As I noted in a previous Locker Room post, progressives arrive at all their conclusions about conservatives through introspection, i.e., “that’s how and why we do it so that must be what explains their behavior.” For several week now the claim of progressives have been that the rancor over government run health care coming from American citizens is being orchestrated and funded by big insurance companies–oddly enough, without pointing to any actual evidence. Well, now we know why. It turns out that the pharmaceutical industry is putting over $150 million into an add campaign supporting Obama’s government takeover of the healthcare industry. According to an editorial in today’s WSJ:
…the drug makers say they are still planning to spend some $150 million through autumn on a TV-ad drive supporting Obamacare. That’s more than John McCain spent on advertising in his entire campaign. And this new cash comes on top of the bundle Big Pharma has already spent with liberal pressure groups such as Families USA?on ads produced by White House consigliere David Axelrod’s former media firm AKPD.
So there it is, progressivist thinking at work; “If our movement is being funded by big pharma then all those demonstrators on the other side must be being funded by some other big business interest. Now who could that be? Oh yeah, it must be big insurance.”
