Hot Air TV: Jason Mattera takes on the AARP
posted at 11:41 am on December 18, 2009 by Michelle
In January, I dubbed the porkulus bill the “Generational Theft Act of 2009.” Generational theft has been the leitmotif of the Obama administration throughout the entire year. We rang in the new year with it and the White House and Democratic majority want to end the year with it by ramming through a government health care plan that would cost at least $4 trillion and likely top $10 trillion when all is spent and done.
YAF/Hot Air TV correspondent Jason Mattera is back to speak generational truth to entitlement-expanding power. He presents AARP vice president Nancy Leamond with an invoice for generational theft and takes on the powerful senior lobby’s rank hypocrisy when it comes to pre-existing conditions (AARP’s main policy, Medigap, actually imposes long waiting periods on seniors who have pre-existing conditions, even though AARP reps, like liberals in general, decry the discrimination of folks with pre-existing conditions). Jason also confronts AARP on how ObamaCare will fatten their own wallets. Medigap, their $400 million cash cow, is left untouched by ObamaCare, while all other insurance providers are subjected to tighter regulation.
Talk about fat cats.
They can run to the nearest taxi, but they can’t hide.
(Thanks to camerawoman Monique Stuart. You can watch the full, unedited video at YAF.)
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This is AWESOME!!!!
VegasRick on December 18, 2009 at 11:43 AM
BUSTED. Good work, Jason.
Fletch54 on December 18, 2009 at 11:46 AM
That is WICKED KEWL!!!!!!
christene on December 18, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Big Cajones.
Liberals exploiting seasoned citizens for their own profit while doing it in the name of concern.
Indefensible and disgusting.
daesleeper on December 18, 2009 at 11:50 AM
“That’s a big invoice”
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!
VegasRick on December 18, 2009 at 11:51 AM
This is funny. They can’t get her away from him fast enough.
Brat4life on December 18, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Jason is amazing!
LASue on December 18, 2009 at 11:54 AM
“Speaking truth to power” is only cool when the Republicans are in office.
Cicero43 on December 18, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Other than the title of the video being misspelled (“endoresed”), awesome!
Abby Adams on December 18, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Hey Michelle…
Glad to have you back! (Not that you ever left)
Seven Percent Solution on December 18, 2009 at 12:06 PM
He is BRUTAL interviewing Leamond.
Would that all journalists could be that tough and fair.
Abby Adams on December 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM
This guy is awesome!
Make him the new Press Sec when Palin wins in 2012.
It’d be awesome!
Yakko77 on December 18, 2009 at 12:10 PM
AARP offers their own Medicare Advantage program which is underwritten by United Healthcare also. The Dems are proposing to cut the Medicare Advantage funding out of any health legislation leaving all of the other private insurance companies which offer a similar plan out in the cold. According to what I have seen and read AARP would be excluded from this mandate.
AARP is in a position to profit in numerous ways from the Dems plans. I vowed never to join them when eligible after they worked to defeat the Social Security reform that President Bush proposed, that was no where as sweeping or intrusive as this legislation is and really offered younger Americans a choice.
Just A Grunt on December 18, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Pure awesomeness.
justltl on December 18, 2009 at 12:11 PM
WOW! GREAT, GREAT idea! I think we should all send an Invoice for Generational Theft to the Democrat leadership! Thanks for posting, I’m turning 50 soon and just recieved something from AARP; haven’t yet opened.
Oh my! Looks like Obama likes special interest groups after all. He lied. Again and again he lies.
TN Mom on December 18, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Dude, Jason Mattera sounds like Christopher Walken.
“You pull in like 400 million dahlahs” [/walken]
Well done!
spmat on December 18, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Mattera not only nailed AARP, he used a nail gun.
darwin on December 18, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Sent this to people I know who are AARP members…
Sure they’ll be impressed with Nancy Leamond’s knowledge of AARP’s inter workings and the pittance of a salary she earns.
WhoU4 on December 18, 2009 at 12:21 PM
This was awesome!
cubachi on December 18, 2009 at 12:25 PM
MM: GIVE MATTERA A RAISE!!!
splatshot on December 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Thanks for the message BOSS. This is so necessary to expose these people of their outright agendas and the perceived corruption, i.e. collusion with our “government” and our “representatives”.
Rovin on December 18, 2009 at 12:48 PM
P.S. THIS NEEDS TO GO VIRAL!!!!!
Link it! Send it! Twitter it! Facebook it!
Rovin on December 18, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Friends: When you receive an invitation from AARP to join, remove your name from the return slip and write “no way you thieves” or something similar on the slip. Then enclose the slip into the post paid envelope and return it to AARP at their expense.
stefano1 on December 18, 2009 at 12:53 PM
It is fun to see a Michelle post over here on HA! Very good post, boss.
chaswv on December 18, 2009 at 12:53 PM
HuffPost is saying that the GOP’s filibuster has been broken because of war funding.
Spathi on December 18, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Every time I get an enrollment card from them I write f-you across it and fill the reply envelope with sinkers so it weighs about 9lbs.
owlpellets on December 18, 2009 at 1:07 PM
Going on studies done by ABC, she better hail her own cab to get away from Mattera!
LadinPlaid on December 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Great idea.
Isn’t it true that if those postage paid envelopes don’t get used, the organization isn’t charged for the postage?
If so this would be a great way to nickel & dime them to death.
Badger40 on December 18, 2009 at 1:47 PM
Fantastic
I just had an idea, and is giving to anyone who wants to produce it…a short Bugs Life, with Glenn Beck as Flik, Palin as princess Atta, Hopper as Obama, Molt as Joe Biden, Nancy as the crazy grasshopper, … not sure on the other characters
Conservative Voice on December 18, 2009 at 2:55 PM
We need a balanced budget amendment. Then when these clowns want to pass a $10 trillion dollar monstrosity like ObamaCare, let them figure out a way to come up with the money to pay for it NOW. And not by borrowing it or printing more. Be upfront with the American people: Tell them you’re going to raise their taxes. Go ahead, lefty asshats: I dare you. Fully fund your POS healthcare bill from the get go. Raise my taxes, you punks! See what happens then.
NoLeftTurn on December 18, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Thank you Jason.. Keep up the good work!
RobertCSampson on December 18, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Well done Jason, Monique and Hot Air! Very well done.
I returned one of AARP’s solicitations with a message similar to Laurie’s. A few weeks later I received a post card thanking me for contacting the AARP! The next day a large envelope showed up with a temporary membership card. I again wrote a nice message on it with a Sharpie and stuffed it all into their pre-paid return envelope. I haven’t heard from them recently but will continue return their solicitations using their pre-paid envelopes, they obviously can afford the postage!
Zorro on December 18, 2009 at 6:24 PM
I have always liked what Walter Williams finally did when the many AARP solicitations finally drove him crazy. He wrote across the application payment form (paraphrase): “I find your solicitations appeal to my prurient interests, and ask to be removed from your mailing lists.” It worked. He never got another. I would probably do the same if I got the solicitations more than once or twice a year. But, then, I like the fact that they waste their money on me. What to do, what to do?
sondiehl on December 18, 2009 at 7:19 PM
I am sending this to as many as possible. Jason does excellent work.
I am still laughing at the healthcare video he did over the summer where he posed as pro-Obamacare and asked Patch Adams if there were any hot women in the commune. That is a classic!
Seriously, he should be recognized for his great work on this one, exposing the lies of AARP. I worked with Medicare beneficiaries as a volunteer counselor and I am sickened by those who would cut Medicare, especially Medicare Advantage.
margategop517 on December 19, 2009 at 12:17 AM
It never ceases to amaze me that the Left can be ridiculous in their legislative actions, but when faced with those with an opposing viewpoint they always find a cab (or other excuse) to avoid answering responsible questions.
Great work Jason. I am sure a copy of this sent to Ms. Leamond and AARP will a cherished Christmas gift.
I am a senior 62) and AARP has been trying to sell me on giving them money to continue their cause(s) supposedly in my name, since my 50th birthday.
Maybe their real goal is to thin the heard by lowering the retirement age to 50, making room for the younger generation in the job market, and lowering health care costs. Because after retirement (meant as not being able to actually work for a company or other organization) the typical life expectancy is five years(source actuarial tables of retired military members).
MSGTAS on December 19, 2009 at 10:20 AM
She keeps looking back at her aide. She doesn’t know jack—!
jbh45 on December 19, 2009 at 10:43 AM
AARP = evil
Pure evil…
Khun Joe on December 19, 2009 at 8:05 PM
The reader was nicer than I was… I sent them 2 bricks in a box with the return reply envelope taped to it!
Jonas Parker on December 20, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Fuc*ing crooks.
Jaibones on December 20, 2009 at 11:46 PM