We can’t say we here at Twitchy were huge fans of Generation Opportunity’s anti-Obamacare spot. You probably remember it; it was the one where a creepy Uncle Sam popping up from under the table to perform a gynecological exam had viewers threatening to gouge their eyes out.
Here it is, more than 1.8 million views later.
The point was simple enough: let doctors do their jobs and let politicians continue to do whatever it is they do to get paid — just keep them out of the exam room.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has been fighting the GOP’s War on Women™ long enough to know it when she sees it, and she’s looking for people to denounce the “deplorable and sexist” ad. Translation: the ad has a chance of working, and rather than refute the premise, let’s call it sexist. Don’t you see that the GOP shows utter disregard for women’s privacy and their ability to make their own medical decisions? That’s the job of the IRS once it takes over the health care system, right?
RT to tell #GOP leaders to repudiate the deplorable & sexist @GenOpportunity ad. #fem2 #Obamacare #ACA pic.twitter.com/V0xOid3JnP
— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) September 20, 2013
So, which GOP leaders will step forward to denounce the spot they had nothing to do with?
@PattyMurray thanks to #obamacare my wife and I have to pay up the wazoo in insurance hikes! 🙂
— Pocza (@dpocza) September 23, 2013
@PattyMurray are you signed up for Obamacare or are you taking the exempt status. Your WA ppl want to know.
— Pocza (@dpocza) September 23, 2013
Why yes, will the senator be exempting herself from the wonders of Obamacare? She certainly doesn’t want to run into that creepy ass cracka in the stars and stripes at her next doctor visit.
https://twitter.com/trknangel/status/382277119466016768
https://twitter.com/inachu/status/382111469464068096
https://twitter.com/fredypizza/status/382218562896547840
@PattyMurray @GenOpportunity
Is Congress too good for #Obamacare?
#DefundObamacare: pic.twitter.com/d7FNKPJ2Vy
#dontfundit
#tcot— Jeanette ❌ (@texasfreedom101) September 23, 2013
@PattyMurray Support defunding ACA, stand with the American people- we do not want this. Killing jobs, higher premiums, limited choice
— Jen (@LARunnerz) September 23, 2013
@PattyMurray Those who vote to fund Obamacare WILL be removed from office. We The People have had it with congress ignoring us!
— Scuba Therapy (@YesAllThis4Flag) September 23, 2013
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Update:
Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) has declared Generation Opportunity’s spot shameful and “so offensive to women.” What’s the offensive part? The speculum? No, the idea that the ad suggests opting out of Obamacare, which would deny women all of those “healthier options.”
SO OFFENSIVE to women. Shameful they r wasting $ preventing constituents from having healthier options. http://t.co/UhLYYmvVog
— Grace Meng (@RepGraceMeng) September 24, 2013
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