Unions Trying to Censor Debate on Health Care

It would be a shame if both sides of the nationalized health care debate were allowed to be heard by the public. At least, that's what the unions think:

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.

Wow, that must be some ad! The SEIU must have really been fuming when they saw it.

Except, they haven't seen it:

The SEIU has not seen the ad, but is drawing the conclusion from CPR’s record of running “demonstrably false” ads. The station has the duty to protect the public from misleading advertising, the letter argues.

As the article points out, if the information is false the organization will face big fines. In fact, the only thing the unions are trying to protect the public from is hearing the truth about what nationalized health care will do to our country.