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. HEALTH CARE REFORM : POLITICAL PROPAGANDA : NEWSPAPERS EDITORIALS AND OPINION PIECES : DISABILITIES: DISCUSSION GROUPS: Obamacare is a Government Takeover Obamacare is a Government Takeover On the MSFriends Yahoo Groups list, the list owner shared a post with the complete text of a Washington Examiner editorial bearing the title Obamacare is a Government Takeover (Thursday, December 23, 2010, 12:59 PM) This was cited as an exception to the normal course of events on MSFriends as political discussions are not generally permitted, but health care reform is so important to those with multiple sclerosis that this exception of posting the article forwarded by an author of a book about Multiple Sclerosis, Tom Bayuk, was permitted. I provided the response below to this posting of one article about Health Care Reform from a less than credible source. Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:18:15 -0500 (EST) From: David P. Dillard <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSfriends] Fw: Obamacare is a Government Takeover . Since you now have been recipients of a rather biased Republican oriented and partisan editorial [from the Washington Examiner] about health care reform, you may want to read and learn from additional points of view on this subject using these links: Washington Examiner, the source of the shared article: The Washington Examiner From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Examiner The Washington Examiner is a free daily newspaper published in Springfield, Virginia, and distributed in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It is owned by Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz.[2] The newspaper was formerly distributed only in the suburbs of Washington, under the titles of Montgomery Journal, Prince George's Journal, and Northern Virginia Journal. Anschutz purchased their parent company, Journal Newspapers Inc., in October 2004. On February 1, 2005, the paper's name changed to the Washington Examiner, and it adopted a logo and format similar to that of another newspaper owned by Anschutz, the San Francisco Examiner.[3] The Examiner's parent company, Clarity Media Group, also owns the conservative opinion magazine The Weekly Standard.[4] Contents 1 Distribution 2 Format 3 Political views 4 See also 5 References 6 External links snip Political views When Anschutz started the Examiner in its current format, he envisioned creating a conservative competitor to The Washington Post. According to Politico.com, "When it came to the editorial page, Anschutzs instructions were explicit he 'wanted nothing but conservative columns and conservative op-ed writers,' said one former employee." The Examiner's conservative writers include Byron York (National Review), Michael Barone (American Enterprise Institute, Fox News), and David Freddoso (National Review, author of The Case Against Barack Obama). Conservative blogger Matthew Sheffield is in charge of the Examiner's web site. [9] The paper endorsed John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election.[10] The paper endorsed Adrian Fenty in the Democratic primary for mayor in 2010.[11] Also Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22washington% 20examiner%22%20and%20(conservative%20OR%20biased%20OR% 20republican%20OR%20%22editorial%20viewpoint%22%20OR%20ownership) &psj=1&wrapid=tlif12932032819391&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws A shorter URL for the above link: http://tinyurl.com/268abd5 A collection of resources regarding Obama and health care reform: Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=obama%20and%20%22health% 20care%20reform%22&rlz=1R2GGLL_en&psj=1&wrapid=tlif12932008402831&um= 1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws A shorter URL for the above link: http://tinyurl.com/2d6ljvr Google Government http://www.google.com/unclesam?hl=en&q= obama+and+%22health+care+reform%22&btnG=Search A shorter URL for the above link: http://tinyurl.com/28ngk2g Google News Archive http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=obama+and+ %22health+care+reform%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Search+Archives A shorter URL for the above link: http://tinyurl.com/25hy6j5 Google Blogs http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&ie= UTF-8&q=obama+and+%22health+care+reform%22&btnG=Search+Blogs A shorter URL for the above link: http://tinyurl.com/26o3b27 SCIRUS http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/search?q=obama+and+ %22health+care+reform%22&t=all&sort=0&g=s A shorter URL for the above link: http://tinyurl.com/243apet The first link from the Cato Institute is another example of loaded reporting on a political and government issue: Google News Archive http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22cato+institute%22+ and+%22koch+brothers%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Search+Archives A shorter URL for the above link: http://tinyurl.com/27m28ex Content Sample: Forbes Faces: The Koch Brothers - Forbes.com Forbes - Oct 2, 2000 The Koch brothers David and Charles are no strangers to legal squabbles or ... and serves on the Reason Foundation and CATO Institute boards David was the ... Related web pages THE CURSE ON THE KOCH BROTHERS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CNNMoney - Feb 17, 1997 ... Cup sailing race in 1992 Charles 61 founded the Cato Institute a Libertarian ... The other Koch brothers play minor roles in this family tragedy Bill's ... Related web pages The Brothers Koch: Rich, Political And Playing To Win : NPR NPR - Aug 26, 2010 ... second-largest privately held company in the US and the Koch brothers themselves? ... Among the organizations they've backed are the Cato Institute, ... The Brothers Koch: Rich, Political And Playing To... - 89.3 KPCC All 6 related - Related web pages The Cato Institute or Anarchism seen through the Multinationals' Eyes... Agencia IPI - Feb 10, 2005 The Cato Institute was founded by Edward H Crane when he stopped being the ... the beginning he was economically assisted by the Koch brothersCharles G and ... Related web pages Berkowitz: The Powerful Koch Boys From Kansas | Scoop News scoop.co.nz - Feb 15, 2006 ... for the nation's forests the Koch brothers of Kansas engineered a $13.2 billion ... Charles Koch cofounded the Cato Institute in 1977 while David helped ... Related web pages Work RED WHITE AND SMALL Ed Crane's Cato Institute Is a Think Tank... Pay-Per-View - Los Angeles Times - ProQuest Archiver - Jul 9, 1995 When Ed Crane decided to trade in the Cato Institute's colonial ..... Party circles in the early 1980s Crane and the Koch brothersDavid Koch had run as ... Related web pages The billionaires' brawl Brothers face off in bitter battle for family... Pay-Per-View - USA TODAY - ProQuest Archiver - Apr 8, 1998 ... luminary of the libertarian movement, having founded the Cato Institute. ... Whatever the outcome at trial, it seems unlikely the Koch brothers' long ... All 7 related - Related web pages (DV) Miller: Have a Koch and a Smile dissidentvoice.org - May 1, 2006 David Koch Charles brother founded the Cato Institute in 1977 and was a ... of free markets and deregulation the Koch brothers and their multitentacled ... Related web pages Big Money throws a Tea Party - World - Mail & Guardian Online Mail & Guardian Online - Nov 1, 2010 The Koch brothers also set up the Cato Institute the first freemarket thinktank in the US and the Mercatus Centre at George Mason University which now fills ... Related web pages on Glenn Beck, Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers - are these... MLive.com - Sep 7, 2010 Let's have a show of hands: how many of the right-wing ideologues on this thread are paid stooges of Murdoch, the Koch brothers or the Cato Institute? ... Glenn Beck, Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers ... - MLive.com All 6 related - Related web pages Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22cato+institute%22+ and+%22koch+brothers%22&hl=en&ned=us&tab=ns A shorter URL for the above link: http://tinyurl.com/24zp4fj Regarding the article shared to the membership of MSFriends by the list owner: It should be noted that when an article and in particular an article headline uses politically loaded terminology such as the substitution for the phrase health care reform with a politcally loaded term used by Republicans and Tea Party propagandists such as "Obamacare" one can expect a propaganda filled article to follow. Indeed Fox News, known for very biased reporting in the direction of Tea Party, Republican and right wing causes and points of view ordered its commentators to use the phrase government option instead of the phrase public option in all of its reporting, the same kind of loading of terminology. Can't say 'public option' on Fox News? Try these instead! Washington Post (blog) - Alexandra Petri - ?Dec 9, 2010? ... editor Bill Sammon at Fox News instructing reporters to refer to what has been termed the "public option" as the "government option" whenever possible. ... Fox News: Avoid 'public option' Politico (blog) In Defense of the Fox News Ban on "Public Option" TIME (blog) Media Matters Furious That Fox News Calls Government Option the Government ... Big Journalism mediabistro.com - The Week Magazine all 69 news articles http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned= us&hl=en&q=%22fox+news%22+and+%22government+option%22 A shorter URL for the above link: http://tinyurl.com/23vvfne I will also point out that rather than sharing one biased article from a much less credible source than say the New York Times or the Washington Post, I have gone to great lengths to create a resource that provides a great deal of information regarding health care reform as a research guide on the Temple University Research Guides server. http://guides.temple.edu/health-care-reform Thank you for reading this post. 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