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Juan Williams On Obama Meeting: White House In "Full Fight Mode"
Real Clear Politics ^ | Posted on November 21, 2013 | Real Clear Politics Video

Posted on 11/22/2013 12:32:10 PM PST by Kenny

JON SCOTT: You were at the White House. You want to tell us about that?

JUAN WILLIAMS: What happened was the White House invited a small group of journalists over to talk with the president. I can't tell you what the president said, that is off the record. But I met with other senior officials at the White House and I can tell you they are in full fight mode over the Affordable Care Act right now. What you hear from these senior officials is, you know, they're concerned about what happened with insurance companies.

They wish the insurance companies hadn't sent out the cancellation notices and if they had, that they simply call them renewals. And, they feel right now, as if, you know, they had a major systems failure, major management failure and they're trying to get back on track. Their big concern right now is with people who had those cancellation notices and making sure those people feel they have been taken care of. They feel they have to turn that around, as the first step in trying to repair the damage that's been done to this president.

SCOTT: Is it fair to say they're also trying to change the messaging here.

WILLIAMS: Absolutely. I mean, you know there is frustration. I think that's clear from everybody who I was talking to this morning at the White House, is frustration.

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. They're frustrated with the way that this has been portrayed in the media because they say it has done some good. Bill Clinton couldn't even get a vote on proposed health care reform. 100 years people have been trying. This is hard work as one of them said.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Kenny

In other words, they told the media to help them, which the media is all to willing to do.


61 posted on 11/22/2013 1:21:53 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Kenny

“They wish the insurance companies hadn’t sent out the cancellation notices and if they had, that they simply call them renewals.’

In other words, they wish the insurance companies hadn’t followed the law and their legal obligations to call a cancellation a cancellation, but to sugar coat with a propagandized message in spite of insurance regulations.

These folks in the WH simply don’t believe that a law is a law.


62 posted on 11/22/2013 1:22:17 PM PST by wildbill
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To: Kenny

“They wish the insurance companies hadn’t sent out the cancellation notices and if they had, that they simply call them renewals.”

The effect would be identical, only with a slight delay. I don’t know how an honest person could tell someone their policy will be terminated because it is up for renewal, but a good wordsmith could probably figure it out.

But this would still lead to those same folks trying to get on Healthcare.gov and discovering the same nightmare and then realizing their policy is cancelled. Then those calling it a “renewal” would be called out as liars.

Who do they expect to buy this crap?


63 posted on 11/22/2013 1:32:47 PM PST by redfreedom (All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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To: Kenny
Absolutely. AS I have reminded people from time to time, no one goes down without a fight. All this talk about the "end of the liberal experiment," "the end of the democrat party" etc etc is bunk. Pay it no mind.

Obamacare will survive through sheer brute government force and endless monopoly money, if nothing else.

64 posted on 11/22/2013 1:44:12 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Depending what your definition of the word “true” is.


65 posted on 11/22/2013 1:45:39 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Kenny

I have little use for Juan Williams who is a narrow minded bigot, but he has indicated the white hut is in full damage control mode. This can be extrapolated to mean very dangerous. Cornered rats and all that.


66 posted on 11/22/2013 1:54:36 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Kenny
I can't tell you what the president said, that is off the record.

Then what was the point and purpose of the meeting? And why does the website say "access forbidden"?

67 posted on 11/22/2013 1:54:40 PM PST by Excellence (All your database are belong to us.)
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To: tanknetter
Juan uses “Affordable Care Act”.

I would bet the rent that they were specifically instructed privately to refer to it always as the ACA instead of Obamacare in all public discourse to modify public perception through endless repetition.
68 posted on 11/22/2013 1:59:22 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Kenny

Why is what journalists were told in a meeting off the record? We’re way past anything reasonable or responsible going on.


69 posted on 11/22/2013 2:01:48 PM PST by grania
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Elections will fix this? You're dreaming.
  1. Some conservatives will sit home because their candidate is not pure enough. (See 2008 and 2012)
  2. Enough RINO/GOP-e's will get re-elected to keep status quo.
  3. The voters who depend upon government for their daily bread will show up in DROVES!
  4. And finally: "I care not who votes, I care only who COUNTS the votes."
We don't stand a chance. Freedom was nice while it lasted.
70 posted on 11/22/2013 2:02:19 PM PST by tpmintx (Gun free zones are hunting preserves for unarmed people.)
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To: MUDDOG

But don’t they say that about everything that goes wrong for them? They never consider it might be substance, it’s always that we the people just don’t get it.


71 posted on 11/22/2013 2:06:26 PM PST by CityCenter (Resist Obamacare!)
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To: MUDDOG

-——They think the problem is the messaging.-——

I don’t think so. They know the scope of the problem....disaster.

They think they can finesse the problem with the use of words. They fineness every problems with lies and double speak.

Their real problem is that the fineness is not succeeding this go round. Worse, the other fineness is wearing thin as realization dawns


72 posted on 11/22/2013 2:15:16 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: Kenny

Collaborationist masquerading as a journalist.


73 posted on 11/22/2013 2:29:18 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: CityCenter

You bet, that’s been their pattern. But there’s a great chance that this time they won’t get away with it.


74 posted on 11/22/2013 2:31:07 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Diogenesis
"The Corrupt Regime is backed by the GOP at the core. And they know it."

Wow! I believe this is the most daft statement I have ever seen on this site.

75 posted on 11/22/2013 2:33:20 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: Kenny

“Their big concern right now is with people who had those cancellation notices and making sure those people feel they have been taken care of.”

Juan has spilled the beans. The WH’s concern is not with actually correcting problems, but with adjusting how someone “feels”. These goofs are so imprisoned by their post-modernist world view that they cannot address reality — just messaging. This is why they are incapable of accomplishing much of anything.


76 posted on 11/22/2013 2:35:15 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: bert

Evidence for what you say was at the recent press conference, where Obama seemed shaken (unlike his usual condescending self), which indicates he knows he’s in deep doo-doo that he can’t talk his way out of, or get rescued by someone.


77 posted on 11/22/2013 2:38:14 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Kenny
Obama Knee Pads photo ObamaKneePads_zps7c6e8717.jpg

78 posted on 11/22/2013 2:39:13 PM PST by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: 12chachacha

Easy solution: Don’t spend 3 years lying to 300 million Americans on TV.


79 posted on 11/22/2013 2:46:52 PM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Kenny

Zero will NEVER give up on this. We have to make him give up.


80 posted on 11/22/2013 2:49:46 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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