The least-trusted flack on CNN, Wolf Blitzer, just interviewed Senator Jim DeMint. Blitzer allowed DeMint to explain why his tireless efforts over the years to secure real health care reform had all been thwarted by Democrats. In the course of this stand-up routine, DeMint supported the troglodyte Republican position by again citing "studies" done by the Lewin Group and (I think he said) other "non-partisan, independent" groups.
I can understand that, what with Michael Jackson having died so suddenly and the general press of flacking so cheerfully and enthusiastically for his once-proud network, Blitzer probably doesn't have much time for any real news, but surely somebody at CNN ought to be watching MSNBC. The Lewin Group, as Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have been reporting, is part of Ingenix, which is owned by United Healthcare Group, which is the largest health insurer in the country. Citing the Lewin Group as non-partisan and independent, repeated incessantly by talking-pointed-head Republicans as part of their catechism of greed and meanness, is lying. The Lewin Group is no more non-partisan and independent than DeMint himself and his fellow-liars, Republicans and various "dog" Democrats, who all have very good reasons, no doubt, for voting with the super-wealthy insurance companies and against the needs and hopes of the American people.
Be warned: Wolf Blitzer, the chief flack at Lou Dobbs' birther network, makes CNN one of the pitiful places Republicans can still lie confidently about the Lewin Group.
since we no longer have the ability to think for ourselves.
From the number of comments posted here (one, not including this one), the weepublican Party's strategy is working just fine . . . the gospel of C Street is being spewed about to every corner of the country . . . as planned.
I once read about Joseph Goebbels and how he engineered the Nazis propaganda machine to broadcast its message to an ever-widening audience. Towards the beginning of WWII, he complained that while it was easy enuf to disseminate propaganda to urban populations, getting it to the rural areas was more challenging.
It seems the reverse is true today, for the fascist conservative mantra of less (effective) government, more morality police, mandatory religious indoctrination, etc., etc., ad nauseum -- it plays very well to the trailor-park-trash crowds, but not so in NYC or LA.
Enter CNN et al . . . which, along with other easily brow-beaten "news" outlets, treats these treasonist thugs as legitimate voices which should be tolerated -- as opposed to thrown in jail or heavily medicated.
That's the real issue here. When do we, as a civilized society, stop tolerating the bullying stress-makers?
These people are mental . . . and do not deserve the compliment of rational objection.