Union Attempting To Get Anti-Nationalized Health Care Advertisement Pulled
Because it will be full of lies, distortions, blah, blah, blah.
Progressive health care reform groups demanded on Thursday that Washington’s NBC television affiliate refuse to air a 30-minute infomercial funded by a conservative group opposed to creating a public insurance plan.
The Service Employees International Union sent a letter to NBC4, arguing that the station has a responsibility to pull the documentary-style commercial paid for by Conservatives for Patients’ Rights. The ad, set to run Sunday after “Meet the Press,” “will be false, deceitful, and a distortion,” the union’s attorney wrote in the letter.
Notice the “will be” in that last statement. I thought that sounded a little odd, almost like the SEIU hasn’t even seen the ad yet. And, sure enough:
The SEIU has not seen the ad, but is drawing the conclusion from CPR’s record of running “demonstrably false” ads. The station has the duty to protect the public from misleading advertising, the letter argues.
So why is this ad “demonstrably false?” Because it runs contrary to the politics of the SEIU, that’s why. Facts don’t matter, only politics.
Though how the SEIU could demonstrate that the ad is false before even seeing it is beyond me.
And remember, these same anti-free speech thugs are the same ones telling us that we don’t need secret ballots in the labor organizing process.
