The White House needed some good PR for its unpopular Health Care takeover. Obama set the propaganda machine in motion. 700,000 tax dollars later, formerly beloved American icon Andy Griffith is wooing us to socialism with his good ol’ boy demeanor. Perhaps you have seen the ad air in your area.
That’s right. Big bucks being spent to propagandize you with views you denounce personally, but are forced to pay for.
Of course, we have long accepted this arrangement—it’s called public education.
Now we get it fed to us in a lovable, disarming format: former small town sheriff, good ol’ boy sleuth-attorney Matlock, Gospel singer, all-American personality. Who couldn’t love whatever he says?
And he makes it sound so good: “Free checkups, lower prescription costs, and better ways to protect us and Medicare from fraud.” With a vigorous shout Andy invites us to “See what else is new! I believe you’re gonna like it.”
Indeed, I think you should see what else is new. But I doubt you’ll like it much. You won’t believe it how bad it looks:
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) had his assistants create a detailed “flow chart” based on a line-by-line study of the 2,400 pages. The result is a whole lot of chart and not much flow amidst the massive new health care bureaucracy. See a hi-res version here.
Bloomberg columnist Kevin Hassett summarizes:
The new law creates 68 grant programs, 47 bureaucratic entities, 29 demonstration or pilot programs, six regulatory systems, six compliance standards and two entitlements.
The viewer will note that in the chart, all flow leads to a central source, the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Hassett notes her (Kathleen Sebelius’) unchecked power:
Getting that massive enterprise up and running will be next to impossible. So Democrats streamlined the process by granting Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the authority to make judgments that can’t be challenged either administratively or through the courts.
Obamacare is about government expansion and government control—centralized control. And I don’t care what good ol’ boy’s face you put on it, I ain’t for it.
Joel McDurmon, M.Div., Reformed Episcopal Theological Seminary, is the Director of Research for American Vision. He has authored four books and also serves as a lecturer and regular contributor to the American Vision website. He joined American Vision's staff in the June of 2008. Joel and his wife and four sons live in Dallas, Georgia.
Just a reminder to all that Jesus himself said that no one is good but God. This includes Andy Griffith, who appears to be ruining his reputation further with this commercial.
I miss Don Knotts even more…Andy Griffith, in one televison moment, lost his reputation, and placed a tarnished, imbecilic crown on his inbred, redneck head.
Next thing you know we'll hear Opie is gay and Aunt Bea is in a burka fighting with the Taliban! And Barney is the head of the TIDES foundation!
Unfortunately most of hollywood, washington politicians and the good ole media are L I B E R A L. Liars, illegitimate, Bad, Erroneous, restive,agogue & most of of LOST!
Andy Griffith has always been a scuzball. I met him at a local A&P when he was pushing RITZ Crackers back in the 70's as well as later for a promotional for some beans. In the 80's he came to my town making an ALPO dog food commercial and his arrogance and rudeness was noticed and talked about by everyone in this small N.C. town for a long, long time. He was rude and obnoxious when I met him when I was 8 as well as when I was 21.
He and Ron Howard supported the over-obvious socialist democrat for the U.S. presidency Barack Hussein Obama, he supported the socialist democrat for U.S. senate in N.C. Kay Hagan and the socialst democrat for N.C. governor Beverly Perdue.
Even though I have never liked Andy Griffith since I met him I still enjoyed watching the Andy Griffith show until 2008.
I didn't give away or sell my Andy Griffith DVD's after the 2008 so-called election, I trashed them and I won't allow my kids to watch him now either. The same goes for Ron Howard movies.
The galling thing is that our tax money is being used to sell us on this totally disgusting, out of hand and hopefully unconstitutional plan. Way too much power in the hands of the Sec of Health and Human Services. Speaking of health, why hasn't the press jumped on all of the "healthy vacations" this President and his family are taking, and have been taking on tax payer coffers. How many times did President BO go golfing during the gulf crisis, and why, since the leak has stopped and the damage seems to be less than anticipated, hasn't the ban on off shore drilling in the gulf been lifted. He is acting more and more like a Chavez style dictator.
wELL, LET ME SAY THAT THE lying BASTARDS in this govt have stooped to levels way to low! My mind is made up NO matter who you put in there that says he is for this healthcare system. I am NOT for it and if Andy G. is well he is wrong and If he couldn't stand up to the facts then well Andy is just one more who is wrong! I'd say I did loose respect for the man. Truth is he is an actor and all actors are liars, They play something they are NOT! So, how much do we trust even Andy Griffith? NOT! I trust in the LORD JESUS CHRIST!!! HE NEVER lied to me!! He is trustworthy. Psa 118:8 KJV Pro 3:5-7
I have always been a big Andy Griffith and Opie fan because of the wholesome show but have learned that they aren't what I thought they were. Opie turned out to be a big movie producer and a flaming liiberal and I vowed never to spend a dime supporting any movie he made. Andy made a movie in Arkansas a few years ago with Billy Bob Thornton that never was released to the theaters. It did come out on vidio though so I rented it and it was so horribly vulgar that I couldn't stand to watch it. The name of the movie was "Daddy and Them" I lost respect for him then and this Obamacare advertisement really backed up my opinion of him. He certainly isn't the nice country boy we all loved.
He's an old man, he's not doing any shows, he probably needs the money, so I'll just assume that's why he did the commercial. But one has to realize that most of Hollywood are screaming liberals. Look at Ron Howard, he's about as liberal as they come, so why are we not suprised that Mr. Griffin would even want this. Just because my beloved Andy Griffin is telling everyone to support this means that we have to believe what he says. Its another desparatate attempt by the Dumocrats to get things back on track since their train derailed last year and is getting worse as the months pass.
Andy Griffith does not need any money. It was never about the money, it's all about politics and his leftist beliefs. Same for Ron Howard who if he never works another day in his life, will still make money off the money already accumulated and syndication rights and percentages. I guess Opey and Andy didn't learn anything from the episode about the boy bullying Opey for his lunch money, and Opey had to light into him like a windmill in a tornado. That was redistribution of wealth, wasn't it? The same as the feel-good socialist tactics they now believe in.
He's a senile old man.
By Andy's own comments in an interview I watches some years ago. He claimed Francis Bavier (Aunt Bee) didn't like him, he didn't know why. Maybe the mystery has been solved.
I didn't know Andy was a flaming liberal. Sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Friends
Let us not put ourselves in the same boat.. Name calling is never the answer…. Andy is still a good man and a good actor…. Instead of putting him down for this, let us contilnue to work to show all mankind that we are above this health care bill and show them why it is destroying this great nation of ours…
Ronald Regan said it correctly … Government is not the answer government is the problem… Andy is just expressing his political views and we greatly disagree with him…
We have an election coming up,,, lets us work hard to get this anti american congress out of office…. Then work to overthrow this terrible bill, or pass a bill that will refuse to fund it…
Cutting taxes and cutting out all pork, and stop bailing out failed business's will set us back onto the right path…
At least it will be a start…
Dr. Bill
Well, I was a Andy Griffith fan before this last venture of his and the Obummer administration. Realize that Andy is an “actor” and that he gets paid to say everything and “act” a certain way. Our Actor-In-Chief needs someone that people can relate to in order to really lure us into socialism willingly. I guess old Andy is needing work nowadays.