Posted on 11/15/2014 11:47:40 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A snippet of MIT economist Jonathan Gruber speaking candidly has resurfaced, but this time it’s about himself rather than American voters.
“I’m an ivory tower guy at heart and do my thing and figure I’m an honest guy and people will trust it,” Gruber told Politico in Jan. 2010.
The self-description is likely to resonate with the public after several videotaped recordings surfaced this week of Gruber calling Americans “stupid” and bragging about how “a lack of transparency” was necessary to pass Obamacare.
Gruber called himself “an ivory tower guy” after it came to light that he had been paid $392,600 by the Obama administration to help create Obamacare. Some media outlets that used Gruber as a source – such as Politico and Ezra Klein, then of the Washington Post – were unaware of the arrangement.
After the revelation, Politico and Klein said they would disclose Gruber’s financial ties in the future. The New York Times went as far as attaching an editor’s note to a Gruber op-ed from the previous year.
“On Friday, Professor Gruber confirmed reports that he is a paid consultant to the Department of Health and Human Services, and that his contract was in effect when he published his article. The article did not disclose this relationship to readers,” the note reads.
“Like other writers for the Op-Ed page, Professor Gruber signed a contract that obligated him to tell editors of such a relationship. Had editors been aware of Professor Gruber’s government ties, the Op-Ed page would have insisted on disclosure or not published his article.”
But Gruber dismissed claims that he had a conflict of interest, saying his public writing was kept separate from his work for the administration.
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You've got Gruber's number Vendome...
No I don’t.
Some other faggot has his number...
I am offended by the plastic switch plate in that obvious Craftsman House.
But Thank You Gruber!
Everything Gruber is saying about himself and US is consistent with my beliefs about progressives — they are self-superior, condescending, directed, intelligent, evil ... building edifices based on lies. Malignant, malevolent social engineers whose ideology and ambition revolves around a lust for power and control over those they deem unfit to take care of themselves. Tyrants. Fascists. Nazis.
With the money he was pulling in, it must be some damn nice cottage.
I think there’s a 50/50 chance this guy gets convicted of a felony before all of this is over.
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