Obama Misinformation
Obviously, this will be an ongoing segment.
We’ve all heard the charges leveled, but you have to hand it to the Obama Administration. While accusing others of misinformation and sending plants to town hall meetings, they up and plant questioners with phony credentials themselves….
One supporter, Dr. Roxana Mayer, a physician who does not live in Jackson Lee’s district, praised the reform plan for overhauling a broken system.
The problem is “Dr.” Roxana Mayer only plays doctor on television. In real life, she’s an Obama campaign volunteer.
The Houston Chronicle originally identifed Roxana as a doctor, however once they were busted and had to do some real reporting…
… they had to issue a clarification.
Sheila Jackson Lee hugs Roxana Mayer at her town hall meeting at Peavy Neighborhood Center. Mayer identified herself as a physician who does not live in Jackson Lee’s district. However, her name does not appear in the database maintained by the Texas Medical Board, which licenses all doctors in Texas.
Misinformation, Ms. Douglass?
Congresswoman Shiela Jackson Lee was either in on the hustle or was a sucka. Which is it could easily be a Question of the Day applicable to all who support Obamacare.
August 13th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
“I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV!”
Wasn’t that line used as a lead in for an ad on TV many years ago?
August 13th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
And it wasn’t the Houston Chronicle that uncovered the plant, either. Nope, they just quietly scrubbed their online news to hide their omission.
I really like that some people are now calling the Democrat’s townhall meetings ‘greenhouses’ because there are so many plants there
Oh, and on a somewhat related note why doesn’t everyone send in notices on leftist health care lies to the flag site? Jam up their lists with supporters and make them sort out who’s who?! I think planting a fake doctor is pretty ‘fishy’ myself. Isn’t that dis-information?
August 13th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
@RightSide – Greenhouses: I love it! And I think that is a capital idea to “flag” these phonies.
August 13th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I sent youtube video to Flag@whitehouse.gov as a misinformation/fishy issue. Hopefully this “Dr.” will get the same treatment as Joe the Plumber
August 13th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Here is the email I sent and her answers (The reporter at the Houston Cronicle who wrote the story)
Read from the bottom up:
From: papa ray [Redacted]
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:52 PM
To: Horswell, Cindy
Subject: RE: Dr. Roxana Mayer
All you have to do is look here:
http://patterico.com/2009/08/12/roxana-mayer-im-not-a-doctor-but-i-play-one-at-town-hall-meetings/
Sorry about that. Don’t forget that verification is part of the job.
Papa Ray
— On Wed, 8/12/09, Horswell, Cindy wrote:
From: Horswell, Cindy
Subject: RE: Dr. Roxana Mayer
To: “papa ray”
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 4:18 PM
Am checking into it. If anybody has proof of her identity…I’d like to know it. Cindy Horswell
From: papa ray [Redacted]
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:03 PM
To: Horswell, Cindy
Subject: RE: Dr. Roxana Mayer
Have you seen this?
http://patterico.com/2009/08/12/hmmm-was-there-a-plant-at-the-sheila-jackson-lee-town-hall-meeting/
It appears that the good “Doctor” wasn’t exactly what she appeared to represent.
Is this worth a follow up? Perhaps along the line of democrat plants at “town hall meetings”.
Naw…didn’t think so.
Have a good day
Papa Ray
West Texas
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August 13th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
It’s starting to sound like the Democrats have a serious case of Psychological projection
August 13th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Oh, that’s funny. I have no doubt she’s a plant. She brought up preventative care, feeding Lee a cue to launch the subject. Plus, she’s sitting front and center where Lee does a little eye contact with her before and after (around 3:03). So even if Lee didn’t know she wasn’t a real doc, she had her story explained beforehand, didn’t she?
August 13th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Any repercussions in Texas for impersonating a physician?
The left has absolutely no credibility left with anybody that has an IQ over 50.
August 14th, 2009 at 12:11 am
That’s because the Left has an IQ of 40 or less – common sense -1!
August 14th, 2009 at 11:33 am
NOT misinformation at all.
This is a prime example of disinformation.