The GOP's Fake Doctor Council

[jams]

Can the Republican Party draft a doctor, entirely against his will and political inclination, into the Kill Obamacare movement? Well, it can try. Here is what happened to a high-school acquaintance of mine, a physician and medical school professor, who prefers that I not use his name. I'll call him Fred.
Fred received by fax a draft press release from Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., who is an orthopedist, head of the Republican Study Committee, and chairman of something called the Physicians' Council for Responsible Reform. According to its Web site, this group seeks "to defeat Members of Congress who support 'ObamaCare' in the upcoming 2010 elections." The PCRR is a front for the National Republican Congressional Committee. The draft press release listed Fred's name along with 32 others as members of the council, "comprised of physicians who are respected by their peers." These worthies, it said, "will be receiving special briefings and providing input to Republican members of Congress," including House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, "during their deliberations of the Obama administration's efforts to reform health care." On the draft press release, Fred's name was circled and connected by a line to the margin note, "Your name here."
A handwritten note on the cover sheet explained:

Because of your invaluable experience, we are asking you to represent California as a consultant on the Physicians' Council.
We're running a press release to honor the achievements of you and other concerned physicians like you. Please call me with your approval at 1-877-416-7188.

Fred phoned the number and was connected to an employee at an InfoCision call center in Austintown, Ohio. The employee pretended to work for the Physicians' Council. This person played Fred a prerecorded message from Rep. Price:

There's a very real threat of Washington interfering even more with doctors' efforts to provide the best possible care for their patients. And I'm afraid that declining reimbursements, frivolous lawsuits, and total governmental control of health care could be just the beginning of our worries. … Please stay on the line for my assistant, who will explain how I'd like for you to get involved. Your input is vital to our efforts.

But Rep. Price's "assistant," Fred says, assured him that his "input" would consist entirely of having his name listed on the press release. This agrees with the testimony of another M.D. on the Daily Kos, who said he was told "it would require absolutely no time commitment."

http://www.slate.com/id/2227226/

[ccbatson]

It is a fund raising effort with a mildly deceptive twist. Mild is an understatement by comparison to what the left is doing. If a Physician isn't interested, they don't have to participate/contribute.

[jams]

It is a fund raising effort with a mildly deceptive twist. Mild is an understatement by comparison to what the left is doing. If a Physician isn't interested, they don't have to participate/contribute.

In just two minutes Cc can read an entire article and decide the proper response.

Just Amazing.

[ccbatson]

Isn't it? Happens I am familiar with the organization and its' past and current efforts and methods.

However, I like your story better, so let's go with that.

[jams]

So no salient points, just the Rightness of Your Opinion.

[gazhekwe]

"Because I said so."

[Detroitej72]

"Because I said so."

Very effective method, kind of like conservatives using the "do as I say, not as I do" approach.

[elganned]

It is a fund raising effort with a mildly deceptive twist. Mild is an understatement by comparison to what the left is doing.

So perhaps you could give us a specific instance of something the left is doing which is so much more deceptive than this?

[ccbatson]

What a beeutiful opening Elganned....Tsoros, ACORN, SEIU, and dozens of other corrupt liberal organizations using very shady techniques. See Michelle Malkin's book "Culture of Corruption"

[Stosh]

Isn't it? Happens I am familiar with the organization and its' past and current efforts and methods.

However, I like your story better, so let's go with that.

Said the founder of the organization. Sounds right up your alley.

[elganned]

What a beeutiful opening Elganned....Tsoros, ACORN, SEIU, and dozens of other corrupt liberal organizations using very shady techniques. See Michelle Malkin's book "Culture of Corruption"

I didn't ask for a book reference, I asked for a specific instance. Got one handy, or do you let Malkin do all your thinking for you?

[barnesfoto]

Did somebody bring up Michelle Malkin? The author of "In defense of Internment"?

The book that "reevaluates" and makes the case for putting Americans of certain racial backgrounds in camps?

[[from the lib website "reason.com")

... in her book In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror. She argues instead that the desert imprisonment of virtually all of the West Coast's Japanese-American men, women, and children for three years was the right thing to do: It was a sound military judgment that Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his top war advisers made on the basis of solid intelligence that Japan had organized untold numbers of Japanese resident aliens [[the "Issei") and their American-citizen children [[the "Nisei") into a vast network of spies and subversives.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/36412.html

[Lorax]

Gee, and I thought, according to the Rehtuglicans that FDR was a socialist/commie/pinko- guess even they can agree with him, when it comes to his most egregious decision based on lies and bad intellignece.

Sort of like the Bush Crime Family and their trumped-up lies and fascist rantings about torture, rendering, black site prisons, murder, Blackwater. Guess the Thugs learned from FDR- who knew?

[ccbatson]

OK...Hilary Clinton and Obama soliciting illegal contributions of thousands of dollars from dishwashers in New York that don't exist, etc. Later, after the crime is committed, both agreed to return some of the illegal contributions.

[Lorax]

OK...Hilary Clinton and Obama soliciting illegal contributions of thousands of dollars from dishwashers in New York that don't exist, etc. Later, after the crime is committed, both agreed to return some of the illegal contributions.

Source please?

[ccbatson]

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/a...contributions/

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...u8G04iZCnsBr7K

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...type=printable

Many many more for Obama and even more for Hilary....if you are not satisfied, try google.

Dang Lorax, you walked right into that one....I didn't even have to do anything for you to step in that pile of hurtin.

[Lorax]

LOL!!!!

You did what I expected you to- quoting Murdoch owned papers, and right wing biased sourcing.

Not much "hurtin'" going on here. Just a big sigh, since discredited sourcing is what I expected.

[ccbatson]

Didn't see the parts where they report Obama admitting to the corruption in some [[a minority) of instances and returning the money, or giving it to charity?

We call that having been caught with the hand in the cookie jar...and it is IRREFUTABLE evidence.

[Lorax]

No, never saw an admission of corruption. What Democratic politician has admitted corruption and not landed in jail?

Get out of jail free cards are issued only to Rethuglicans, or haven't you noticed the Bush Crime Family still operates?

[Big Dog]

Kaaaaching.

[ccbatson]

Returning money and/or donating it to charity is an admission of corruption.

[jams]

Stretch and bend...

[rb336]

It is a fund raising effort with a mildly deceptive twist. Mild is an understatement by comparison to what the left is doing. If a Physician isn't interested, they don't have to participate/contribute.

God, bats, you really are joking, aren't you?

this is exactly the same tactic the Heartland Foundation used in it's "we have a signed statement with 1000 sigs against GW" -- an outright fraud. there were valid signatures on it, but NONE of the climatologists listed actually signed it.
yet more right-wing lies, since, as usual, the truth is hopelessly biased to the left

[Lorax]

Returning money and/or donating it to charity is an admission of corruption.

Including when Rethuglicans do it?

[ccbatson]

Yep....but take a look at who is in power at the moment.