Green Police? No Audi for me

The "Green Police" Audi ad aired during Sunday's Super Bowl game was scary because, at the rate we're going, that could be America in the years ahead.

To know it was being aired to convince me to buy an Audi was counterproductive for that automobile company. A lot of the "green" propaganda falls in the same column with the "global warming" propaganda, in my opinion. And apparently I'm not alone because other conservative bloggers said the same thing.

However, some liberal bloggers loved the ad including Eileen at VB Dems who said, "Love this Super Bowl Ad!"

Green is mainstream – as evidenced by this funny ad run during last night’s Super Bowl. If only this conscientiousness would infiltrate Virginia Beach’s Parks and Rec department where all those gazillion plastic water bottles are tossed in the trash and not recycled.

She then wondered if the Green Police could arrest the mayor at his "fancy" office building.

The premise of the ad is not the premise of America where we believe in personal freedom. If libs are so concerned about green, they may want to check out the rest of the world where they would get their heads chopped off for sticking their noses into someone else's business.

Scott Lee of the Lee Brothers blog summed it up well:

Actually, it might just be a view into what the radical Left has in store for us! Banning plastic bags, forced recycling, and legislation to demand certain light bulbs is just the beginning! Not a good commercial, it made me mad!

Talk about overbearing, overreaching government ... this ad fed it all.

Phil thought the ad was overreaching. Mike hated it, too. Bob said to count him as part of the "creeped-out" group.

What was Audi thinking?

Infomercial = Obama filibuster?

Perhaps Wednesday night's ObamaCare infomercial did not turn out quite the way ABC News or the White House planned.

Look at what Jeff Poor at Business & Media Institute wrote:

Call this a teachable moment, but even with ABC’s best-laid plans to kickstart the debate about health care reform and not allow the “Prescription for America” special to become an “infomercial,” as many have complained – the president spent more than twice as much time as his questioners vaguely answering or not answering the questions asked of him. But the network consistently presented the event as part of the need to fix a "broken system." When asked, every one of the 164 hand-picked audience members said they felt that health care needed to be changed.

Obama answered questions in a "long-winded and vague" way, taking up 60% of the time allocated to the program:

The network also allowed him to dominate the program with long-winded and vague answers. Out of the 75 minutes the network dedicated over the two programs (commercials excluded), the president managed to take 60 percent of that time: 45 minutes to give 19 vague responses – not exactly the “dialogue” advertised by ABC.

You get the feeling at times this guy is just so full of himself such as his remark at the Monday press conference when he began an answer by saying, "I'm the President of the United States..." The humble factor is not there which makes the fact that Charles Gibson had to ask him to shorten his answers funny:

In fact, at one point, the president went on for four minutes and 33 seconds to answer a question about government interference, the “Big Brother fear” as the questioner put it and how it would be paid for. In the next segment Gibson pleaded with the president to keep his response to the next question shorter.

No Republican presence was allowed during this propaganda hour. The American people need to ask tough questions about universal health care and how a country whose back is already breaking with a heavy financial load will be able to pay for a $3 trillion program.

I will note that the older folks I know who lived through the Depression are hunkering down and preparing for another. One gentleman told me he is afraid this one will be worse than the last. Universal health care? Obama should be thinking about how to prevent this country from slipping into a financial abyss.

RNC live-blogging tonight's Obama infomercial

~RNC To Respond Live During Tonight's Primetime Obama Health Care Infomercial ~

www.GOP.COM/LIVERESPONSE

Starting at 10:00 PM EDT, the RNC will be live-blogging from www.gop.com/liveresponse during President Obama's Government-Run Health Care Infomercial.

Since ABC won't allow alternative views to be heard during the hour-long "primetime special," the RNC will be doing a minute-by-minute fact-check on all of President Obama's claims on government-run health care.

ABC (News) = All Barack Channel

With the upcoming ABC News infomercial about universal health care broadcasting from the Democrat White House this week, more and more people are writing about the decline of journalism and the cozy deal between Obama's administration and ABC News. Doug Patton at GOPUSA editorialized:

During the 1990s, conservatives referred to CNN as the "Clinton News Network" based on the fact that crazy old Ted Turner's news station was so ridiculously biased in favor of the Clinton White House that no honest person could deny it. Now, as Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has sardonically pointed out, ABC has become the "All Barack Channel."

The American Broadcasting Company, as it was known back when it still pretended to be fair and balanced, has gone far beyond the days of CNN's fawning coverage of the felon-in-chief, his choleric bride and the gang that couldn't lie straight. The mainstream media is so in love with Barack Obama that they continually try to one-up each other in their sycophantic coverage of their new president. But ABC has raised the stakes by taking up residence in the White House for a day in order to spew the Official Party Line on health care.

I don't want to hear whining from Democrats about Fox News Channel where a continuous presence of Democrats representing the other side of the issue is on display. It's called debate ... what ABC News is doing is called propaganda.

Obama-ABC News Network

Vicki McClure Davidson over at Frugal Cafe Blog Zone takes on the cozy deal between the Obama White House and ABC News as they prepare to present a one-sided view of universal health care with a forcefulness to make conservative women proud:

Do NOT give Obama or the White House minions the “benefit of the doubt” here. This is a definitive step in a socialist dictator’s attempt to reign over a nation: Control the public media and all forms of communication.

It gets better ... check out the entire post as well as the many links Ms. Davidson has to others blogging about this issue.