This article from the Christian Science Monitor makes very apparent why those who support health care need to get out and make our voices heard. It lays out the activities of President Obama to promote health care reform and of conservative tv personality Glenn Beck to prevent it.
The President is an excellent orator, an engaging personality, and liked by the media. He is a good person to have on your side, there is no doubt about it. But ultimately the White House does not control the media. Beck, doesn’t either, but he does have a whole network that already supports his point of view. Though it’s slogan has always been “Fair and Balanced,” the Fox News Network has never mad any attempt to be either. So they have been quite helpful to an anti-reform cause.
Meanwhile, back in Washington Beck was broadcasting live on the Fox News Channel as part of something he’s dubbed “The 9-12 Project.” The occasion was a “tea party” march and rally organized by “FreedomWorks” to protest the “irresponsible government takeover of our nation’s healthcare, devastating new energy taxes, and trillions of dollars in red ink.”
Some 450 tour buses were expected to bring protesters from around the country. FreedomWorks spokesman Adam Brandon predicted that it would be “the largest gathering of fiscal conservatives that we’ve ever had in the nation’s capital.” Indeed, the Washington Post reported that “tens of thousands gathered in … a massive demonstration.”
via Obama takes on Glenn Beck…, Christian Science Monitor, 12 September 2009
I have seen correspondents on Fox News actively promote the anti-taxation tea parties, the 9-12 Project and Freedom Works rallies. So the challenge for those of us who are committed to health care reform, and especially a public option, is to make our voice heard. How, I’m not so sure. But I can think of a few things. Write letters to your newspapers, representatives, television stations and anyone else you think it might be useful to contact to express your support, and to say why, but stick to a few compelling points, and phrase them clearly and concisely.
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Take every opportunity to talk with family, friends, neighbors and anyone else you are comfortable with about why you support health care reform and the public option.
Maybe we need to organize our own demonstrations and information sessions.
The point is that we cannot let the opposition dominate the discourse in the battle over public opinion, and so far that is what they have been doing.
For talking points on why a public option is a good idea, I suggest the following link to the key points of a December 2008 report Institute for America’s Future and the UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center on Health, Economic & Family Security. Any other suggestions?