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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

The creepy Koch brothers are bringing back "creepy Uncle Sam"

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Koch Brothers Back 'Creepy Carenival' Where Clowns Deter Millenials From Obamacare
By Chloe Sorvino, July 22, 2014

Creepy Uncle Sam is back. This time, he’s bringing you to a “Creepy Carenival” – an anti-Obamacare spectacle backed by the billionaire Koch brothers where smirking clowns choose patients’ surgeries by throwing knives at a revolving wheel, insurance premiums explode and a “Dropped Coverage” game dunks millenials into a “High-Risk Pool.”

The carnival, featuring carnies, jugglers and a “Creepy Hospital,” hits the National Mall on Wednesday and will tour the nation this fall. Generation Opportunity, the Koch-funded organization putting on the show, hopes it will sway 20-somethings against signing up for health insurance through the government’s exchanges, rendering the system ineffective.

Media stunt? Yes. The group promises “to expose Obamacare for the freak show that it really is.”

“It’s no secret that Obamacare hasn’t lived up to the hype: All across the country premiums have spiked, millions have lost their insurance and their doctors, and, what’s worse, we’re continually being sold a bundle of lies about how great Obamacare has been for our generation!” the invitation on Eventbrite reads.

Here’s a preview of the spectacle, via a video released by the group on Tuesday.


“It’s a seemingly exciting event where all the games are rigged against young people with a little bit of creepiness,” Evan Feinberg, the president of Generation Opportunity, explained to Buzzfeed. “The ultimate goal is to educate and mobilize young Americans to kick the Obamacare disaster out of their towns.” Feinberg did not return immediate request from FORBES for comment.

Creepy Uncle Sam first made his video debut last year when the group unveiled an ad in which he gave a college-age woman a gynecological exam, warning millenials to not “let the government play doctor.”

The billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, worth a combined $82.4 billion based on FORBES’ estimated value of private conglomerate Koch Industries, have made headlines during recent election cycles for pouring millions of dollars into political campaigns and attack ads through conservative organizations. Ardent libertarians, they’ve reportedly committed to pumping about $15 million into this fall’s midterm elections, with an overall goal of giving about $300 million.
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