Posted on 11/19/2014 7:12:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Universities that hosted Jonathan Gruber are now removing videos of the MIT professor from their websites after a series of candid admissions from the Obamacare architect ignited a firestorm against the health-care law.
Videos from college conferences and Washington think tanks over the last few years show Gruber bragging about the law’s deliberate complexity and belittling American voters’ intelligence.
Now at least two colleges who hosted the professor have tried to scrub Gruber from the internet. The University of Pennsylvania removed Gruber’s October 2013 panel appearance — in which he laughed about “the stupidity of the American voter” — on November 10, but quickly reposted the video after withering criticism.
On Monday the University of Rhode Island took a page out of Penn’s book, removing a 2012 discussion where Gruber explains how the law was passed to “exploit” the American voters’ “lack of economic understanding.” URI offered no explanation on its webpage as to why the video was pulled.
Dave LaVallee, assistant communications director at URI, told National Review Online that the university is currently investigating why the video was pulled.
Unless of course Google takes them down as well...
Removing the videos only magnifies the guilt.
They’re just embarrassed that they were so stupid as to have paid this flim- flam artist.
Doesn’t matter, got them all stashed on an external drive!
Well, I don’t think it was stupidity on their part,
it was arrogance.
Just like it was arrogance for Gruber himself to declare how clever he and Obama were to get this policy ensconced against the will of the “lesser” people of the country.
I see. Removing the scotch tape from the door latches.
The are embarrassed that they were exposed
as having known what was going on.
That is a conspiracy.
It’s unstated common knowledge that
“liberalism exposed is liberalism defeated”.
I had a handle on an “open” forum of “expose liberalism”,
and the libs targeted me like crazy.
Nothing says “intellectual freedom and enquiry” like removing unfavorable political videos.
Feel the love...
BINGO!
And will live forever, accessible via the “Wayback Machine”...
First the press, then the colleges. Willing to do anything at all to protect this criminal administration.
Got my lesson on that back in the circa 2002...
There are some CRAZY libs out there. It’s a good idea to take care about how much you say on open forums.
One drove down from Chicago, and showed up at my WORK, screaming obscenities at me. Unfortunately for him, I was the boss, and the Airport Police, who I knew well, did not take it too well when he started yelling at them, screaming “Free Speech!!’.
He ended up with a Trespassing and disturbing charge.
Now, my “adventure” with a lib named Vikram Buddhi is a completely different story.
The truth about them and their beliefs is like showing a Cross to a vampire.
It’s almost as if their ideology is based on some demonic inspiration that has placed itself in opposition to Truth...
“almost” my left foot...
Are they embarrassed that they did the wrong thing or are they just being good little liberals?
Lol, what do they have to hide?
“Acting guilty”
BTW, Am I the only one who gets offended when the media says things like "....Gruber fooled the American voters."?
Conservatives were never fooled about this law or its consequences. From the very beginning we were against it, in fact it was a big reason for the Tea Party movement. It was the low information, soccer-mom, liberal, college dorm type voter who bought the lie that 0bama was providing free insurance to those who had none. This is why 0bama care was passed using reconciliation, on a strict party line vote , in the dead of night on Christmas Eve and it needed the SCOTUS to "reclassify it" as a tax.
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