Posted on 11/24/2014 1:36:50 PM PST by jazusamo
Jonathan Gruber's several videotaped remarks about the gross deceptions that got ObamaCare passed in Congress should tell us a lot about the Obama administration. And the way that the mainstream media hesitated for days to even mention what Professor Gruber said, while they obsessed over unsubstantiated charges against Bill Cosby, should tell us a lot about the media.
Whatever did or did not happen between Bill Cosby and various women is not likely to affect the lives of 300 million Americans. But ObamaCare does.
For both the politicians and the media, this was not just an isolated incident. Gruber's videotaped discussions of the complicated deceptions built into ObamaCare with his help, designed to take advantage of what he called the "stupidity" of the public, are all too typical of the role played by the political left.
Neither the politicians nor the intelligentsia — including the media — want that role exposed for what it is.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi acted as if she had never heard of Jonathan Gruber, and had no idea who he was. But she too had been caught on tape, a few years ago, citing him as someone whose support of ObamaCare was supposed to show that the "experts" knew how good it was.
President Obama gave a somewhat more sophisticated version of the same act. He pointed out that Professor Gruber was not part of his staff. But he did not mention that Gruber had been to the White House 19 times, and the Obama administration had paid Gruber about $400,000 of the taxpayers' money for his supposedly unbiased expert opinion.
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It’s all about selling a false narrative to a gullible and stupid majority. The more the better, the easier it becomes. I wrote this piece today about this subject of harnessing the deliberate false narrative. Gruber was just stupid, done in by hubris, unable to resist the temptation to openly brag to his loving cohort of peers, forgetting that video is everywhere today. Can you say Macaca? Hello?
Here is something I just posted on the Arfcom Stonewalled thread. Keep an eye out for a short piece on this topic about how Team Obama wins by using the False Narrative Method. In fact, it such a go-to strategy, that it immediately came to mind on Benghazi 9-11, because they keep “media tools” on ice for when they need them, then toss the to friendly media playing Master and Rover, go fetch. Tail wagging. Look at all the false narratives, starting with Obama is just an all-American boy of mixed heritage. They know better, at American Pravda. They could have done Ayers-Obama stories ten years ago and saved us from this. They knew. And now, but they did not report. The entire subject was taboo, stonewalled. At American Pravda they are committed to supporting Obamas’ False Narrative no matter what.
Another false narrative, just turn on ABCNNBCBS News anytime. Most reasonable Americans are welcoming their new neighbors from Central America cheerfully. “Welcome to our neighborhood, Graciella and familia!” Only a few ugly hate-filled racist tea-party types are out there screaming at children! Boo-hiss on racist bitter clingers! You can count on seeing it that way on Reasonable TV.
But we look around our areas and we don’t see reality like that anywhere we’ve been. Most Americans do NOT want to get in line with more people, especially illiterate poor sick non-English speakers in the shuffle of life. Life is already hard. Enough all ready. But you don’t see reality on ABCNNBCBS. You see the false narrative. “A new NBC-Merrick polls suggests that most Americans support President Obama’s new immigration initiative.” Cut from blessed happy multicultural scenes, and the pretty valedictorian getting her degree, cut over to a few old, fat, white racists screaming at crying children from far away who just need a home.
Goebbels could not have scripted it better.
That’s why reporters like Atkisson and Hastings are such a danger to them. They pop the bubble of the false narratives, at least sometimes. Hastings was most likely murdered by cutouts of coutouts but leading back to who would be most damaged by a Hastings blockbuster about Petraeu/Morell/Brennan/Hillary/Panetta/Jarrett and Obama hiding under his bed or in a “safe room” behind it, cowering. Can you imagine the incredible movie it would make? Truthfully told? “12 Hours in Benghazi and DC” would be the most incredible movie ever. But it would never be 1/2 truthfully told. There is too much disgraceful behavior by top players who would be harmed. Hillary for starters. Obama, he doesn’t care. It’s a joke to him (”I didn’t dissolve parliament!”), he’s a short timer and he’ll make a cool million a speech forever.
It’s all so corrupt and rotten it sickens me. Steve Kroft of 60 minutes, all the rest, “dependable go-to pass-off guys who play “fetch” for Team Obama, what presstitutes. The are willing actors in selling the Team Obama False Narrative.
A link to the full-text Free Republic thread posted today.
Very true - and applies every bit as well to those who want to deploy federal force against vice.
Selling it to whom? The Dims in Congress? The Nancy Pelosism of "We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it" didn't clue the clueless that something was very wrong with the legislation, not to mention the way they were gladly being handed a pig-in-a-poke, without due consideration?
Well said and thanks for linking your essay.
The enemedia will jump through hoops to protect 0bama and his criminal organization. I don’t doubt you’re right about Hastings and hope Attkisson has help watching her back.
Someday we will see another “Jonathan Gruber” in front of a camera bragging about how the leftist Democrat Party put one over on the stupid American voter by electing to the Presidency of the United States an illegal alien who couldn’t produce a birth certificate, or college transcripts, had never before held a job, couldn’t speak proper English unless he read it from a teleprompter, and didn’t even know there were fifty states in the U.S.
Sowell is right of course. What fool would trust anything this Administration says or promises?
We’re their betters. They just don’t know it.
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He said if every American who could not afford health insurance had been placed on Medicaid, the annual cost would have been $200 billion.
He also pointed out that Americans who could afford insurance were 80%-90% satisfied with their policies.
I'll guess that when the real costs of ObamaCare are added up, that $200 billion price tag on Medicaid will look pretty reasonable.
Instead, we ripped apart and destroyed one of the best health care systems in the world.
I hear you...In my view the Dems pushed it through when they knew they could and no matter what they say now there was not one Republican in either House that voted for it.
Even if it’s repealed which is not likely to happen, our health care system will never be what it was.
Thank you for posting this. I was wanting to know Dr. Sowell’s take on Grubergate.
The world’s greatest intellectual cuts to the chase again. Dr. Sowell also points to a possible motive for all these Bill Cosby allegations: namely, to deflect attention away from Obama and possibly Mr. Gruber as well with some salacious gossip.
” I’ll guess that when the real costs of ObamaCare are added up, that $200 billion price tag on Medicaid will look pretty reasonable.
Instead, we ripped apart and destroyed one of the best health care systems in the world. “
Good point. It was all about
Destruction
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