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.
The press is lazy and leftist. There is not much journalism that actually happens. Simply report what the task masters decide they wish to share with us
Well, these were “bad Germans” in the eyes of Hitler, I suppose.
ie. there is no “bad democrat” in the media apparently.
The mainstream media never seems to pay a price for anything, but in this case, I believe they will.
My mother and brother are both leftists, and I caught them watching Fox News the other day. They always watched mainstream media before. My conclusion is that they have realized that there’s so much to hide, that you really can’t become informed getting your news from the leftist media.
The mainstream media has never cared about their credibility, but they have cherished their relevance. By being complicit in selling us the bill of goods that is Obamacare, they may lose even their relevance.
> ...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.”
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