Posted on 10/22/2013 5:50:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Chuck Todd, with NBC, did what few reporters seem to do in the White House Press Corp when he injected a moment of honest journalism into the Obama-groupie press corps. Asking Jay Carney a tough question is like playing a frame of “the Charleston” for Fred Astaire: Carney laces up his tap dancing shoes for a series of evasions, accusations, and distractions.
NBC’s Chuck Todd asked a simple question:
Five days before the launch, the president said it’s a website where you can compare and purchase affordable health care plans, the same way you shop for a plane ticket on Kayak. Who misled him? Who misled the president on this? Are you telling me five days before that somebody let the president go out to the American public to give this speech and say this and make this promise? In fact, the next line is: I promise you, this is a lot easier, it’s like booking a hotel or plane ticket. Who let him down? (Click here for the video)
The moment of journalism was accepted with reluctant babbling, and repetitive (and often un-related) talking points from the chief White House spokesperson. Todd’s presumption that the Chief Salesman for Obamacare (AKA: President Obama) was simply naive in his comparison, is a cute tactic to paint the Official White House Press-Jester into a corner. But it is off base.
The fact is, the President hasn’t the slightest clue what the private sector is actually like. To progressive liberals such as our campaigner in chief, the “private-sector” is a theoretical source of tax revenue.
Remember when Obama compared the Obamacare exchange “glitches” to a glitch in the newest batch of Apple operating software? The President actually suggested that the implementation of Obamacare was nothing different than predictable glitches in computer software.
Krauthammer Goes Off On Obama Comparing Obamacare Government Glitch To Apple -
Well. . . Aside from the obvious fact that citizens are not mandated by the Federal Government to purchase i-phones (well. . . Not yet. . . Apple should work on that) his ignorance of consumer demand is stunning. Businesses die every day for having failed the expectations or demands of its potential customer base.
As Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, once said, “There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” A tech company that implemented a new product or service with Obamacare’s comical lack of competency would, no doubt, find itself at the mercy of a disgruntled and shunning public.
Of course, government has no need to worry about such market forces. They can simply siphon off more taxes from the Sam Waltons of the world.
And Obama’s ridiculous sale’s pitch to the American people – that signing up on an Obamacare exchange would be like booking a hotel room – is no different than his tortured and cartoonish analogy to Apple. Chuck Todd made an astoundingly unexpected moment of journalism amidst the beltway lapdogs reporters in the room: either the President was lying, or he’s terribly incompetent as a chief executive officer of the United States of America.
Because, when viewed through the lens of Todd’s question, our Pitch-Man-in-Chief either intentionally misled the American people on Obamacare’s eventual efficiency; or he himself was misled by a bunch of incompetent fools who wrote 5 million lines of untested, and obviously insufficient, code.
Don’t, however, expect Carney’s little dance session with the NBC reporter to make much of a difference in the public’s opinion of the process. Just this morning the President read a speech on the success of Obamacare from his teleprompter. Three of the fifteen human props behind him had actually enrolled in the exchanges. (Three. . . Out of 300 million US citizens, the Obamacare-defending Administration was able to track down three success stories. Also in attendance: A unicorn and Leprechaun.)
So while American citizens struggle with the new law that mandates the purchase of an increasingly expensive product, our Public-Sector-CEO will continue to spin tales about the success of the law’s Rube Goldberg implementation. Carney will continue to tap dance, Obama will continue to campaign, and a handful of outlying journalists will quietly stumble across moments of actual journalism.
When did the President realize he was wrong? When he saw it on CNN?
Translation: Art Carney, this is clearly not the President’s fault. He’s an innocent victim. Who did this?
Did Carney say “I know you’re getting this out there for NBC, Chuck.” Did he stop his little feet and declare the Q&A was over?
Are you kidding? He still doesn’t think he’s wrong
"....it's good for everybody, if the president say's so"
I’ve got this theory. Barry and the ‘RATS thought they could come up with garbage like ObamaCare, throw it out there and Americans would make it work while the commie ‘RATS were making the rules. Americans are good at turning lemons into lemonade. Well, it looks to me as though America has “gone Galt” this time and left this mess up the communists to fix and figure out.
Chuck Todd and journalist in the same sentence. Wow
All the comparison websites, ones that actually work well like Amazon, EBay, et al where things are bought (and sold), have a common thread - efficient, quick service to a paying customer.
Obama’s website is tragically flawed because it has nothing to do with the above. It is a one-way data mining cumbersome crawler that intermingles with every known database to cross pollenate personal information. Only when its appetite for such is satisfied, it deigns to spurt out some half-assed limited government choice.
He wasn’t wrong about anything! He now owns you. What’s wrong with that?
“The president is focused like a laser beam on fixing this problem that someone else created.”
Similar to the post-Benghazi focus on the error in blaming the "spontaneous demonstration" on the video, when the real scandal was the lack of response and, even more, the original mission.
ROTFL---good one.
Has any lib been made to answer -
Did he know he was lying when he said we could keep our plan, our doctor, and reduce our premiums by $2500?
Or was he just ignorant?
They just misspelled JournoList.
Chuck Todd is simply trying to save the president (small”p” intended) from going down with the USS Obamacare.
Ha, yeah. Rush calls it, "random acts of journalism".
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