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[NewJerseyDem]

http://www.thehill.com/news/052004/medicare.aspx

The investigative arm of Congress has found that parts of a Bush administration video explaining changes to Medicare violate the government ban on publicity and propaganda.

In its decision released yesterday, the General Accounting Office (GAO) said that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that oversaw the production of the videos, had illegally used appropriated funds to make the “video news releases,” or VNRs.

The segment of the releases that violated the law was a short news report, intended to be broadcast by local television stations, and an accompanying script for anchors to use as a lead-in. Nowhere in the report did the narrator disclose that it was written and filmed by CMS.

“Neither the story packages nor scripts identified or CMS as the source … and the content of the news reports was attributed to individuals purporting to be reporters, but actually hired by an HHS subcontractor,” wrote Anthony Gamboa, GAO general counsel.

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1. Kerry's Response Nails It.

Kerry Statement on GAO Video News Release Decision

WASHINGTON, May 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Sen. John Kerry released the following statement today:

"Today's GAO decision that the Administration inappropriately used the Medicare Trust Fund for political advertisements is another example of how this White House has misrepresented its Medicare plan. From its inception, this bill has been a boondoggle for the drug companies and has been burdened by scandal after scandal. It's too bad that this Administration spends Medicare funds on convincing seniors that its failed drug card will give them real discounts instead of actually providing our seniors with real relief.


"America's seniors deserve a president who will ensure access to low-cost, safe prescription drugs - not a president who uses taxpayer dollars to try to pull the wool over their eyes."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=669&ncid=669&e=3&u=/usnw/20040519/pl_usnw/kerry_statement_on_gao_video_news_release_decision177_xml

[Fridays Child]

4. Give it a 5!

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5. Thanks!

I totally forgot to do that! :hi:

[KissMyAsscroft]

2. What about the IRS pamphlets?

The ones that promote the Bush agenda?

[Fridays Child]

3. Ain't our fault. We got us summah that there plausible deniability.

Heck, How're we supposed to know it warn't legal?