The Epilogue for 7/30/09: Politico's Shameful Hit Job On Pelosi

Lost in the fray of many things today has been Nancy Pelosi slamming the medical insurance lobbyists today in a major fashion.

And that very vocal lambasting of those shameful lobbyists promoted Hackio's Glenn Thrush to do another one of his usual, shameful hit jobs of crap that he writes.

In case you missed it, here is what Pelosi said:

“They are the villains in this,” Pelosi said of private insurers. “They have been part of the problem in a major way. They are doing everything in their power to stop a public option from happening. And the public has to know that. They can disguise their arguments any way they want, but the fact is that they don’t want the competition.”

That realness from Pelosi prompted Thrush to dig some dirt into Pelosi's contributions over the last few years from PAC.

It turns out that Pelosi herself has, in fact, been a significant if not huge recipient of the insurance industry's largesse. Her PAC and personal campaign account collecting $177,000 in the '08 cycle and $41,000 in the '10 cycle, according to the indespensible Opensecrets.org.

That's $211k total.

Now, notice Thrush's title of his post: Insurers gave Pelosi $211k

Then, Thrush goes and says this

It's important to note that the "insurance" rubric used by Opensecrets includes other kinds of insurers -- auto, life, etc. -- along with health insurance companies.

Pelosi did better with the segments of the health care system that support the Democrats' health care overhaul, pulling in $321,000 in the last three years from doctors and nurses, for example.

You see what Thrush did?

With a misleading title, Thrush implied the idea that Pelosi is an absolute hypocrite in calling out the for-profit, uncaring insurance industry health lobbyists, making the easily swayed to believe that Pelosi is getting campaign money from the same ones she called out today.

It is typical dishonesty from Hackio and Thrush, so that is not a surprise at all. But it is just another sad example of a site that loves to cater to right-wing talking points and GOP ass kissing with any chance it gets.

They will do that because they have the inside access to lie for the status quo in Washington, like the trash they are.