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CNBC Elitism: Harwood Claims Public Doesn’t Know Enough to Make Judgment on ObamaCare
NewsBusters ^ | January 22, 2010 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 01/22/2010 1:11:55 PM PST by Rufus2007

CNBC "Squawk Box" co-hosts Joe Kernen and Becky Quick get it. Unfortunately, their CNBC colleague that covers Washington, D.C. for the network doesn't.

On the Jan. 22 broadcast, Harwood appeared on the program to give a status report on the current version of health care reform being negotiated in Congress and what it means in the aftermath of Scott Brown's filibuster-proof busting election victory in Massachusetts on Jan. 20. Kernen suggested that the health care bill might have been forced through if not Brown's election and the public fervor it revealed.

"I think it's unbelievable that it would have gone through and they would have definitely jammed it through if this weird, serendipitous seat hadn't opened up and if there hadn't been a special election, 17 percent of the economy - based on what they wanted to do, based on what these elected officials wanted to do, against what the public wants - they would have just rammed it through, either way," Kernen said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: advertisement; beckyquick; bhohealthcare; cnbc; obamacare; socialsecurity; ss
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Oh, those scruffy, uninformed Untermenschen who can't understand health care. It's a shame we let them vote.
1 posted on 01/22/2010 1:11:56 PM PST by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

Neither does most of Congress. All the more reason why it SHOULD NOT BE PASSED.


2 posted on 01/22/2010 1:14:52 PM PST by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: Rufus2007

If any of those rubes are ready to match IQs, just let me know.


3 posted on 01/22/2010 1:15:23 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Rufus2007

SInce they won’t tell us what’s in it, we don’t know enough, therefore we MUST oppose it.


4 posted on 01/22/2010 1:16:33 PM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Rufus2007

But we do understand it.

We will get royally screwed out of our money and freedoms.
It’s CBS that doesn’t get it.


5 posted on 01/22/2010 1:16:51 PM PST by rbosque (11 year Freeper! Combat Economist.)
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To: Rufus2007

Becky Quick is definitely not guilty.


6 posted on 01/22/2010 1:17:47 PM PST by Newtoidaho (Liberals are nothing more than drooling buffoons. Spread the word.)
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To: Rufus2007

Glad to see the hosts schooled this idiot, even if he was too dumb to take away any lesson from it.


7 posted on 01/22/2010 1:19:42 PM PST by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: Rufus2007
FUJH and FUBO
8 posted on 01/22/2010 1:19:48 PM PST by Eddie01 (Billy was a mountain, Ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder)
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To: Rufus2007

CBS News, fake but accurate. Yes we don’t know enough because some group of people did not want us to know enough. Certainly would be nice to have a free and functioning independent news gathering agency committed to transparency that would fight like tigers when politicians went behind closed doors to write law. Too bad we don’t have such a thing. Must be Bush’s fault.


9 posted on 01/22/2010 1:21:20 PM PST by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Rufus2007

I’m ready to be learned!


10 posted on 01/22/2010 1:21:56 PM PST by Pajama Blogger (Pajama Power)
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To: Rufus2007

John Harwood is just the absolute epitome of the so-called Elites that just think we in the Silent Majority are just rubes. You wonder what this guy has been doing for his entire adult life, watching liberalism crash and burn and ALWAYS FAIL while conservative principles ALWAYS WORK over time... and yet, his biased point of view continues to be spewed over the airwaves at CNBC. I’m sure he was part of the Al Hunt rabble that took over the news section of the Wall Street Journal years ago and this propelled him into CNBC but he’s always been wrong on every topic I’ve ever heard him opine on.


12 posted on 01/22/2010 1:27:46 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: Da Coyote
If any of those rubes are ready to match IQs, just let me know.

...

So the robot bartender says "Welcome. What's your IQ?"

The guy responds "Uh, 70".

And the robot bartender says "Too bad about Coakley, huh?"


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

13 posted on 01/22/2010 1:34:14 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Rufus2007

So Becky ,what your saying is when your being raped lay back and enjoy it. Nice Becky.


14 posted on 01/22/2010 1:38:25 PM PST by hflynn (The One is really the Number Two)
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Ya, to bad we have to let them breed but, we have to get grimy little hands on there.....er our money from somewhere.


15 posted on 01/22/2010 1:51:23 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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That kind of talk is really out of line...we don’t talk to ladies like that, it is wrong.


16 posted on 01/22/2010 2:01:11 PM PST by Wpin (I do not regret my admiration for W)
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To: Rufus2007

This is classic liberalism. The great unwashed are too stupid to make the “right” decisions in their lives so the liberal elites must make them.


17 posted on 01/22/2010 2:03:57 PM PST by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: Rufus2007

The stupid American peasants are not smart enough to DESERVE the protections in the Constitution. They NEED King Obama and his Congressional jesters, Hairy and NannyGoat.


18 posted on 01/22/2010 2:04:11 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Wpin

Okay Arlen.


19 posted on 01/22/2010 2:06:23 PM PST by hflynn (The One is really the Number Two)
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To: hflynn
Okay Arlen. Ouch, that one stung...got me.
20 posted on 01/22/2010 2:10:20 PM PST by Wpin (I do not regret my admiration for W)
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