After Getting Pummelled By Fact Checkers Koch Brothers Dump Obamacare Horror Story Ads

By: Jason Easleymore from Jason Easley
Tuesday, March, 18th, 2014, 2:08 pm

The Koch brothers spent millions of dollars on ads that focused on bogus ACA horror stories, but after being eviscerated by fact checkers, the Koch boys have changed their course.

The infamous cancer Obamacare victim ad that Sarah Jones described as, “An ad so misleading that even conservatives won’t back its Obamacare claims. In the Americans for Prosperity ad aimed at destroying Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Gary Peters, Julie Boonstra inaccurately claims that Obamacare is threatening her cancer treatment and that it “jeopardized my health.”

It turns out that Boonstra was a Republican through and through, and her story of ACA victimization was widely debunked by fact checkers everywhere because it failed to mention that Boonstra would save $1,200 on her health insurance premiums under Obamacare.

The Koch funded ad completely backfired in Michigan, and has helped its target, Democrat Gary Peters, to lead the U.S. Senate race.

These completely fabricated tales of Obamacare woe have been turning up in states all across the country, and they have been called out for being false at every turn.

Because of the negative backlash, it appears that the Koch brothers are trying a new approach. Instead of claiming that the ACA will literally kill you, Koch money is now being spent on ads that argue that the law doesn’t work.
By rjzip | 03/19/2014 09:25 AM | 5 comments
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  • I've just heard that the feds are promoting Obamacare with their navigators through U.S. Embassies IN Mexico to Mexicans?!!! And I am supposed to pay for this?!! Logic only to the warped, progressive mind. Just remember, Democrats, at some point you're gonna run out of other people's money to pay for all your utopian dreams.
    manjoguy 03/28/2014 05:03 PM
  • The Republicans so detest Obamacare and want it to fail so badly that they don't care if their efforts to sabotage the law hurt millions of Americans. It's an extremely cynical ploy, but cynicism is all the GOP is about these days.

    For example, here in TX, millions of workers are too poor to be able to afford even the cheapest of ACA plans. The irony is that a million or so of these people would have been eligible for Medicaid. EXCEPT, our brilliant Republican leadership declined to expand Medicaid to cover them. It's pathetic that Republicans only care about Republican voters, not everyone they are elected to serve.
    BearinFW 03/20/2014 12:06 AM
  • LOL, Leather, I'll try to be less 'stupic' from now on. First step is to give back my Masters Degree. What are you going to do to be less 'stupic'?
    rjzip 03/19/2014 02:33 PM
  • U R A STUPIC CUNT...
    leathercowboy99 03/19/2014 01:05 PM
  • It is hard to understand why two guys worth $36B EACH don't want those barely eking out a living not to have health care.

    It isn't hard to understand how to hurt them back. The following are Koch Brothers Brands, please don't buy them:

    Paper products, they own Georgia Pacific which includes Brawny paper towels, Vanity Fair napkins etc, Angel Soft tissue, Dixie paper plates, cups, Quilted Northern toilet paper, Sparkle paper towels, MardiGras napkins, paper wear.

    They also own carpeting sold under the brands Stainmaster Carpets and Antron Carpeting.
    txholdup 03/19/2014 11:06 AM