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This is a prime example of the misinformation that Conservative talk shows feed to their listeners. If this intentional misinformation is not propaganda, I don't know what is! When are you listeners of these lies going to realize you are being duped?
Conservatives push Reagan's 1961 attacks on "socialized medicine" but ignore that he was criticizing Medicare!
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On August 14, the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, and O'Reilly Factor guest host Laura Ingraham featured a recording of Ronald Reagan speaking in 1961 against "socialized medicine" for the American Medical Association's Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Medicare. Neither Drudge, Limbaugh, nor Ingraham, however, noted that Reagan was speaking out against an early version of Medicare, which has become very popular since it was enacted 44 years ago, or that Reagan's dire predictions of curtailments of freedom were never realized.
One thing though, the,....., persons you are calling (and which they have deluded themselves and the public) Republicans and conservatives are nothing of the sort.
The founding principles of the Republican party was to encourage small (not fortune 500 big) business, entrepreneurship for Americans even the most stigmatized.
One of our greatest Presidents in history was a Progressive, a Republican, a Roosevelt.
The pre-1994 GOP (http://www.gop.com/index.php/learn/accomplishment/ - broken link) had an impressive record on legislating: public investment in infrastructure; diplomacy; and social equity.
What has happened is that a lunatic fringe group, led by disc jockeys, has hijacked the good name and reputation of Republicans and conservatism.
I mean c'mon what is conservative about recklessly calling for war with Iran when our military is already stretched near its limits with no apparent end in sight, not to mention those that scream the loudest for it WILL NOT put THEIR OWN BLOOD ON THE LINE.
Call them for what they are.
The party of no, the party of no clue, the lunatic fringe cult of beck.
But they must assuredly DO NOT DESERVE to be called Republicans or conservatives.
In this modren cable world they can watch FOX """News""" exclusively, listen to the Limburger in their car, and read Newsmax or Breitbart. Reality never enters the equation.
One funny thing I have noticed at the gym on the Fort, the retirees who all have Medicare and Tricare for Life, turn the TV onto Fox"""News""" and the Active Military turn it off.
That's what they're good at. They did it to Kerry in 2004 convinving people he was a fraud and they were better at foreign policy. Now they're convincing people Obama's a Marxist and they're better with economics. It's really unbelieveable. If they scare America into putting them back into the WH in 2012 I will deeply consider moving to Canada or Europe.
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