Well if a celebrity is for it, then it must be a good idea. The Obama administration launched a new social media campaign last week using controversial celebrities as spokespeople for the Affordable Care Act. Counting the celebrities’ Twitter followers alone, that gives the administration access to more than 67 million people to push the president’s mandatory healthcare program.
Singer Lady Gaga, comedians Sarah Silverman and John Hodgman, “Revenge” actors Nick Wechsler and Emily VanCamp, and “Parks and Rec” star Amy Poehler, are just a few celebrities who tweeted out or Instagrammed pictures of themselves holding signs with the hashtag “#GetCovered” as part of Obama’s social media campaign to get young people to sign up for his healthcare plan.
Once again, Hollywood celebrities were eager to use the power of Tinseltown to push a liberal message, without ever acknowledging that same power is used to promote violence. In early 2013, the top five movies at the box office included 65 scenes of violence, with 185 individual victims. Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” was a huge part of that total. But when Tarantino, who often relies on over-the top violence, was questioned about that, he said it was “totally disrespectful to [the Sandy Hook victims’] memory. Obviously, the issue is gun control and mental health.”
Get Covered was only the latest of a series of celebrity oriented initiatives. Hollywood A-listers from actor George Clooney to rapper Jay Z have raised millions for the president’s election. A wide variety of mostly entertainment media outlets have promoted Michelle Obama’s food crusades. In the first four years of her husband’s presidency, the First Lady appeared on everything from Disney’s “iCarly” to working out with “The Biggest Loser” at least 44 times.
As part of the new “#GetCovered” campaign, Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev even posed topless with the hashtag sign covering her. On October 1, singer John Legend tweeted, “F the shutdown. The Health Insurance Marketplace is now open in every state. Don’t wait another day to #GetCovered!”
This is somewhat of a repeat performance of last year’s publicity stunt where liberal starlets took to Twitter with pictures of themselves with pithy political messages promoting “women’s rights,” (which apparently meant government-funded abortions and contraception.)
After all, celebrities are the pinnacles of wisdom, especially when it comes to understanding politics and the American people. Sarah Silverman, for instance, last April called religious people “addicts & sociopaths;” conservatives racists, and tweets crass jokes like “Got a quickie aborsh in case R v W gets overturned,” and “My vagina has off-beat good looks.”
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