‘Misleading’ Andy Griffith Ads Cost Taxpayers $3 Million, Gov’t Documents Show

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(CNSNews.com) – The federal government spent $3.1 million on TV ads in which actor Andy Griffith touts the new health care law, but a non-partisan watchdog group says those ads are misleading.

Griffith, who played the starring role of a small town sheriff on the Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s and later portrayed an attorney on the 1980s program Matlock, appeared in three ads paid for by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to government documents obtained by the conservative public interest group Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act.

The first ad, entitled “1965,” featured Griffith saying, “This year, as always, we’ll have our guaranteed benefits. And with the new health care law, more good things are coming.”

But the non-partisan FactCheck.org says some 10 million Medicare Advantage recipients will see their benefits cut by about $43 a month.