Here's the club for growth ad:
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
So I've seen this Ad on Dailykos twice today. I realize it's a google ad, so club for growth didn't explicitly buy ads for this site. But there are ways to specifically block specific sites from your google ad list.
of course the ad is complete nonsense... It has been thoroughly debunked here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
http://www.dkosopedia.com/...
here's what the dailykos FAQ says about ads:
Running an ad doesn't imply endorsement. But, if I start rejecting ads, THEN every ad that DOES run has an implied endorsement.
And you guys aren't idiots. The advertising purity trolls seem to think that site readers are moron automatons easily manipulated by advertising. I have a higher opinion of you guys. I actually think you're quite intelligent and capable of independent evaluation of the advertising you consume here and elsewhere.
Here's what the guardian article says about club for growth's bullshit:
A $1.2m television advertising campaign bankrolled by the conservative Club for Growth displays images of the union flag and Big Ben while intoning a figure of $22,750. A voiceover says: "In England, government health officials have decided that's how much six months of life is worth. If a medical treatment costs more, you're out of luck."
The number is based on a ratio of £30,000 a year used by Nice in its assessment of whether drugs provide value for money. Dillon said this was one of many variables in determining cost-effectiveness of medicines.
So, basically, in Britain, if the drug companies want to charge ridiculous amounts for pills, the NHS won't pay for it. You can pay for it yourself.
Leave it to the conservative idiots to conflate Britains attempt to look for cost effective treatments to putting a value on human life.
If they start valuing human life infinitely would that suddenly give the NHS infinite funding? No? Then STFU.
And are Obama's health care proposals anything like what they have in Britain? No. So they're spreading bullshit about British healthcare and then they imply that Britain's healthcare is what Obama proposes for the U.S. There's so much stupid in this ad I don't know what to debunk first.
...
Anyways. If anyone else saw the club for growth ad and wanted a good debunking, read that guardian article.