D Koz: Liberal friend plus Obamacare saves conservative crank's life. He's not so cranky anymore

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/30/1295883/-Liberal-friend-plus-Obamacare-saves-conservative-crank-s-life-He-s-not-so-cranky-anymore

WED APR 30, 2014 AT 10:20 AM PDT



attribution: Citizens Council for Health Freedom

Killing off their own supporters.
This is the sort of story that sends chills down the spines of conservatives everywhere:
Dean Angstadt fells trees for a living.
He's a self-employed, self-sufficient logger who has cleared his own path for most of his 57 years, never expecting help from anyone. And even though he'd been uninsured since 2009, he especially wanted nothing to do with the Affordable Care Act.

"I don't read what the Democrats have to say about it because I think they're full of it," he told his friend Bob Leinhauser, who suggested he sign up.

FULL story at link.

[Gothmog]

1. Watching Fox News can kill you

One of the reasons why this man did not get insurance was the fact that he was getting (or not getting) his information on the ACA from Fox News http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/30/1295910/-Yup-Watching-Fox-News-can-kill-you-Literally

The original story was heavy on the feel-good stuff (the ACA saved his life!) and thin on his motivations. So the Washington Post's Erik Wemple followed up, and yes, it was really all about Fox News.

He says that he “leans” Republican and essentially listened to what the GOP had to say about Obamacare, and not so much to what the Democrats had to say. As for his media diet, Anstadt says he goes online for some of his news, but when it comes to television, “Fox News, of course, and that’s basically what I watch on TV,” in addition to local news, he says. “I like some of those radicals” on Fox News, he says. “I like O’Reilly.”

Asked if Fox News had molded his view of Obamacare, Angstadt responded, “Yeah, yeah — they get people fired up. You know what, I really do have a different outlook on it. It’s really wrong that people are making it into a political thing. To me, it is a life-and-death thing.”

And this is why Republicans are so dead-set against helping even their own people:

Of Obamacare’s namesake, Angstadt says, “I didn’t care for Obama. I can’t say nothing bad about him now because it was his plan that probably saved my life.

Watching Fox News will not only make you less well informed but it can kill you.