An unusually interesting clip of FOX News video posted by Rep. Cory Gardner's office on YouTube today:
This is an interview of Rep. Gardner last night by FOX News' popular evening anchor Megyn Kelly. The subject is ads from a pair of Colorado nonprofits released yesterday (blogged here) that have become hotly controversial–mostly as conservatives vented their outrage at the mildly suggestive content of the latest round. A few weeks ago, the "Brosurance" ad for Colorado's health insurance marketplace achieved a measure of virality, but the latest ads targeting women with "Shotskis," and "hot" guys being a motivator for birth control–free under Obamacare–have touched off an even bigger round of nationwide affected outrage from conservative pundits.
With that in mind, Gardner might have been surprised to discover that FOX host Kelly wasn't taking the bait. Kelly notes correctly that the young people targeted by these ads, and important to the success of health care reform, "might be doing keggers," and the ads might therefore be on target. Gardner, by contrast, comes off as stuffy and out of touch–to Kelly as well, though, we admit, maybe not to FOX News' target audience.
As unusual as it might seem on FOX News, this isn't the first time that Megyn Kelly has pushed back on conservatives and sexism. Kelly ripped into Erick Erickson of RedState this year after his diatribe about women in the workforce "hurting our children." In the case of these viral ads, looking past the attention-grabbing concepts, there's an obvious logic in them–as much as any catchy ad aimed at a specific demographic.
Which doesn't happen to be Cory Gardner's.
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Old people watch FNC.
http://www.people-press.org/2012/09/27/section-4-demographics-and-political-views-of-news-audiences/
Gardner is right. These ads are disgusting. Rush Limbaugh destroyed them today on his show. Way to backfire, libtards.
Have you tried deleting your hard drive? I think you'll like the results
Cory Boy is a tool, and you're a useless jackass.
And how is Rush doing these days? Is he struggling to find ads for his lame show that is about to be dumped?
N3bbish- it wasn't like you had to tell us you listened to and took your lead from lard Limpballs.I suspect everyone here was pretty well aware of the fact.How did the Lard "destroy"them,did he sit on them? Pretty sure it wasn't a logical argument unless it was that peculiar wingnut logic.
If Rush hates them, they must be great. That goes for everything Rush hates. But then Rush is a hateful man.
I've talked to a couple of the young people these ads are aimed at, the ones who have finished university and aged out of their parents policies, and their opinions are that these ads are spot on. They do what an ad is supposed to do; get your attention and prompt you torecognize that the product being marketed would benefit you. I have yet to see or hear a young person who is offended. It's their parents who don't like the ads. They burst their bubble that their kids don't do things like that.
I know – I did my own polling of my grown kids and nieces and nephews – they thought that the ads were funny, and weren't offended. Haven't tried it out on my out-of-state conservative relatives.
I regularly scroll through my high school kids' facebook pages (and we make them give us their passwords). From what I see, the ads are spot-on for the demographic.
We can only hope that the fauxrage of the right makes it cool to buy health insurance.
Dear Congressman. You're sitting there as a man of perceived moral character talking about the ills of this campaign, yet you have no qualms at telling a half-truth about Colorado "cancelations" you referenced to further your own political agenda.
You know perfectly well that 70% of those 250,000 cancelations were Anthem policies that are routinely cancelled and auto-re-enrolled as they have done for years.
Still awaiting your proposal for the "replace" part of the "repeal and replace" equation for the 100.000+ uninsured in our district you seem to have little interest in representing. (and btw, in a meeting today with a national insurance group they referenced Colorado's health exchange as a major success).
nice clip. No need for four minutes, though. This pretty much sums it up: