Washington Post Writer Fails to Fact Check Nancy Pelosi's Jonathan Gruber Denial

The Obamacare architect that dares not speak its name. At least from the lips of Democrats who nowadays are pretending to have little or no knowledge of Jonathan Gruber. The most prominent of the Gruber denialists is House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi quoted by Washington Post reporter Sean Sullivan whose story headline also featured this denial: "I don't know who he is. He didn't help write our bill."

Gee. If Nancy Pelosi said that then it must be true! If you think me a bit too credulous for accepting Pelosi denial without checking her veracity, well that is exactly what Sullivan did. Absolutely no fact checking. Of course, in this Age of the Web, fact checking is relatively easy. No need to pound the pavement in the hot sun or extreme cold hunting down leads as in the old days. All Sean needed to do was type in some words like "Nancy Pelosi Jonathan Gruber" into Google and sift through the results. Hey, he could have even sipped on some coffee and enjoyed a jelly doughnut while performing this far from arduous task. If he had done so he would have soon found Pelosi's House Speaker website post of December 1, 2009 which was chock full of Gruber.

The most recent coverage of Jonathan Gruber to date by PBS Newshour is on Oct. 28, 2013.

To confirm, use the PBS NewsHour link here:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/search-results/?q=gruber#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=gruber&gsc.sort=date

I imagine that the PBS NewsHour editors must be waiting for the queue from Obama. What other explanation could there be?

Wait, this just in— someone at PBS NewsHour left a microphone on, and yours truly has obtained a copy! Here is the transcript:

GWEN IFILL

Hi Mr President, sorry to bother you, but this Jonathan Gruber thing calling the American voters who supported you and Obamacare stupid is starting to become a concern to us. So tell us Mr President, is it time for us who love you at PBS NewsHour to cover Gruber yet?

BARACK OBAMA

No. Not yet, Gwen. And by the way thank you for asking us first if this is newsworthy, and I really appreciate you checking in with us. But we wanna be clear with you and your colleagues at PBS NewsHour who have helped us so much in the past. Here is what you can do for us: just wait a few more days and my wonderful amnesty executive orders will give you plenty of news to talk about. Then you can mention Gruber— but as old news , Gwen. Make sure you label it OLD NEWS. Since it will be old news by then, you don’t have to keep it on the tube for long. You can go back to our wonderful selves issuing fancy new executive orders or whatever other wonderful stuff we are doing for you stupid people.

GWEN. Oh thanks Mr President. I was worried that we were missing something here at the news desk. But now you have reassured us! Hope and Change! We at PBS NewsHour love you, and I want you to know that I am getting those tingles right now!!

BARACK. Yea stupid biotch, whatever. OK Reggie, where were we mmm yes, right THERE Reggie...

There you have it. I’m sure PBS NewsHour will let us know about any news about Gruber at the appropriate time. Meanwhile, all you stupid American voters out there, stay tuned to PBS NewsHour, for the best liberal tax and spend propaganda that our tax dollars can buy!

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Besides Jonathan Gruber, Ezekiel Emmanuel was also one of the "architects" of this socialist wealth redistribution scheme.

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