Jonathan Gruber Tries To Hide His Remarks

Est Quod Est ^ | 11/11/2014 | Pauli

[Pauli67]

The University of Pennsylvania which had originally posted this has now pulled down the video from their site. But this is an attempt on the part of Jonathan Gruber and company to pull their pants up after they got caught. I think it's comical that these people still believe they can say whatever they want in public, but then flip out if anyone quotes them.

It also appears that the Snopes.com mafia has been called in to cast doubt upon the incident as conservatives have reported it. They call this claim a Mixture of true and false. Here's their lame conclusion.

While the newly-circulated video of Gruber's remarks is unedited, the comments are neither recent nor complete, and whether the originating source attempted to pull them from the Internet at one point remains unclear.

What in the world remains unclear about what happened? The Snopes page, which is marked 10 November 2014, is pretty high up in the Google search results for Jonathan Gruber currently, about the 7th entry on the first page. Bing has it on the 4th page. Of course I don't have evidence, but this just feels like an attempt at damage control. Snopes has formerly been exposed as untrustworthy and biased, but hilariously the best Gruber and company can get from them is a rating of "Mixture" on the propaganda piece. It should get a rating of Mostly True which they sometimes give out if they're being generous to Gruber, but it appears that even Snopes won't damage their cred further by giving it a False. Factcheck.org doesn't have anything up yet.

[SteveH]

It was interesting to read in the media that Gruber has not even been seen in public lately, so I went to his MIT web page to look up his class schedule.

Lo and behold, Gruber has no visible means of support.

By this i mean not that he is unaffiliated with a university, but that he does not actually teach, and is not an emeritus... at least not yet.

So what do active university professors do when they are not teaching? Either sabbaticals or full time research supported by external grants.

I sent an inquiry to MIT Economics Department Head Whitney Newey

http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/wnewey

asking what Prof. Gruber has been doing these last few years and what his sources of funding are.

I think the motivations of people are best understood when their sources of funding are clearly identified.

[SteveH]

Jonathan Gruber
Contact Information
Phone: (617) 253-8892
Fax: (617) 253-1330
Email: gruberj@mit.edu
Address:
MIT Department of Economics
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Bldg E17-220
Cambridge MA 02139

Support Staff:
John Arditi
Phone: (617) 253-8887
Email: arditi@mit.edu

[machogirl]

[a fool in paradise]

A conservative would get a twinge of guilt - a feeling that this is not right - if he had to lie to get an idea passed. A liberal feels a sense of superiority.

Stalinists lie. ALWAYS