He was “playing” the fool. A tactic used to deflect the criticism. If he is a “bigger” fool than first thought, then he is dismissed as just a fool. I think it’s working. I may be one of the ‘STUPID” people, but I could see his tongue in his cheek every time he “admitted” he was trying to make himself look smart. To liberals an apology makes everything go away. Snow job for the stupid people.
Yep. I doubt any sane person (on either side of the aisle) buys the transparently laughable garbage about his comments being “nothing more than an attempt to make himself look smart”. This is not about the truth (which both sides know, full well—i.e. that Gruber was being sincere in his alleged “glib and insulting” comments, and that he truly believed the CONTENT of what he was saying); this is about establishing plausible deniability (i.e. “if I throw enough B.S., they won’t be able to convict me by court-of-law standards”).
I’m amazed at the people who actually seem to have been taken with the idea of Gruber’s STYLE of commentary (and his entire “apology” is ENTIRELY about his style), rather than about the CONTENT. If he were to have said, “The American people are far too busy, brilliant, and important to be bothered with the content of a law which they would agree is wonderful, so let’s not bother with transparency!”, would the issue be substantially different? Obamacare was passed on false pretenses—with or without polite delivery and descriptions. Is this so hard to understand for these people?
Frankly, I’d be much happier if he called every last person in the USA “knuckle-dragging, naive idiots who would lose a wits contest with a box of rocks”, but then DID THE RIGHT THING.