Subject: [big campaign] FW: Jack Black, America Ferrera Take On "Liars for Hire" in New HCAN Video
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:02:26 -0400
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For Immediate Release*                    Contacts:* Avram Goldstein,
[email-masked]

October 12, 2010

202-587-1634
cell: 202-744-1925

Christy Setzer, [email-masked]

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Jack Black, America Ferrera Take On “Liars for Hire” in New HCAN Video
*Activists,
Celebrities Encourage Voters to “Stop the Lies” * *From U.S. Chamber of
Commerce and Industry Front Groups*

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Washington, DC -- Health insurance industry front groups and their allies
are flooding the airwaves with political ads presenting false information
about health reform and its supporters, so Health Care for America
Now<http://www.healthcareforamericanow.org>(HCAN) is using laughter to
fight back. HCAN, the coalition that led the
successful fight for health reform, collaborated with celebrated actors Jack
Black and America Ferrera to create a hilarious
video<http://bit.ly/StopSpewmanP>lampooning corporate liars for
hire—front groups like the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, American Crossroads and 60 Plus Association. These kinds of groups
are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on political propaganda to
mislead voters in advance of the November election. On the most important
questions facing the country’s future—the economy, energy, financial reform
and health care—the anti-progressive myth-making machine is going at full
tilt, fueled by mountains of campaign cash from unidentified sources.

Black and Ferrera donated their comedic talents to help HCAN and its
partners fight the lies and spread the truth. The result is The
Mis-Informant <http://bit.ly/StopSpewmanP>, a multi-part video about Nathan
Spewman, a propagandist who stops at nothing—including going to a school to
recruit young children to join his campaign of deception—to spread
ridiculous lies for corporate clients who line his pockets with cash. HCAN
will use the video to expose the unfounded attacks on the Affordable Care
Act.

“While this video is brilliant comedy, it is also part of a serious public
education effort,” said HCAN Executive Director Ethan Rome. “The new health
care law puts an end to the worst insurance company abuses, ends
out-of-pocket costs for preventive care and helps seniors maintain their
independence. Opponents of the law are spending millions to spread outright
lies about the law and its supporters.”

The Chamber of Commerce and other front groups have pledged to spend upwards
of $400 million—mostly from undisclosed sources—to spread lies about the new
health care law and other progressive issues. A multimillion-dollar ad
campaign by 60 Plus, designed to sow fear about Medicare, was so egregious
that HCAN was forced to ask 83 TV stations to pull the false attack
ads<goog_1115403672>.
<http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/stop_airing_misleading_ads>

“Thanks to recent rulings by the U.S. Supreme
Court<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/10/conservatives-combat-foes-with-conv.html>,
anyone—big corporations, billionaires, foreign powers, even terrorist
groups—is free to secretly donate to front groups that unleash lies on the
public,” Rome said. “America has been put up for sale to the highest bidder,
and the mystery funders are putting excessive profits ahead of the needs of
working families.”

Viewers of The Mis-Informant will be directed to the Spewman Hotline
(206-438-3964) to sign up for text updates and to a web page where visitors
will be urged to vote and encouraged to take concrete actions that motivate
friends and families to stop the lies and participate in the political
process.

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*Health Care for America Now is a national grassroots coalition of more than
1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people. HCAN led
the fight over the past two years to win passage of health reform and to
keep Congress from being steamrolled by corporate special interests*

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