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December 02, 2013

Matt Labash, Embedded With the "Non-Partisan" Obamacare Cheerleaders of Enroll America
— Ace

This is just plain funny, but it's also a good news piece.

Hard Sell
Going door-to-door for Obamacare
by Matt Labash
Hollywood, Fla.
Standing here on the streets of Hollywood with two comely Obamacare cheerleaders by my side, IÂ’m feeling fired up and ready to go. IÂ’m feeling like the change IÂ’ve been waiting for. IÂ’m feeling like whatever Obama clichÃ© you can think of. And all I want to say, like the late Todd Beamer before me, is, Â“LetÂ’s roll.Â” Or more like, Â“LetÂ’s enroll.Â” Because much as Beamer, God rest his soul, took on the terrorists who tried to take down America, we are now in a similar cataclysmic fight: the fight to guarantee that every American has the right to buy overpriced health insurance on a glitchy website, under threat of punitive tax penalties.
IÂ’ve come to Florida to go door-to-door with the foot soldiers of Get Covered America, the boots-on-the-ground division of Enroll America, which bills itself as a Â“nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to maximize the number of uninsured Americans who enroll in health coverage made available by the Affordable Care Act.Â” These Obamacare evangelists are very serious about the Â“nonpartisanÂ” nature of their business. Nearly every Enroll America staffer I speak to emphasizes it, often repeatedly. And while it might strain credulity that an organization is nonpartisan which seeks to make sure people are Obamacared for by setting $100 million fundraising goals for itself, and conducting $5 million ad campaigns, and targeting 10 different states, 9 of which are coincidentally run by Republican governors, I choose to take them at their word.
After all, Enroll America boasts all manner of nonpartisan credentials. Most of its staffers seem to have worked in the nonpartisan Obama presidential campaigns of 2008 or 2012, often both. Its president, Anne Filipic, served as deputy executive director of the nonpartisan Democratic National Committee, and came here straight from the nonpartisan White House Office of Public Engagement. The nonpartisan Obamacare czar, Kathleen Sebelius (whom Filipic also worked for), has admitted putting the arm on companies to make donations to Enroll America, sparking several nonpartisan congressional investigations.
And after decidedly partisan conservative gadfly James OÂ’Keefe and his undercover Project Veritas crew caught Texas Enroll America communications director Chris Tarango on tape conspiring to help obtain a private list of potential Obamacare enrollee data for political purposes, a national Enroll America spokesman told me again: Â“Enroll America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization,Â” it doesnÂ’t technically enroll people Â“so we donÂ’t have any sensitive personal data,Â” and though the video Â“does not show any violation of our nonprofit status,Â” even the suggestion of any violation is Â“inappropriateÂ” and the Â“employee seen in the video has resigned from his role with Enroll America.Â”
With my nonpartisan concerns allayed, weÂ’re ready to roll! At the Hollywood public library, I meet up with Get Covered AmericaÂ’s Katie Vicsik and Rhianna Hurt, 2 of 28 Florida staffers (they also have nearly 1,800 volunteers on the ground in the state). They are twentysomething, earnest, clipboard-carrying, and as adorable as speckled pups. TheyÂ’re the Platonic ideal of Obama campaign staffers (which they both were) from back in the salad days, when the winds of hopeÂ’nÂ’change blew across the prairie, and there was still dew on the world.
....
Katie and Rhianna are light touches. They donÂ’t hard-sell. They donÂ’t discuss premiums (Enroll AmericaÂ’s internal polling showed that discussing prices, even when emphasizing subsidies, was death to prospective enrollees). They donÂ’t use flashpoint words like Â“ObamacareÂ” if it can be helpedÂ—only Â“the Affordable Care Act.Â” All they want to do, Katie tells me, is to provide information, to apprise people of their options. They are not interested in political debates. Â“We always stress that weÂ’re nonpartisan,Â” says Katie.
So IÂ’ve heard.

That's the funnier part, but the rest of it is important reporting: Even going door-to-door with microtargeted call sheets, armed with names of people Obama has decided are likely supporters of Obama, and/or need health insurance themselves, Katie and Rhianna encounter a lot of skepticism and outright anger about Obamacare.

And speaking of that, I have to link this great video I saw in Hot Air's Quotes of the Day last night. The person who posted the video explains:

I took this video because "I" knew what my liberal relative was going to try to do and I knew how my unsuspecting consevative family was going to react. I just had to capture the moment on video!

Update: Commenters point out that this video seems like a set-up by an Obamacare opponent, deliberately trying to elicit a laugh from the family. That's fair enough, and would still make the video a useful commentary about public perceptions about Obamacare, if not for the fact that the claim about how the video came to be -- quoted above -- is therefore false.

Posted by: Ace at 12:07 PM | Comments (146)
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1 I came. I saw. I left.

Posted by: Bad Stuff and Banjos at December 02, 2013 12:08 PM (rCS6C)

2 All is well.

Posted by: Chip Diller Schultz at December 02, 2013 12:08 PM (Pr6hk)

3 I'd laugh at this Administration's incompetence, if I could ignore the millions of Americans whose holidays will be ruined this year by this friggin' disaster.

Posted by: Y-not at December 02, 2013 12:10 PM (zDsvJ)

4 Good to know Ace doesn't read the blog, either.

Posted by: garrett at December 02, 2013 12:10 PM (wkRxD)

5 Hard Sell
Going door-to-door for Obamacare

by Matt Labash

The part when the cop shows up is f-ing hilarious, because of the reason why.

Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 12:11 PM (GQ8sn)

6 Soon Gaylord will going, "Alinsky? Never heard of him."

Fix your opponent and ridicule him. 404Care multiple failures and excuses are doing a nice job of eroding things.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 02, 2013 12:12 PM (B9up3)

7 OK, I watched the video but I don't get it. What did the liberal relative do? Is that the one who said "ok, stop the camera"?

Posted by: Y-not at December 02, 2013 12:13 PM (zDsvJ)

8 Arf! Arf! [tail wagging]

Posted by: a dog enrolled in obamacare at December 02, 2013 12:13 PM (4NEdy)

9 Who is knocking up those women in the video?

Posted by: garrett at December 02, 2013 12:13 PM (wkRxD)

10 That video....funny. If someone had done that in my house I would have asked her/him to leave right there and then.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 02, 2013 12:14 PM (0LHZx)

11 Oh, oh. I feel some audits coming on. About a dozen of them.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 02, 2013 12:14 PM (4NEdy)

12 They would probably get better results pushing Watchtowers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 02, 2013 12:14 PM (8ZskC)

13 LOLcare

Posted by: Sean at December 02, 2013 12:14 PM (bAXJL)

14 Great. Now I get to argue with socialist zealots in addition to Jehovah's witnesses at my door.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 02, 2013 12:16 PM (O3C36)

15 Non-partisan ........ Heh . Soon to be non-insured .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 02, 2013 12:17 PM (XWw96)

16 Funnee embedded reportage and funnee video. Great how the whole family cracked up and wouldn't stop laughing. Fond memories of a couple of times when I was pitched by acquaintances who wanted to sign me (or once, a group of us) up as an Amway rep.

Posted by: RM at December 02, 2013 12:17 PM (fRppw)

17 Oh yeah, just like Todd Beamer.

Except, you know, he (and others) died heroically attempting to stop evil from crashing something which would harm a great many people.

Meanwhile, Labash (Obama and others) are actually attempting to evilly crash something which would harm a great many people.

What a POS.

Posted by: WTF? at December 02, 2013 12:18 PM (bvtgt)

18 My idiot brother on law - big Obama guy - found out recently that he has to buy insurance. He just turned 27 so the "stay on you mommie's plan" strategy doesn't work anymore. Over Thanksgiving, he mentioned that the price for insurance is pretty high. I said, yeah no shit dumbass, that's what happens when govt runs the system. We didn't really get into it, but he didn't really have anything to say. The next day my wife was talking to her mom - also an Obamabot - who said it's awful how much insurance will cost for her precious now that he's too old to be on hers. I said, yeah no shit, that's what happens when govt runs things. And her reply was, what do you mean govt runs things? It's because of the evil greed insurance companies that this is happening. I was about to get into it but my wife gave me that "don't even fucking think about it" look, and I just walked away.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 02, 2013 12:18 PM (0LHZx)

19 Why'd they stop the camera before the good part -- the part where the tar and feathers were applied?

I could use a few pointers on proper technique.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 02, 2013 12:18 PM (wNF3N)

20 Cheerleaders and Death Panels. This drama has it all.

Posted by: USA at December 02, 2013 12:18 PM (VIaw0)

21 if I could ignore the millions of Americans whose ~~holidays~~ lives will be ruined this year

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at December 02, 2013 12:18 PM (/kI1Q)

22 So Sec. Sebilus, do you think an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards will fix 404Care?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 02, 2013 12:19 PM (B9up3)

23 comely Leftists? I'm gonna need some pics to prove it.

Posted by: President Barack Obama at December 02, 2013 12:20 PM (7ObY1)

24 Katie and Rhianna. Children of the Corn comes to mind.

Posted by: redenzo at December 02, 2013 12:20 PM (Spvbn)

25 "Enroll America, which bills itself as a 'nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization'"

Half of the bastions of the institutional left are these goddamned nonprofits.

It's the good old ACORN model.

If the Republicans ever someday somehow blunder their way back into power, they would be well advised to overhaul the tax code and do away with the entire notion of nonprofits with special tax status. It has worked out hugely to the left's advantage.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 02, 2013 12:21 PM (gqT4g)

26 Why were there no men at that Thanksgiving gathering?

Posted by: keena at December 02, 2013 12:21 PM (RiTnx)

27 It was the best of times. It was the blurst of times.

Posted by: obamacare code monkey at December 02, 2013 12:21 PM (4NEdy)

28 OT: Attention Morons. Amazon has the last Wheel of Time book (A Memory of Light) for the Kindle on sale for today only for $4.29.

Posted by: Vic at December 02, 2013 12:21 PM (YowqD)

29 Children of the Creamed Korn

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 02, 2013 12:21 PM (B9up3)

comely Leftists?

I'm gonna need some pics to prove it.

Page 3. No, they aren't, so even if they offered oral pleasure it would be no sale.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 02, 2013 12:21 PM (O3C36)

31 Cheerleaders and Death Panels opened for Love and Rockets but it was a British tour, I didn't get to see it.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at December 02, 2013 12:21 PM (7ObY1)

32 comely Leftists?

I'm gonna need some pics to prove it.

Posted by: President Barack Obama at December 02, 2013 04:20 PM (7ObY1)

There are pics on the third page.

Meh...

Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 12:21 PM (GQ8sn)

33 "Let's enroll" was just too funny/witty/smart to pass up. Fuckin douche.

Posted by: nip at December 02, 2013 12:22 PM (jI23+)

34 Children of the Candy Corn.

Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 12:22 PM (GQ8sn)

35 All those laughing people in the video? Yeah, THEY broke Obamacare.

It's their fault.

Especially the children.

Posted by: Jaws at December 02, 2013 12:22 PM (4I3Uo)

36 Hyper-nonpartisans

Posted by: John the Libertarian at December 02, 2013 12:22 PM (6RwsK)

I was impressed by the number of people in that particular neighborhood - one that had been "targeted" by OFA, Inc. as being one they believed to be ripe for the picking - who already knew enough about the shitty product to tell these sweet young things to get off of their lawns.

I'm wondering at what point the sweet young things give up trying to help the oppressed and decide to spend their weekends doing something more productive.

Like watching paint dry.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (@Teresa_Koch) at December 02, 2013 12:22 PM (PZ6/M)

38 HOW could you rethuglikans doubt their non-partisan affiliation

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at December 02, 2013 12:22 PM (Pr6hk)

39 If the Republicans ever someday somehow blunder their way back into power, they would be well advised to overhaul the tax code and do away with the entire notion of nonprofits with special tax status. It has worked out hugely to the left's advantage. Posted by: torquewrench at December 02, 2013 04:21 PM (gqT4g) __________ A better option would be to fight fire with fire. If there's one thing the left does well it's organize. The right.....what's organize mean? And yes, I realize it's easy to organize when your core voter is on welfare or in a union. But still, it shouldn't be that hard to counter this sort of thing with the conservative version.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 02, 2013 12:23 PM (0LHZx)

40 I read that some residents were calling the cops on the Obamcare pushers. What a great idea.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:23 PM (1Y+hH)

41 Page 3. No, they aren't, so even if they offered oral pleasure it would be no sale. I missed the pic, got grossed out by the lady with her finger in her mouth. The cheerleaders are OK. The one without the glasses looks kinda toned. I'd hit them both. But I'm a pig.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at December 02, 2013 12:23 PM (7ObY1)

42 This is how thug politics works, like a shake down. Hi were Moose and Rocko, Katie brothers, Katie says you aren't gonna pay.

Posted by: redenzo at December 02, 2013 12:24 PM (Spvbn)

43 Those thanksgiving people are Alinskyites. Quel ridicule!

Posted by: John the Libertarian at December 02, 2013 12:24 PM (6RwsK)

44 Children of the ACORN.

Posted by: toby928© insists on talking about robots at December 02, 2013 12:24 PM (QupBk)

45 A whole room full of racists.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at December 02, 2013 12:24 PM (DL2i+)

46 "If the Republicans ever someday somehow blunder their way back into power, they would be well advised to overhaul the tax code and do away with the entire notion of nonprofits with special tax status. It has worked out hugely to the left's advantage."

If the Republicans ever someday somehow blunder their way back into power, they won't have time to fix the tax code as they'll be working 24/7 to fuck it all up and get voted back into the wilderness in the next possible election cycle. Priorities are priorities.

Posted by: Jaws at December 02, 2013 12:25 PM (4I3Uo)

47 44 Children of the ACORN. Slow clap!

Nicely done.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at December 02, 2013 12:25 PM (7ObY1)

48 I read that some residents were calling the cops on the Obamcare pushers.

What a great idea.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 04:23 PM (1Y+hH)

They did. The cop came because the girls were "causing a disturbance" and needed permits first if they wanted to continue canvassing the neighbourhood.

Posted by: EC at December 02, 2013 12:25 PM (GQ8sn)

49 "...stop the camera"

That about sums it up

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at December 02, 2013 12:26 PM (0OknM)

50 "They did. The cop came because the girls were "causing a disturbance" and needed pasties first if they wanted to continue canvassing the neighbourhood." I think that's the correct quote. Maybe.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:27 PM (1Y+hH)

51 I'm calling fake on that bottom video. At least I hope so. Seems way too contrived, even for something that was meant to be contrived.

Posted by: WTP at December 02, 2013 12:27 PM (5npD/)

52 "A better option would be to fight fire with fire. If there's one thing the left does well it's organize."

Yeah, except when the left organize, and set up a shit-ton of 501(c)3 front organizations for leftist causes, they don't occasion much if any official scrutiny, even when the right is in power. ACORN being the rare example of the left being caught and punished.

Whereas when the right organize, and set up their own 501(c)3 organizations while the left are in power, even wholly legitimate such organizations, then the IRS promptly starts whacking away like a piledriver on speed, beleaguering them with denials and audits.

It's a rigged game. Don't play it. Tear up the rulebook and repeal the whole shebang.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 02, 2013 12:27 PM (gqT4g)

53 The problem with you naysayers is you just don't magical think enough. Just keep singing that Cher song Do You Believe in Life after Healthcare.gov.

Posted by: John the Libertarian at December 02, 2013 12:29 PM (6RwsK)

54 The part when the cop shows up is f-ing hilarious, because of the reason why.

I giggled.

This, he says, is the Obama administrationÂ’s bunker-mentality.

Think they remembered to pack their cyanide capsules?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at December 02, 2013 12:29 PM (/kI1Q)

55 If the ObamaZombie taking the video had gone the extra mile and offered to check the tire pressures of her families cars, that probably would have made the difference.

Posted by: Arbalest at December 02, 2013 12:30 PM (FlRtG)

Leftard: Our walking clusterfuck of a President wanted dumbass me to talk some shit about Zerocare. Please take this horse shit seriously.

Family: Yeah, right.

Posted by: maddogg at December 02, 2013 12:30 PM (xWW96)

57 I saw 'Cheerleaders' and was expecting elbows.

Posted by: t-bird at December 02, 2013 12:31 PM (FcR7P)

58 For some laffs - rumours abound that Ms. Lohan plans to sue Rockstar Games over GTA 5. Claiming the ditzy starlet mission is based upon her.

http://tinyurl.com/m4nu9hb

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 02, 2013 12:31 PM (B9up3)

59 If this $hit wasn't all so f***ed up, I'd have something to say...FORWARD!!!!!

Posted by: Alex Da Tookville at December 02, 2013 12:31 PM (SCB1g)

60 "I'm calling fake on that bottom video." Asking if they had their tax returns with them was kind of a tell.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:32 PM (1Y+hH)

61 Meh so Ace missed it during the weekend. It's such a good article it's worth posting twice...or even thrice.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 02, 2013 12:32 PM (oFCZn)

62 Somebody mentioned the obamacare bullshit at a thanksgiving party I was out. It went as expected, although seeing a 70+ year old women flip the bird and say fuck obama was an added bonus.

I'll also add it was a pretty tough crowd, and I formed that opinion somewhere between granny middle finger and me getting seriously hit on AND insulted in the same sentence by a still pretty hot 50 year old chick going through a divorce.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Div at December 02, 2013 12:33 PM (FMbng)

63 I actually am not sure if I find that story funny. These are peoples' lives for God's sake, and the Democrats decided to ruin them so they could...do something, I guess.

Democrats are monsters.

Posted by: Rogue Low-Level Employee at December 02, 2013 12:33 PM (XpAxm)

64 um....party I was at, not out.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Div at December 02, 2013 12:33 PM (FMbng)

65 For some laffs - rumours abound that Ms. Lohan plans to sue Rockstar Games over GTA 5. Claiming the ditzy starlet mission is based upon her. Lohan is a day late to that audition....

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 12:35 PM (xZxMD)

66 "...me getting seriously hit on AND insulted in the same sentence by a still pretty hot 50 year old chick going through a divorce."

They found our playbook, fellas. We're screwed - and not in the good way either.

Posted by: Jaws at December 02, 2013 12:35 PM (4I3Uo)

67 This is how the liberal college system is brain washing the yoots of America

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 02, 2013 12:35 PM (t3UFN)

Thanksgiving Coming Out Party?

Progressive.

Posted by: garrett at December 02, 2013 12:36 PM (wkRxD)

69 Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Div at December 02, 2013 04:33 PM (FMbng)

Sex trumps politics.

Unless of course you didn't bring a ball gag, in which case it's Mary Palm and her five friends.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 02, 2013 12:36 PM (oJ5Fd)

70 Sure girls I do have a preexisting condition. In fact three, I'm male, I'm young, and I'm not dirt poor, now what? You can take care of this schadenboner or be on your way.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at December 02, 2013 12:36 PM (WdbF7)

71 Obama wants to say he cured AIDS so they're gonna throw another $100M at it.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/12/ {REMOVE} obama-launches-effort-aimed-at-hiv-cure-178632.html

Yea, now that the freaking hard part is done figuring out how the damned thing attacked and we've developed the biochem and genetic knowledge to actually design mechanisms that defeat it, he strides in waving around $100M when people are starting to work on productization of the mechanisms that are known to zap it in the lab.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at December 02, 2013 12:36 PM (0OknM)

72 "...me getting seriously hit on AND insulted in the same sentence by a still pretty hot 50 year old chick" I didn't know those two things could happen at the same time.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:36 PM (1Y+hH)

73 Think they remembered to pack their cyanide capsules?
I hope they don't kill Bo first. I don't care about the second one though. Should've named her "Squirrel".

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 02, 2013 12:36 PM (4NEdy)

74 3--- I'd laugh at this Administration's incompetence, if I could ignore the millions of Americans whose holidays will be ruined this year by this friggin' disaster. Posted by: Y-not at December 02, 2013 04:10 PM (zDsvJ) ----------------------------- I don't care about anyone who voted for Obama. I'm actually pleased to see them suffer. See how socialism makes us all feel more cuddly, loving, and kind toward others?!?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 02, 2013 12:36 PM (dfYL9)

75 Damn you guys are right, that video is a set-up, and then misrepresented by the poster.

Posted by: ace at December 02, 2013 12:37 PM (/FnUH)

76 Sex trumps politics. Unless of course you didn't bring a ball gag, in which case it's Mary Palm and her five friends. Sock full of quarters works in a pinch. Just sayin'

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 12:37 PM (xZxMD)

77 To a guy I mean.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:37 PM (1Y+hH)

78 Posted by: garrett at December 02, 2013 04:36 PM (wkRxD)

Thanks for the PB cookie recipe. Made them last night, and they were quite good. And I agree that they need more PB.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 02, 2013 12:37 PM (oJ5Fd)

79 So where is Steiner?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 02, 2013 12:38 PM (B9up3)

80
There are two certainties in life.

Death and Taxes.

.... all rolled into one tidy package called Obamacare.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 02, 2013 12:40 PM (nELVU)

81 How about putting that little dick of yours into me?

Posted by: still pretty hot 50 year old chick going through a divorce talking to obama at December 02, 2013 12:40 PM (4NEdy)

82 Katie and Rhianna are light touches. They donÂ’t hard-sell. They donÂ’t discuss premiums (Enroll AmericaÂ’s internal polling showed that discussing prices, even when emphasizing subsidies, was death to prospective enrollees). Not discussing the price IS hard sell. On what planet do they live where people enter a contract without knowing the price? And yes the fucking price is important -- that's why they can't get any suckers to sign up.

Posted by: AoShq Blog Innovator at December 02, 2013 12:40 PM (kkbgQ)

83 Labash is a great reporter. Maybe the best writer they have at WS.

Posted by: gp at December 02, 2013 12:40 PM (+Jpqc)

84 Found this in the twitterverse... CREEPY!

Jeannine Gage ‏@jeanninemg 16 Nov
@getcoveredus New Hope Baptist Church community yard sale/giveaway. Souls to Enroll! #getcovered

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 02, 2013 12:40 PM (9eDbm)

85 Cheerleaders and Death Panels.

This drama has it all.

Posted by: USA at December 02, 2013 04:18 PM (VIaw0)

It's like if the guillotine had pom-pom girls.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Death Capades - ObamaCare on Ice! Sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 02, 2013 12:40 PM (hLRSq)

Damn you guys are right, that video is a set-up, and then misrepresented by the poster.

All I heard was a bunch of clucking, then I hot refresh to shut it off.

Posted by: garrett at December 02, 2013 12:40 PM (wkRxD)

87 Posted by: ace at December 02, 2013 04:37 PM (/FnUH) Yeah, we are a little suspicious of everything these days for some reason.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:40 PM (1Y+hH)

88 There were all just lady parts in that video. Men must have been in other room watching football with their pants unbuttoned and the hand down the front.

Posted by: polynikes at December 02, 2013 12:40 PM (m2CN7)

89 >>>Meh so Ace missed it during the weekend. hah thanks. JohnE mentioned it an an email, so I didn't "miss" it. I did miss the fact that he posted it, though. I don't think I went on the computer at all on Saturday. I just unplugged the whole day.

Posted by: ace at December 02, 2013 12:40 PM (/FnUH)

90 I saw this noted by someone else but Brian died on Family Guy and was replaced by a goombah. WTF?

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 02, 2013 12:42 PM (xlX1p)

91 Damn you guys are right, that video is a set-up, and then misrepresented by the poster.

Word is that Part 2 will involve the shocking discovery of a noose and a confederate flag in the den.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 02, 2013 12:42 PM (8ZskC)

92 My new name is Blade. Blade Sharpe. LOL.

Posted by: imp at December 02, 2013 12:42 PM (L9AnB)

So where is Steiner?

--------------------

Der Angriff Steiners ist nicht erfolgt.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at December 02, 2013 12:42 PM (A0sHn)

94 I don't think I went on the computer at all on Saturday. I just unplugged the whole day.

Posted by: ace at December 02, 2013 04:40 PM (/FnUH)

Lucky you

Posted by: Fred Q. at December 02, 2013 12:42 PM (q+zA9)

95 Oh, and the guy who brought in Todd Beamer and trashed "Let's Roll." I could end up in jail if I got around that guy. He'd be an expert on the medical system after I got through with him.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:42 PM (1Y+hH)

It's like if the guillotine had pom-pom girls.

That's where Robespierre screwed up.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 02, 2013 12:42 PM (O3C36)

97 "Tear up the rulebook and repeal the whole shebang."

Too many repub committee chairs help write that rule book. Can't give it up now. Besides all new purchases of blank rule books have been sequestered out.

Posted by: GMB at December 02, 2013 12:42 PM (nkPV9)

98
Ouch, my balls!

Posted by: Vernon Davis at December 02, 2013 12:42 PM (caCiW)

99 I don't think I went on the computer at all on Saturday. I just unplugged the whole day. Posted by: ace at December 02, 2013 04:40 PM (/FnUH) Good for you! Those hobos aren't going to hunt themselves you know.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 02, 2013 12:42 PM (oFCZn)

100 when I watched that video, it did seem like someone trying to elicit a laugh from a friendly crowd. But then I read the description and it claimed this was an earnest attempt at Obamaconversion by a progressive troll. It just never occurred to me that people might lie on the Internet.

Posted by: ace at December 02, 2013 12:43 PM (/FnUH)

101 I don't think I went on the computer at all on Saturday. I just unplugged the whole day.
Hey, me too, dude!

Posted by: 404care at December 02, 2013 12:43 PM (4NEdy)

102 61 >> Asking if they had their tax returns with them was kind of a tell.

Wasn't that some actual advice given by OFA or HHS? Ask family members to bring your tax info to Tgiving dinner so they could be walked thru the process.

I'm pretty sure that was actually suggested.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 02, 2013 12:44 PM (wNF3N)

103 72 Obama wants to say he cured AIDS so they're gonna throw another $100M at it. http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/12/ {REMOVE} obama-launches-effort-aimed-at-hiv-cure-178632.html Yea, now that the freaking hard part is done figuring out how the damned thing attacked and we've developed the biochem and genetic knowledge to actually design mechanisms that defeat it, he strides in waving around $100M when people are starting to work on productization of the mechanisms that are known to zap it in the lab. --- We sure he doesn't want that out there for selfish reasons outside of his legacy? Here's a hint... Brother's been looking pretty slim and sickly the last few years.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at December 02, 2013 12:44 PM (/Crba)

104 >>>>Overseeing us is my Navigator, who works for a health care concern IÂ’ll call the Ebola Foundation. He asks not to use his name, and when I tell him to pick a fake one, he settles on Â“Blade,Â” adding, Â“Blade Sharpe. IÂ’ve always wanted to be called that.Â” fuck that shit Labash. name names. these people aren't innocent.

Posted by: X at December 02, 2013 12:44 PM (KHo8t)

105

Obamacare passed with nor republican votes, none.

repeat as needed

Posted by: Fred Q. at December 02, 2013 12:44 PM (q+zA9)

106 "So where is Steiner?"

Steiner ist im den Bunker tot. Eine Kugel in Kopf Ich denke

Posted by: A Schicklegruber at December 02, 2013 12:44 PM (nkPV9)

107 It just never occurred to me that people might lie on the Internet.

How YOU doin'?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at December 02, 2013 12:44 PM (/kI1Q)

108 ...me getting seriously hit on AND insulted in the same sentence by a still pretty hot 50 year old chick"

I didn't know those two things could happen at the same time.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 04:36 PM (1Y+hH)

Man, I didn't either. It was quite bizarre.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Div at December 02, 2013 12:44 PM (FMbng)

109 I'm going to rate the video as true, knowing what Obama supporters are like.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 02, 2013 12:45 PM (xlX1p)

110 It just never occurred to me that people might lie on the Internet. Posted by: ace at December 02, 2013 04:43 PM (/FnUH) A one day shutoff and you lost all your natural defenses. Let this be a lesson to you.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:45 PM (1Y+hH)

111 This Labash character is guilty of journalism with intent to inform. I sense an audit in his future.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at December 02, 2013 12:45 PM (6ahup)

112

Posted by: ace at December 02, 2013 04:43 PM (/FnUH)

I thought it could be real until she did her little soliloquy of " I tried President Obama, I tried"

Posted by: polynikes at December 02, 2013 12:45 PM (m2CN7)

113 Â“We always stress that weÂ’re nonpartisan,Â” says Katie.

Cultists gonna cult.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 02, 2013 12:46 PM (uCNam)

114 he strides in waving around $100M A hundred million is what you find turning over the couch cushions in this administration.

Posted by: toby928© insists on talking about robots at December 02, 2013 12:46 PM (QupBk)

115 A whole room full of racists.

Posted by: DaveA at December 02, 2013 04:24 PM (DL2i+)

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We certainly did notice that they were all causasian and gathering from the small children present, probably hetero-normative. This is not the Amerika our Dear Leader wants.

Posted by: Soona at December 02, 2013 12:48 PM (FtgP2)

116 Obama wants to say he cured AIDS so they're gonna throw another $100M at it. Pfff. He threw 6x that at a website that don't even work.

Posted by: --- at December 02, 2013 12:48 PM (MMC8r)

117 ...me getting seriously hit on AND insulted in the same sentence by a still pretty hot 50 year old chick" I didn't know those two things could happen at the same time. Never made it to closing time, huh? Okay, I'll guess you'll do.

Posted by: toby928© insists on talking about robots at December 02, 2013 12:48 PM (QupBk)

118 So is the healthcare web site a shovel ready jobs program?

Posted by: Fred Q. at December 02, 2013 12:48 PM (q+zA9)

119 Man, I didn't either. It was quite bizarre. Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads That's a frickin' walking nervous breakdown right there. The various calculations running through your brain must have been staggering.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:48 PM (1Y+hH)

120 Robespierre only had what France could provide - Madame DeFarge who was more known for her knitting needles and not her elbows.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 02, 2013 12:49 PM (B9up3)

121 Wait, ONLY $100 million? Why does Obama hate gay people?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 02, 2013 12:49 PM (oFCZn)

122 Obamacare passed with nor republican votes, none.

repeat as needed

Posted by: Fred Q. at December 02, 2013 04:44 PM (q+zA9)

The opposition to ObamaCare was bipartisan.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Death Capades - ObamaCare on Ice! Sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 02, 2013 12:49 PM (hLRSq)

123 Okay, I'll guess you'll do.

Posted by: toby928Â© insists on talking about robots at December 02, 2013 04:48 PM (QupBk)

Well your not the last man on earth but what the hell.

Posted by: polynikes at December 02, 2013 12:49 PM (m2CN7)

124 There's another tell in that video. It's the woman speaking who's filming it. You can see in some shots that she's holding a sheaf of papers. Likely something to do with Obamacare. The story about filming the "Liberal Aunt" speaking makes no sense -- if that's the case, why is the Liberal Aunt never photographed?

Posted by: ace at December 02, 2013 12:50 PM (/FnUH)

125 Why does Obama hate gay people?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 02, 2013 04:49 PM (oFCZn)

---

.... denial and self loathing??

Posted by: fixerupper at December 02, 2013 12:50 PM (nELVU)

126 When will Obama figure out this is all the fault of Al Gore for inventing that damn internet thingie in the first place? Lines around buildings would be dreamy compared to this...

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:50 PM (1Y+hH)

127 The Golden Rule: Obamacare unto others and maybe you'll earn an exemption.

Posted by: t-bird at December 02, 2013 12:50 PM (FcR7P)

128 Thank God that tape wasn't real. If it was and someone tried that shit on me, as soon as I heard "president" I would be up and charging the videoer.

Posted by: AoShq Blog Innovator at December 02, 2013 12:52 PM (kkbgQ)

129 Heh. Reminds of a buddy trying to get his fiance home from the Philipines. They went to a govt building and stood in line for 9 hours. Upon arriving at a desk, they handed the occupant their paperwork. He looked at it, handed it back, and said, "You are in the wrong line." True story.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:52 PM (1Y+hH)

130 129 The Golden Rule: Obamacare unto others and maybe you'll earn an exemption. Posted by: t-bird at December 02, 2013 04:50 PM (FcR7P) And what do you want for Christmas? An Obamacare waiver.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 02, 2013 12:53 PM (oFCZn)

131

I don't know, Ace - it looks to me like all of the ladies honestly thought they were posing for a group photo (from what the gal with the camera was saying, the menfolk were all in the other room watching a football game - except for the one uncle who was asleep in the room, just off camera) .

The way some of the younger ones were passing little kids to older relatives so that they could sit on their laps makes me think they didn't have a clue what was coming.

And the slow roll-out of laughing is what you would expect - as each additional family member realizes what is being said (or begins paying attention, because in most cases when crazy cousin whats-her-name starts spouting off again, everyone tunes out), more and more of them start guffawing.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (@Teresa_Koch) at December 02, 2013 12:53 PM (PZ6/M)

132 That's where Robespierre screwed up.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 02, 2013 04:42 PM (O3C36)

"Gimme an M, gimme an O Gimme an R-T-E;

That spells morte which you're gonna be!

Rooooollllllll Heads!"

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Death Capades - ObamaCare on Ice! Sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 02, 2013 12:53 PM (hLRSq)

133 Never made it to closing time, huh? Okay, I'll guess you'll do. Oh, I always do. I'm in the band. That meant I got my pick, before I got married. Now I just tease them unmercifully.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:53 PM (1Y+hH)

134 probably hetero-normative Posted by: Soona at December 02, 2013 04:48 PM (FtgP2) Oh crap! I DO have a preexisting condition then.

Posted by: John the Libertarian at December 02, 2013 12:54 PM (6RwsK)

135 It just never occurred to me that people might lie on the Internet.

Posted by: ace at December 02, 2013 04:43 PM (/FnUH)

Sadly, today email is the only part of the internet that can still be trusted.

Posted by: An Exiled African Oil Executive With Lots of Cash To Move and Nowhere To Move It at December 02, 2013 12:55 PM (8ZskC)

136 Obama never lies to you on the Internet. He lies to you on television and then the clips end up on the Internet so it doesn't count.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 02, 2013 12:57 PM (oFCZn)

137
Yeah..... about that government run computers going sentient thingy.....

Posted by: John Connor at December 02, 2013 12:57 PM (nELVU)

138 Regular AoS commenter zombie has a PJ Media piece up entitled Mission Accomplished.gov

http://tinyurl.com/me6q8hn

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 02, 2013 12:57 PM (wNF3N)

139 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (@Teresa_Koch) at December 02, 2013 04:53 PM (PZ6/M) They didn't know, but the person doing the talking was presented as being serious. She wasn't.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 12:58 PM (1Y+hH)

140 I will say that it does not matter if the video is true or not. What matters is that it gets promulgated widely and that it is useful propaganda. Concerning ourselves with whether or not a message happens to be true or not is why we are falling victim to Democrat Propaganda. They. Don't. Care. They repeat it anyway.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 02, 2013 12:59 PM (bb5+k)

141 They didn't know, but the person doing the talking was presented as being serious.

She wasn't.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 02, 2013 04:58 PM (1Y+hH)

--------------------------------------------------

We noticed that.

Posted by: IRS at December 02, 2013 01:00 PM (FtgP2)

142 The video of the ObamaZombie trying to sign up her family ... might be ... a forgery?? Stolen from some other commenter: To paraphrase Evan Thomas - editor of failed magazine NewsWeak: "The narrative is right, even if the facts are wrong."

Posted by: Arbalest at December 02, 2013 01:03 PM (FlRtG)

143 Nood up!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2013 01:10 PM (xZxMD)

144 We gotta insure these guys.

Posted by: Loggers International at December 02, 2013 01:55 PM (cL+9V)

145 "112 This Labash character is guilty of journalism with intent to inform. I sense an audit in his future."

He writes for the Weekly Standard, so I sense audits in his past and present, too.

Posted by: Joshua at December 02, 2013 03:36 PM (oCZ4e)

146 I don't get the update. Video seems to be exactly what the video-poster describes. He knew what his Obamcare loving relative was going to attempt and was getting it on his camera, which she was all aboard with, thinking she was going to educate the rest of the family. When she gets humiliated she asks him to stop the camera. Not a hint anywhere that she is not a perfectly sincere Obamacare supporter.

Posted by: Alec Rawls at December 02, 2013 10:59 PM (kTTUz)

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