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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums6 Most Brazen Right-Wing Lies About Obamacare
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1) Fox News Warns That If You Sign Up For ObamaCare Hackers Will Steal Your Life Savings
On an episode of The Real Story on Fox News, host Gretchen Carlson introduced an ominous new strain of fear-mongering to demonize Obamacare. She interviewed John McAfee, the anti-virus software developer who is presently a fugitive from a murder investigation in Belize. He made a wild accusation that visitors to Healthcare.gov are going to be victimized by hackers who will steal their identities and/or drain their bank accounts.
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2) WorldNetDaily Reports Obama Crashing Health-Care Site On Purpose
This article asserts that the President is so afraid that insurance shoppers will learn that Obamacare is really more expensive than the old system that he deliberately caused the website to crash to keep people from seeing the rates. No one is defending the botched launch of the insurance exchanges. However, the notion that the technical glitches were intentionally caused by Obama is delusional.
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3) Rand Paul: Take Obamacare Or Go To Jail
Tea Party darling Rand Paul has made innumerable false statements about virtually every policy that has emanated from the White House. But none are more surreal than his comment, They say take [Obamacare] or we will put people in jail. People say we arent going to put anybody in jail. The heck they wont. You will get fined first. If you dont pay your fines, you will go to jail.
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4) Right-Wing Think Tank Mortified That Obamacare Website Links To Voter Registration Form
This is a particularly curious horror story as it seeks to raise an alarm over something that ought to be regarded as a civic duty. Nevertheless, the conservative MacIver Institute (a Koch brothers-funded operation) published an article that implied there was some sort of heinous objective on the part of the Obama administration for having included a link to a voter registration form on the Obamacare website. This startling revelation is met with foreboding by MacIver and a flurry of right-wing media outlets that disseminated MacIvers story, including National Review, Glenn Becks TheBlaze, Breitbart News, the Daily Caller, and Fox News. All of their reports agreed that this was a clandestine attempt to register only Democratic voters despite the absence of any partisan framing. MacIver even asks specifically [W]hat does registering to vote have to do with signing up for Obamacare?
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6 Most Brazen Right-Wing Lies About Obamacare (Original Post)
xchrom
Oct 2013
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(28,762 posts)1. How do you know when a republican is lying?
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. WHEN HIS LIPS ARE MOVING!