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A marketing effort, protesting Governor Paterson's proposed health care cuts, from Greater New York Hospital Association and health care union 1199 is blasted as a "low blow" by the NY Post and gets a NY Times editorial. Referring to how a wheelchair-bound blind man asks the governor, "Why are you doing this to me?" in a TV ad, the Times writes, "A better question should go to the health unions and hospitals paying for these ads. Mainly, why are you doing this — again? Frightening citizens and trying to intimidate officials working to make sense of health care spending and balance the state budget fairly?" State Department of Health Commissioner Richard Daines wasn't amused by the ads, "There's a passage in Jeremiah that says something like, 'Foolish people who even having eyes do not see.' I think we're really concerned about people who have the eyes to see the problem and aren't choosing to see them."

State Health Commissioner Richard Daines has taken to YouTube to educate New Yorkers on the virtues of Governor Paterson's proposed "obesity tax," which would add an 18-percent tax on non-diet soda and other sugary drinks containing less than 70 percent real fruit juice. Sure, the video's no Ottomoman-Humping Gangbang, but we are in a recession, so we'll excuse the lackluster production values.