Posted on 09/23/2013 4:19:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
This should pretty much be a rule by now: Beware of anchors bearing fact checks. Today on NBC’s Meet the Press, after Democratic representative Barbara Lee of California issued the ludicrous claim that “health-care costs are going down” and Republican Marsha Blackburn took issue with it, David Gregory told his guests he was going to “inject a point of fact here” to clear up the debate about insurance-premium changes under Obamacare. But instead, he muddied the issue and blamed the premium increases in some states on Republican obstructionism, rather than explaining what’s actually happening. Here’s what he said:
[Premiums] have gone up in some states, they’re coming down in other states if they have exchanges. You know full well it depends on who the governor is — if you’re a governor of Florida, you’re inimical to the Affordable Care Act, the feds have to come in and do it. In New York, Democratic governor, they’re having an easier time of it. So it really does matter where you are.
Gregory is right that it matters where you are: Not all states will see large average increases in health-insurance premiums on the individual market, and some could actually go down. But so far, the divergence between states doesn’t have anything to do with the issues he adduces here — whether the state has agreed to set up an exchange, how favorably disposed the state government is to Obamacare, and whether it currently has a Republican or Democratic governor — which, a cynical reader might note, shift blame for “rate shock” onto uncooperative Republican governments.
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Gregory isn’t a journalist. He’s an advocate.
Republican governors are one of the only things keeping the whole nation from dying, but democrat hacks like David Gregory would never be able to understand that.
Yeah, it's the 98% giving the rest of them a bad name.
Gregor’s lost twin?
You can say that again
Advocate of lies
Candy Crowley set the standard for debate intervention on behalf of their political masters.
Journalism is dead. Liberal infotainment is what we deal with now.
He played fast and loose with the DC gun laws and got away with it. Why would I believe anything he says?
Why would anyone believe anything the mainstream news media says? They are nothing but a punchline in more and more people’s eyes.
You have a stupid commentator defending a hardcore black Marxist against a white intelligent conservative. That is what they calls “fair and balanced news” today.
He's ugly, too.
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