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What did the press know and when did they know it?
TheVirginian ^ | 11/18/2014 | Moneyrunner

Posted on 11/18/2014 7:05:54 PM PST by moneyrunner

The reaction of the MSM to the Gruber tapes is revealing. Today’s article by Chris Cillizza tries to misdirect the issue into a personality conflict between Gruber and Conservatives who he thinks are the object of Gruber’s charge that the American people are stupid. His article, about Gruber as catnip for conservatives tries to make the story about Conservative pique, not the fact that Gruber did something that you are never supposed to do when you pull a sting: expose the sting. A good sting never ends, but Gruber ended the ObamaCare sting. So the press, after hoping it would simply die because of lack of oxygen, is desperately trying to change the subject.

But Cilliza is wrong, not just on the focus, but also on the issue of who Gruber classified as stupid. Conservatives were always oppose to ObamaCare. And not just conservatives. ObamaCare passed without a single Republican vote. The lies and deception described by Gruber fooled only Liberals. Liberals who were fed the story the Obama administration was feeding to its media accomplices. No tax, lower cost, better coverage, no changes if you were happy.

But were Liberals in the media really fooled, or were they simply promoting the Obama/Gruber/Democrat lies because they were being Good Germans? I mean, really. What non-comatose human being believes that you can insure 30 million more people, provide more services, cover pre-existing conditions, and reduce the cost to the average family by $2500? Melissa Francis tells of being called on the carpetat CNBC for her criticism of ObamaCare’s math and told that she was “disrespecting the office of the President.”

I believe that the average reporter and editor is functionally innumerate, but that doesn’t pass the smell test. Like Good Germans, the press corps knew, but didn’t want to know.

So now one of the architects of the conspiracy couldn’t keep his mouth shut. And the lies and deception has been uncovered, not by the complicit press that does not want to know what was really going on, but by a guy who lost his health insurance policy thanks to ObamaCare and spent hours searching the internet. Because everything that you say in public gets recorded. And citizen journalist are looking where the Good Germans of the press don’t want you to go.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: california; cnbc; demagogicparty; jonathangruber; melissafrancis; memebuilding; nancypelosi; obamacare; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; press
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1 posted on 11/18/2014 7:05:54 PM PST by moneyrunner
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To: moneyrunner

The MSM has been liberal for a long time, but they became fully incorporated into the regime in 2008. This may backfire a bit, though, as the regime continues to decline with popularity approaching that of dog turds by 2016.


2 posted on 11/18/2014 7:11:23 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: moneyrunner
The dinosaur media has no conscience. they have need of the truth, only their agenda. The definition of a liberal: someone who would never let the truth get in the way of their agenda.
3 posted on 11/18/2014 7:15:18 PM PST by Fungi
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To: moneyrunner

Looks like a couple minor edits are in order if you can jump in and take care of it. This is BINGO, though. Good little lemmings indeed.


4 posted on 11/18/2014 7:15:47 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: moneyrunner

It was the Rat base the media was lying to because conservativew sweren’t fooled.


5 posted on 11/18/2014 7:17:46 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: moneyrunner
"Grubertopia: a far away mythical land where Obamacare actually works."

Pictured below is what the brain of the GruberCare voters in Congress looks like when examined.


6 posted on 11/18/2014 7:21:57 PM PST by Grampa Dave (The Democrats, who run America are too old, too rich, and too very/very white elitist losers!.)
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To: moneyrunner

Nobody has brought it up that Grubergate did not surface until after the wave election. How’s that for timing?


7 posted on 11/18/2014 7:21:59 PM PST by Calusa (Were going to have that person arrested.....that did the video, said Hillary Clinton.)
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To: Fungi

You have the right to be stupid and lazy with the truth, says Kerry.

Good Germans is a good term, because they too claimed conveniently they did not know about it.


8 posted on 11/18/2014 7:24:44 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Grampa Dave

brain of emotional excuses to pretend to do work.


9 posted on 11/18/2014 7:25:29 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: nascarnation

The MSM print media was asking for a bailout in 2008.

I suspect they got one from the Left and have been bought off ever since.


10 posted on 11/18/2014 7:26:29 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: lavaroise

There was a thread a few nights ago about Dachauans suiciding themselves (5000) when the Allies landed due not to fear of being killed, but because of their consciences.


11 posted on 11/18/2014 7:27:26 PM PST by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: moneyrunner

Cilliza is now another one of the Post’s “disinformation” writers eventhough he writes in the societal/entertainment “Style” section.

He joins the other two leftist misdirectionist, smear artists, Dana Millbank and E. J. Dionne.

Their collective jobs are to misdirect, lie, coverup, smear, counterattack the truth, and to totally confuse the reader as to the truth.

Glad to see that Chincilla is being called out by a real newspaper.


12 posted on 11/18/2014 7:29:40 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: moneyrunner

The “press” is just like Barry. They get their news from the FOX New Channel.


13 posted on 11/18/2014 7:31:46 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Provisional ballots'. When legal votes just aren't getting the job done. - The DemocRATS.)
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To: moneyrunner

My paper, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, had an article about how Gruber was just a person suggesting ideas to the Dims, one of many such people. Article was by Karen Tumulty in the Washing Compost.


14 posted on 11/18/2014 7:31:51 PM PST by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Grampa Dave

With all the money this MIT (Marxist Institute of Tyranny) prof has made by lying for Comrade Obama, he should change his name to:

Schickelgruber or
Moneygrubber

He’s pajamaboy with a degree in lying.


15 posted on 11/18/2014 7:32:34 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: lavaroise
Good Germans is a good term . . .

Good Nazis would be better, except it is overused. I say as much because many Germans, e.g. Dietrich Bonheoffer were appalled and gave their lives while standing up for the truth.

16 posted on 11/18/2014 7:36:59 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: Rembrandt

“My paper, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, had an article about how Gruber was just a person suggesting ideas to the Dims, one of many such people. Article was by Karen Tumulty in the Washing Compost.”

If he was just a person “suggesting ideas” to the Dims, why was he paid $5 million by the government?

If he was only one of “many such people”, and Gruber alone made $5 million, what did the taxpayers pay for all of these ideas?


18 posted on 11/18/2014 7:38:11 PM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: moneyrunner

Gruber’s Goobers.


19 posted on 11/18/2014 8:00:25 PM PST by MNnice
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To: moneyrunner

Good article.


20 posted on 11/18/2014 8:41:04 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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