Good news: Time for another celebrity ObamaCare ad
posted at 5:34 pm on October 21, 2009 by Allahpundit
I don’t know, actually. Does Heather Graham still qualify as a celebrity? We’re a long, long way from “Austin Powers”, my friends. Regardless, this spot and its hosannas to competition — from MoveOn, no less — cry out for parody even more than that Will Ferrell abomination did. Keep the track-meet motif and simply have Public Option pull out a tire iron and kneecap the other racers mid-stride, just like all those nice Democrats who’ve been caught on tape burbling about single-payer would like. Too simple? No problem: Have Public Option’s coach, Individual Mandate, leap in from the sidelines and wield the tire iron instead. Too wonky for SNL, admittedly, but just right for the ‘Net.
CNN has support for the public option now at 61 percent, incidentally. Gallup? 50/46, within the margin of error. How lucky do you feel about those midterms?
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Wasn’t she in an Austin Powers movie?
pilamaye on October 21, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Well when you don’t have a job, the public option equals free health care.
Cindy Munford on October 21, 2009 at 5:36 PM
“Competition is an American as Apple Pie,” but floating a program you can’t pay for in order to create the illusion of a competitive advantage is not — it’s bad, it won’t work, and Heather Graham is barely a has-been.
D2Boston on October 21, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Who is Heather Graham? The ad certainly did nothing to change my mind.
bopbottle on October 21, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Insert obligatory “I have no idea who this is” comment.
brak on October 21, 2009 at 5:38 PM
just another no-talent whore pushing shit she knows nothing about.
gsherin on October 21, 2009 at 5:39 PM
What’s with the money shot? Eww.
ronsfi on October 21, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Honestly, I like the ad. I’m bad. Damn it. I’m a sucker for girls. Someone respond to this ASAP. She’s purdy. <3
El_Terrible on October 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM
The Public Option racer should weigh 400 pounds and having his competition running in government-supplied lead suits.
michaelo on October 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Anybody with half a brain knows that any public option KILLS competition. Hollywood morons…
Danzo on October 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM
An ad in which Heather Graham reprises her role as “Rollergirl” in Boogie Nights.
Realist on October 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM
If those numbers accurately reflected the voter’s opinion, ObamaCare would be law by now. It’s not so they don’t. Also, proponents of this sure are pushing hard for issue that supposedly up by a 10 point margin.
volnation on October 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Why don’t they use a fat, unionized, corrupt bureaucrat to represent the public option? That would be more realistic. Plus, the fat bureaucrat could stab the insurance companies when they run by to signify their deaths.
Oh yeah … Heather who? Has she been on any reality shows lately?
darwin on October 21, 2009 at 5:41 PM
“Hi I’m Heather Graham and I usually play a dizzy slut in movies but I took extension classes at UCLA and studied English for two years so you can trust me Public option is the way to go to promote competition in health care.”
LincolntheHun on October 21, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Wait, isn’t that the voiceover guy from Ken Burns’ National Parks documentary?
Patrick Ishmael on October 21, 2009 at 5:41 PM
She was pretty hot 30 years ago in the first Austin Powers movie.
p0s3r on October 21, 2009 at 5:41 PM
I’d buy anything from rollergirl.
BOING!
lorien1973 on October 21, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Has no one asked these morons how there will be a competition with only one team playing?
jimmy2shoes on October 21, 2009 at 5:41 PM
I have a hard time taking any woman seriously if I’ve seen her naked.
(I suppose I wouldn’t be surprised if the feeling was mutual.)
Enrique on October 21, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Nice suggestions AP!!! (my complement quota is full for the week)
How about some hurdles for the insurance company execs and none for the public option.
WashJeff on October 21, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Ahhh… Lies that are easy on the eyes.
bigskinny on October 21, 2009 at 5:42 PM
She did James Woods AND Adam Ant you sure you want to eat off that plate?
LincolntheHun on October 21, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Heather Graham will not be covered by the public option.
Ronnie on October 21, 2009 at 5:42 PM
She was in a few tolerable movies: License to Drive, From Hell, Austin Powers, etc. Not sure why they used her here though.
volnation on October 21, 2009 at 5:42 PM
So… I’m thinking a remake of an ad, with the public option as the fat lady, who shoots up the competition with a gun. The fat lady kills off all the competition, but gets tired halfway through the race and doesn’t finish the race [nobody wins].
El_Terrible on October 21, 2009 at 5:42 PM
skimpier outfit, more slo-mo from behind, thanks.
John the Libertarian on October 21, 2009 at 5:43 PM
OT:
AP check out the new RAS FL poll on Rubio.
hehe
artist on October 21, 2009 at 5:43 PM
I think Graham represents Obama’s health care policies well in this video.
It appears to me she was losing the race by the end of the clip.
The same loser this bill is going to be when all the “added” costs that were stripped out for the CBO spin are added in.
The Chamber of Commerce ad was definitely better with the “300 billion in new taxes” resonating strongly throughout the clip.
Baxter Greene on October 21, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Until she undergoes breast reduction surgery she still qualifies.
Hollywood has so marginalized itself that nobody pays them any attention. They are preaching to one another. And that makes me happy.
edgehead on October 21, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Short video parody of celebrity PSA ads: http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/09/celebrities-required-to-release-new.html
Mervis Winter on October 21, 2009 at 5:43 PM
I wonder why they disabled comments for this
video at youtube…not really.
cozmo on October 21, 2009 at 5:43 PM
According to imdb.com, she’ll still working. She was in “The Hangover”, but the last thing I actually recognized her in was a recurring role on Scrubs.
So weird to see Dems paying lip service to competition though.
Esthier on October 21, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Where are they getting this “70% want a public option” crap? It’s the public option that is killing any reform at all.
indy8 on October 21, 2009 at 5:44 PM
She was the girl one of the guys married while drunk in the Hangover. She was a hooker or stripper (I forget) and had a child.
lorien1973 on October 21, 2009 at 5:45 PM
I’m not changing my mind until I know where Amber Waves, Dirk Diggler, and Chest Rockwell stand on this.
stldave on October 21, 2009 at 5:45 PM
lorien1973 on October 21, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Again…
“She did James Woods AND Adam Ant you sure you want to eat off that plate?”
LincolntheHun on October 21, 2009 at 5:45 PM
So she has been typecasts as a mindless sex object…not there is anything wrong with that.
WashJeff on October 21, 2009 at 5:46 PM
If she was topless, I’d switch sides.
Cicero43 on October 21, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Get a grip! She’s says nothing in the ad, and if someone were to pay you 10g to run in another ad supporting the public option, you’d be a fool not to do it.
Norman Blizter on October 21, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Maybe someone should hire Tonya Harding (I don’t think she would charge much these days) to do a video endorsing the “Public Option”. She could speak, and act out, in it’s support.
MB4 on October 21, 2009 at 5:47 PM
So she was Adam Ant’s Something Girl.
WashJeff on October 21, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Be strong brother be strong.
Do not let the boobies sway you.
LincolntheHun on October 21, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Depends, will the public option cover STDs? j/k
El_Terrible on October 21, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Yeah, they only do it when the goal is really killing competition.
They’re liars all. The ditz in the ad should be pitied for her ignorance.
darwin on October 21, 2009 at 5:48 PM
FYI: Being a military wife my family is already on the “government health care system”. I have never badmouth TriCare Prime at anytime but I would like to share a quick story. I called the base clinic to get an appointment for my son yesterday. I was told that we were “booted” out of the clinic due to the fact that we live 30 minutes from the base. No notice or anything. I was also told that they could not tell me who we were referred to. So I had to call the 800# for TriCare and sit on hold for 2 hours to find out who they refered us to. Upon finding out that info I called the doctor and was promptly told that he was not accepting anymore TriCare patients. So, we had to drive down to the base and go to the TriCare office and “opt out” of the “booted” process to be seen by a base doctor. It was an inconvenience but somewhat easy to do. But, keep in mind TriCare doesn’t insure all 300+ million people. Just something for all to look forward to.
milwife88 on October 21, 2009 at 5:49 PM
For as fit as she is, those fat guys next to her were about to pass her slow butt.
portlandon on October 21, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Option Powers, National Plan of Mystery
Christien on October 21, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Why ain’t Michael Moore the government entry? Yo, Mike…Mike?
Didn’t the government limit competition in the first place?
And does Medicare look like that sprinting woman?
If Mike couldn’t make it, I thought it was going to bring up a sputtering go cart powered by $50 bills to race those porky people.
And I don’t even like the present system..
IlikedAUH2O on October 21, 2009 at 5:50 PM
The gov’t should be the referee who uses the gun to shoot everyone in the head.
John the Libertarian on October 21, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Competition? From government? Really? Are people that dumb?
echosyst on October 21, 2009 at 5:51 PM
This is about the dumbest crap I’ve seen lately. Obama is still pleading to his parasitic constituents. Oh well, Hitler had the “Peoples car” and Obama has the “Public Option”
rplat on October 21, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Tonya Harding, wearing a “Public Option” logo could go around kneecapping the other contestants with “Blue Cross”, “Kaiser”, “ODS”, etc. logos and then when they were all on the ground she could force feed grandma some pills and send her home.
MB4 on October 21, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Celebrities think they are some kind of event–always looking for a place to ‘happen’. They claim to hate paparazzi but can’t find worth without them. They’ll do anything to get noticed but, when things for them fail, they’ll spew filthy invective–like Jennifer Aniston once said, “F**k Bush!”
Right…
If some celeb tells me the sky is blue, I’ll call MSNBC for a fact check.
Liam on October 21, 2009 at 5:52 PM
But I thought that UPS and FedEx were the ones doing ok, and it was the Post Office that had problems.
So, call your congressman and tell him you want a Postal Option for health care.
Trusser13 on October 21, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Do you read HA comment threads? Oh yeah they can be!
WashJeff on October 21, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Can’t help myself. We’ve come a long way.
John the Libertarian on October 21, 2009 at 5:54 PM
I hardly recognized Ms. Graham with her clothes on.
LASue on October 21, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Not sure how many people saw The Hangover because she was in it, but it is the highest grossing comedy of the year.
YYZ on October 21, 2009 at 5:54 PM
This ad is wrong on so many levels. I think even liberals that see it have got to be sympathetically embarrassed for the writers.
joe_doufu on October 21, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Who is she?
AnninCA on October 21, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Actually, Heather Graham is famous for bearing her breasts in every single movie she shot, not only Boogie Nights. (Yes, she did it in Hangover as well, including raunchy stills in the credits roll.)
Come to think of it, that’s precisely the anticipation the makers of the ad were trying to create with her inclusion.
When all else fails, try sex.
Which incidentally reveals a great deal about the esteem the Obama administration holds for the average tv consumer.
Niko on October 21, 2009 at 5:58 PM
I love the fact that they use rollergirl in that ad.
deepinthought on October 21, 2009 at 5:58 PM
I vote for having the government entrant have a JATO pack strapped to the back of his jersey to indicate the intense power government dollars would bring to the competition. That the competition is unequal would be indicated by having all the other runners be healthy, and the government runner be someone unhealthy — as someone noted above, possibly Mr. Moore. The Government chides all the others for their stupid uniforms and lack of jet power.
At the start of the race (make it a 400 meter), all the runners take off down the track and as they all reach the first curve,the wimp, standing calmly at the starting line, pulls the lanyard on the JATO. The jato unit travels in a straight line right off the track and zooms up into the air, with the attached Government guy screaming madly. The other runners calmly continue around the track and, just before the finish line, the jato unit (which has zoomed into the air) finishes its plummit to the earth (government guy screaming grows louder as jato approaches) and completely destroys all the contestants (as well as the finish line). A long dwell on the completely demolished landscape, with the subtext “Government Healthcare in America circa 2011″.
unclesmrgol on October 21, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Another nobody Hollywood puts up in limited circles. Basically, she’s a set of t*ts in a limited arena.
Liam on October 21, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Heather Graham = Useful Idiot
flyfisher on October 21, 2009 at 6:01 PM
The history of public options is a history of failure. Why “stay the course” with failed policies of the past?
JohnJ on October 21, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Is that Bob Beckel?
PappaMac on October 21, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Thanks. I really couldn’t place her and was just going off of imdb.
I’m fairly certain she was just a stripper, or at least that’s where they met her.
Esthier on October 21, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Heather Graham is a skank. And the funny part is that actually lost to the two fat guys, anyway – even with that HUGE head start. What a joke.
progressoverpeace on October 21, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Because the vast right-wing conspiracy has stopped the Enemy Party from getting it right the first time. Now they need years to ‘fix’ it.
Liam on October 21, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Bowfinger.
With Steve Martin.
albill on October 21, 2009 at 6:07 PM
I didn’t recognize her with her clothes on.
She needs to aim low at first, like those Alar hags from back in the day.
jjshaka on October 21, 2009 at 6:07 PM
And Peter Coyote made the sh!tlist for narrating that propaganda-fest. What a turd.
progressoverpeace on October 21, 2009 at 6:07 PM
I sincerely doubt many saw it because of her. The previews almost entirely focused on the men.
Esthier on October 21, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Dear LincolntheHun,
I completely understand your point. However the end result still looks good. Makeup, editing, and exercise can cover a lot.
A final shallow jab back would be… “It’s not like we want her mind anyways”
bigskinny on October 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Though the premise of this ad — that the public option provides healthy competition — is completely untrue, still the ad is very effective and compelling from a visual and even a logical standpoint. Whether Heather Graham is an A-list, B-list or Z-list celebrity is not the point. It is what she does and how she appears, not who she is, that makes the point in this ad. That Will Ferrell thing was stupid and arrogant, like most liberal crap. This, however is much more powerful, and needs to be responded to in kind rather than smugly laughed at. For-profit insurance companies serve a very useful purpose and don’t deserve to be demonized. However, because of the realities of the current health care system, they represent an easy target, as this ad clearly demonstrates.
texasentrepreneur on October 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Alright, alright, alright… celebrity political endorsers are idiots, Susan Sarandon & Sean Penn, Barbara Streisand, elbows and @$$holes, culture of celebrity… whatever.
I now support the Public Option because Heather Graham his hotter than any girl I’ve seen oppose the Public Option. I don’t have the time to read all the fine print and grasp the actual ideas or principles **yawn – MOM, I NEED SOME MORE CHIPS!!** but Heather Graham is hot, and that’s enough for me.
That’s why America is the greatest country in the world. I rest my case.
/sarc
realityunwound on October 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM
This just further illustrates that these knuckleheads are immune to facts, logic and common sense. It’s a waste of time trying to convince them of anything. They’re dumber than a box of rocks.
RadClown on October 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Best part about that ad: It looks like all the private insurance companies are passing the public option, even though it had a head start.
BadgerHawk on October 21, 2009 at 6:11 PM
When has any gubment run anything been lean and mean?/rhetorical
RalphyBoy on October 21, 2009 at 6:13 PM
They should have opted for Heather Mills.
Her wooden leg is a fine demonstration of Great Britain’s government health care system (although with her cool $40M [US] from Paul, she can probably afford a nice high-tech prosthesis made in the USA).
pain train on October 21, 2009 at 6:13 PM
The only accomplishments most celebs after grab are for themselves. Those with true successes remain quiet: Tom Selleck, John Voight, Charlton Heston, Jennifer Love Hewitt, et. al.
Those people succeed without throwing their boobs or genitals in public to get noticed.They get noticed by their accomplishments, not by how they come out for The Won.
Liam on October 21, 2009 at 6:14 PM
You’re right. Heather Graham is a nasty skank, just like the government, and she can’t win a 100 neter dash against fat, out-of-shape people that she had a 20 meter head start on. It is logically accurate in all of that.
As to “visually” effective … LOL.
Interesting how the non-profit Blue Cross serves 1/3 of Americans, right now, but the White House is screaming about how non-profits are what’s needed. This is a sad joke.
progressoverpeace on October 21, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Yes, Peter Coyote – former SF Bay Area radical,
now just another Hollywood radical.
Although, Heather is still hot.
fred5678 on October 21, 2009 at 6:14 PM
She should have been on roller skates.
Remember she was Rollergirl in “Boogie Nights”?
Ahh….nevermind.
panzerkardinal on October 21, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Just think, peasants. When the Public “Option” is the only option, you might find yourself in a queue at your local clinic with your fave celeb.
Yes indeed, you could even share the same government-assigned doctor. If I know anything about Hollywood stars (and I don’t), it’s that they love mixing with the Great Unwashed.
At the very least the Public “Option” will curtail those same doctors hacking off your feet for fun (and evil profit!)
mudskipper on October 21, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Well at least we get to put a face to some of the Stimulus Funds!
heshtesh on October 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Not allowing her to speak was probably a very bright thing to do.
kingsjester on October 21, 2009 at 6:19 PM
That fat Asian guy is the best with the champagne money shot.
Man, the take-offs on this vid are gonna be awesome.
SNL short in the future? Hmm. . .
RedNewEnglander on October 21, 2009 at 6:19 PM
She has the look of E.T. about her.
bloggless on October 21, 2009 at 6:20 PM
I say let’em pass single payer. Then we all refuse to pay. What, they’re gonna throw us all in jail? Who’s gonna work, democrats?
noblejones on October 21, 2009 at 6:21 PM
True that playa!
PappaMac on October 21, 2009 at 6:23 PM
The response ad is to show lean mean insurance companies restrained with a ball and chain trying to compete with a fat bloated postal worker.
DFCtomm on October 21, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Full Disclosure: I clicked in just to watch Graham run a round a bit.. Apologize in advance.
saus on October 21, 2009 at 6:25 PM
I will reiterate:
who the H*ll is this person? And why should I care?
mjk on October 21, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I’m not going to watch…but I gotta know….
Where the ‘Girls’ in action?
PappaMac on October 21, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Until you said “James Woods”, yes!
Would someone care to explain what exactly is competitive about the government regulating the insurance industry and providing a public option at the same time? Add to that the government will be funding the public option by taxing health insurance.
jdkchem on October 21, 2009 at 6:29 PM
She is a has-been actress who’s claim to fame is that she plays a spy having sex with Fat Bastard in that nasty Austin Powers movie. She does it for her job. She plays a spy who must have sex with a disgusting, obese, smelly, slobbering freak in order to get information or something. Great example for young girls and boys all over the world. But hey, that’s what Hollywood thinks of our kids. plus, she looks like E.T.
bloggless on October 21, 2009 at 6:32 PM
I have seen very few ads, on either side, in my media market.
These stories are rather silly. Where is this being shown, anyway?
AnninCA on October 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM
There is apparently no end to the delusions of Hollywood. How stupid would have to be for this to influence your opinion?
pgrossjr on October 21, 2009 at 6:35 PM
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