Emma Berry

TRUTH-O-METER SAYS THIS IS A LIE:   New health care law is “a government takeover of health care.”

Some talking points keep getting recycled, even when they’re not true.

Such is the case with the claim by many Republicans that the new health care law is “a government takeover of health care.”   has repeatedly rated that False orPants on Fire and selected it as Politifact’s 2010 Lie of the Year. But the line still gets repeated, most recently by likely presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

During a speech in Ann Arbor, Mich., on May 12, 2011, Romney sought to explain how the health care plan he signed as governor of Massachusetts was different than the law signed by President  Barack Obama.

The Massachusetts plan — passed with bipartisan support in the Legislature in 2006 – sharesmany features with the Obama plan, so it poses a political problem for Romney.

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QUEENS COMMENTS

RE: Some talking points keep getting recycled, even when they’re not true.

Well,of course they do.  That is a very well-known propaganda technique called “ad nauseam”  which uses the strategy of tireless repetition of an idea or a story. This strategy works best when media sources are limited or controlled by the propagandist(s).  U.S. mainstream media is limited to six primary outlets–all owned by billionaire conservatives. Repetition helps to stick the misinformation in our minds.  Your best defense to such tactics is to realize that any story that is repeated again and again and again is most likely mostly false.

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