Unions, Lefties demand censorship of an ad they haven’t seen yet

Are they stupid?

Progressive health care reform groups demanded on Thursday that Washington’s NBC television affiliate refuse to air a 30-minute infomercial funded by a conservative group opposed to creating a public insurance plan.

The Service Employees International Union sent a letter to NBC4, arguing that the station has a responsibility to pull the documentary-style commercial paid for by Conservatives for Patients’ Rights. The ad, set to run Sunday after “Meet the Press,” “will be false, deceitful, and a distortion,” the union’s attorney wrote in the letter.

He knows this, because:

The SEIU has not seen the ad,…

Oh. He doesn’t know this.

More:

If the ad is aired and does contain falsehoods, CPR could face a fine from the Federal Communications Commission, said Levana Layendecker, the online campaigns director for Health Care for America Now, a coalition pushing to create a public insurance plan.

I get that the SEIU is trying to discredit the ad before it hits. Get their spin out early because the early spin is the most-oft-repeated spin, thus the most true.

But for crying out loud, if this ad is going to be as “false” and “deceitful” as they say, then the group will get fined. That’s way better PR for the SEIU’s position. Look! The anti-socialist-health care bastards are liars! Liars!

You want your opponents to get caught lying in public. You don’t try to stop them from lying. You encourage it!

So that all leads me to believe that the ad won’t be “false” and “deceitful” at all. Not that I’d listen to a damned thing the SEIU says in the first place.

Via Memeorandum