Koch Group Throws Boozy Anti-Obamacare Tailgate Party At College Football Game
Source: Think Progress
The Koch brothers-funded Generation Opportunity famous for its series of over-the-top advertisements trying to scare young Americans into not buying health coverage through Obamacares insurance marketplaces took its opposition to health care reform to a whole new level on Saturday. The group threw a tailgate party during the University of Miami-Virginia Tech football that featured flashy cars, drinking games, models, a DJ, and plenty of educational material about why young people shouldnt take advantage of Obamacare.
We rolled in with a fleet of Hummers, F-150s and Suburbans, each vehicle equipped with an 8 high balloon bouquet floating overhead. We hired a popular student DJ from UMiami (DJ Joey), set up OptOut cornhole sets, *beer pong tables, bought 75 pizzas, and hired 8 brand ambassadors aka models with bullhorns to help out, wrote David Pasch, Generation Opportunitys communication director, in en email to the Tampa Bay Times. *Student activists independently brought (lots of) beer and liquor for consumption by those 21 and over. Oh yeah, and we educated students about their healthcare options outside the expensive and creepy Obamacare exchanges.
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The tailgate partys fun-and-games atmosphere is a departure from the doom-and-gloom ambiance of its Creepy Uncle Sam ads. One such advertisement features a young woman going in for a Pap smear, only to be greeted by Creepy Uncle Sam leering over her with a speculum.
This wont be the last time Generation Opportunity throws this kind of event, either. The group is touring 20 different campuses this fall in a $750,000 effort to convince college students that theyre better off being uninsured than getting health coverage through Obamacare.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/11/11/2923411/creepy-uncle-sam-tailgate/
Yup, the Koch brothers are dropping nearly a million dollars to convince young adults to go without health coverage. Indeed, I guess we shouldn't be surprised that the Koch brothers would equate getting checks for cervical cancer with being leered at by a pervert.
snacker
(3,619 posts)I'm thinking some of these students are on and can stay on their parents' insurance until they are 26, thanks to ACA.
SolutionisSolidarity
(606 posts)The kind of kids who get to go to college have parents rich enough to be insured.
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)I think the joke is on the Koch brothers----all of these students are probably covered under their parents' policy until age 26. I wouldn't think the drunken college student constituency buys insurance, but they sure sucked up the free beer and pizza on the Koch brothers' dime.
ANOIS
(112 posts)have survived prostate cancer. It's good to have health coverage!
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)from those dirty, thieving old koots and still sign up for affordable health care. Get a big, free kick ass beer party and sign up anyway. That would be a gratifying fuck you to those two old shits.
snacker
(3,619 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)You can only become wealthy if you give all of your money to us.
Good luck with that, not everyone is as stupid as the morons in your teaparty who come out to listen to Palin babble non-sense.
The tea party is not the first cult to recruit on college campuses, scientology has been trying this for quite some time
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)pizzas leaving the "OptOut" function heading straight home to get on Obamacares anyways! Make it very snarky and tongue in cheek!
SansACause
(520 posts)You'd think that have Joe Camel handing out cigs, too. Go one step beyond, kids. Not only go without health insurance, but actively damage your health! That'll teach Obummer!
ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)That seems like a low-ball amount for the kind of party described.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)Alex LearyAlex Leary, Times Washington Bureau Chief
Monday, November 11, 2013
Generation Opportunity, the group working to dissuade young people from signing up for Obamacare, brought its raucous brand of politics to the University of Miami on Saturday.
A tailgate party at the UM-Virginia Tech football game featured a DJ, tons of free beer, liquor and pizza.
And Creepy Uncle Sam.
"We rolled in with a fleet of Hummers, F-150s and Suburbans, each vehicle equipped with an 8 high balloon bouquet floating overhead. We hired a popular student DJ from UMiami (DJ Joey), set up OptOut cornhole sets, beer pong tables*, bought 75 pizzas, and hired 8 brand ambassadors aka models with bullhorns to help out," David Pasch, the group's communication director, wrote in an email. "*Student activists independently brought (lots of) beer and liquor for consumption by those 21 and over. Oh yeah, and we educated students about their healthcare options outside the expensive and creepy Obamacare exchanges."
He said about 250 people attended, including 100 UM College Republicans who helped promote the event over the past couple weeks and worked the crowd. Judging from the pictures, it seems some were there more for the party than the message.
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/chugging-beers-with-creepy-uncle-sam/2151865
big_dog
(4,144 posts)was anyone checking id's here?
Arkana
(24,347 posts)then went and signed up for health insurance.
Indyfan53
(473 posts)5 years from now, any of those frat douche bags who bought their propaganda will be kicking themselves as they die in an alley from pneumonia because they couldn't even afford to see a doctor.
progree
(10,908 posts)I see the RWers are opening their wallets --
Lots more pictures at:
http://news.yahoo.com/creepy-uncle-sam-university-of-miami-230827005.html
This one is captioned "And Creepy Uncle Sam earned his nickname" (note the organization's name -- OptOut.org)
In other news, The PBS Newshour had a segment tonight on getting the "Young Invincibles" to sign up. Most of those featured knew they needed health insurance (given that we don't have Medicare For All) but they featured one bozo of Young Americans for Liberty that was against government mandates.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/july-dec13/wisconsin_11-11.html
From the transcript which is also at the above link along with the video:
HALEY SINKLAIR: Then I have to deal with those consequences because I made that choice as an individual to go uninsured. And I have to deal with the expense. And if I have to {go} into debt again after college, I have to. That's my individual responsibility.
Yeah, assuming you can get another loan. The hospital's bill collectors are bill collectors, not loans sales-people, you freekin... It will most likely be those who pay for insurance who ultimately foot the bill for your exercise in individual responsibility and "Liberty" when you declare bankruptcy.
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)WTF? She's too young to know that bankruptcy will follow her for years and years. What a freaking fool.
progree
(10,908 posts). . ^--sorry I don't know how to embed this particular one - its a must-click-and-see
From: http://news.yahoo.com/creepy-uncle-sam-university-of-miami-230827005.html
The still photo version of the above is the 9th photo in the above link (but I can't embed that either, sigh)
And this one has no caption (its from the photo gallery at the above link)
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)it just showcases what the Repuke party has become and highlights the fact that they are really just the "last ragged turd" swirling around the commode, desperately trying to swim against the suction pulling them down to the sewer.
This smacks of "desperation". I love the smell of cheep beer and Bacardi puke in the morning...it smells like victory!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)and that IDs were thoroughly checked.