the moron contingent of their supporters will take to arms.
THIS is what is wrong with our government. It's NOT government that is the problem...it's these repukkke lying sons-of-bitches that are the problem with government.
Like the poster above stated - these guys are slick, well marketed jerkoffs... It's the morans that keep voting for them - that's the problem. For fooks sake, turn off the idiot box and try and do some critical thinking for once in your life... geez. Gotta admit, they do know how to sell their product... and the unwashed masses lick up this dogshit like it's manna from heaven. Frustrating...
We pay the majority of these corporate shills entirely too much money, and blog with impotent anger when it's apparent that they're bending us over to F**K us up the ass!!
And, and they never even kiss us first!!!!!!!
"Parliamentary Inquiry".... meh, the way she talks she sounds like she's got food in her mouth or something.
How total fools like Foxx and Bachmann get sent to Congress by actual voters who had an alternative choice is beyond me. I would be so ashamed if one of these nutjobs were my representative!
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