Supposedly Apolitical 'Today' Guest Is HuffPo Blogger, Urged Lobbying For ObamaCare

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Jenna Wolfe's introduction of her guest on health-care on this morning's Today would surely have led viewers to believe he was an objective, apolitical voice. What she didn't tell viewers is that guest Andrew Rubin in a HuffPo blogger and such an avid ObamaCare advocate that he urged his readers to call Congress to lobby for it. Here was Wolfe's intro:

"The politics surrounding the health-care bill has dominated the headlines. But with the House vote just hours away, what's really in this bill and how will it affect you? Andrew Rubin is the host of HealthCare Connect on Sirius XM Radio. Andrew, good morning. There's so much involved here; let's try to break this down as to how it affects everyone."

I began to doubt Rubin's objectivity when he explained the bill's effect on various demographic groups by in in every case claiming that ObamaCare would be good in the short run and even better in the long run. I kept waiting for some balance: a discussion for example, of the massive taxes ObamaCare imposes, or the loss of freedom that the individual mandate represents. But never a discouraging word was heard. ObamaCare: all gain, no pain!

View video here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

A little journalistic fraud to start your day, courtesy the Today show. Ping to Today show list.

[abb]

“Journalistic fraud” is a tautology, like saying “wet water” or “hot flames.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_%28rhetoric%29

[SmokingJoe]

When the lame stream media tell you that their guest is “objective and apolitical”, that is code for that guest being to the left of Stalin.
When they say their guest is a “right wing extremist”, then of course that guest is a normal, hard working, mainstream American.
Is it any wonder the mainstream media is losing money hand over first and laying off staff practically every month? They deserve to lose their jobs and be put out of business.
This "guest" looks gay and as dishonest looking as they come. What swamp did they dig him from?

[chilltherats]

There was a good dose of it on CNN earlier. Brianna Somebody was bemoaning the racial and gay epithets hurled by tea partiers yesterday at the capitol, all alleged, no proof even though full video and audio is available. Nobody challenged it, of course.

[Lancey Howard]

Nice work outing this scumbag Rubin and ‘Today’.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks, Lancey. They can run but they can’t hide.

[demkicker]

NBC tries its best to disguise the fact they are a Marxist network, but they don’t fool the informed. If there were only more of us! I hope everyone who works for that network has to really SUFFER when their healthcare is rationed.