How forward-thinking is China's leadership?

Instead of actually trying to diminish air pollution, it sets up a gigantic video screen of clean air in Beijing. How helpful!

This is a fictionalized version of how Republicans typify Obamacare.

And THIS is the actual version.

I was reminded of this propaganda/idiocy while reading the New York Times investigation "G.O.P. Maps Out Waves of Attacks Over Health Law."

The gist? Republicans will mount anecdotal evidence and fictional numbers attacking Obamacare. Then when the opposition refutes the G.O.P., they simply pivot to a different wave of attacks. Here's a sample:

Republicans have gone to the floor of the House and the Senate to tell constituent stories of soaring premiums or yawning new deductibles. But on Wednesday, the White House Council of Economic Advisers released a report showing that health care spending had grown by 1.3 percent since 2010, the year the health care law passed. That is the lowest rate on record for any three-year period and less than a third of the average since 1965, according to the White House.

In short, those are some lying motherfuckers.

Why does Tucker Carlson compares Charles and David Koch to Satan?

David Koch

Billionaire right-wingers Charles and David Koch run an oil, chemical and consumer products conglomerate. They’re also pretty terrible people. The Washington Post has a terrific article up titled Billionaire Koch brothers use Web to take on media reports they dispute.”

If the Kochs have a Public Enemy No. 1 in the media, it is most assuredly Jane Mayer. [She] has been on the company’s radar since the New Yorker published her 10,000-word investigation of the Kochs’ philanthropic and political activities in August 2010. 

The article, titled “Covert Operations,” detailed the Kochs’ financial support of a network of conservative-libertarian think tanks and organizations. The Kochs were so incensed by the article’s suggestion that their activities were “secretive” and designed for personal enrichment that the normally press-averse David Koch gave several interviews. In one, he denounced Mayer’s article as “hateful.” The New Yorker stood by its story. 

When Mayer’s article became a finalist for a National Magazine Award in early 2011, Koch Industries took the unusual step of writing to the award’s sponsor, the American Society of Magazine Editors, to object. “Her article is ideologically slanted and a prime example of a disturbing trend in journalism, where agenda-driven advocacy masquerades as objective reporting,” wrote Koch attorney Mark V. Holden... “Given these facts, it would be inappropriate for ASME to give Ms. Mayer’s article an award in Reporting.”

She lost. More?

KochFacts [a Koch brothers propaganda mouthpiece] now denounces Mayer even before her stories appear. In a posting May 18, the Web site predicted that a forthcoming Mayer article (about David Koch’s involvement in public television) “will be another attempt to smear us while advancing her partisan agenda.” But that was just a guess; as the anonymous author of the post admitted, “We don’t precisely know the content of her story.” 

Next, a Koch conspirator tries to leak a story that Mayer is a plagiarist to the Daily Caller.

…Tucker Carlson, the Daily Caller’s editor in chief, said in an interview that he doesn’t remember who gave his Web site the original tip about Mayer. But Carlson said the source is immaterial. “Every story idea winds up with an agenda behind it,” he said. “I’d be happy to take a story from Satan himself as long as it was true.”

Yes, you read that right. Conservative bow-tie wearer Tucker Carlson likened the Koch brothers to Satan. Since I'm a secular humanist, I'm going to assume that's just a metaphor, though.