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Politico reports that the Service Employees International Union has asked both CNN and Fox News to pull health care ads by Conservatives for Patient’s Rights.

The union has also started an e-mail campaign targeting Fox to “stop the swift-boating of health care.”

The cease-and-desist letter ratchets up a friction between progressive groups supporting President Barack Obama’s health care reform effort and Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, an opposition organization led by Florida health care entrepreneur Rick Scott.

The 60-second ad, which began running this week, claims Obama wants to drastically increase government control of health care and features critical remarks from physicians from Britain and Canada about their country’s nationalized health systems. A spokeswoman for Conservatives for Patients’ Rights said the ads are “fully documented.”

But the SEIU letter said the ad should be pulled for overstating the power of a newly established federal board on comparative effectiveness research and misrepresenting the views of the two featured physicians.

“This advertisement is false, deceitful and a distortion,” the letter states.

Didn’t the SEIU run an $2.1 million ad attacking John McCain during the presidential race quoting him as saying “I know a lot less about economics… I still need to be educated” when in fact John McCain candidly admitted in a WSJ interview?

“I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.”

Wait.. I guess SEIU does know something about falsehood, deceit, and distortion.