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Jonathan Gruber to MSNBC: My ‘Stupidity of the American Voter’ Remark was Inappropriate
mediaite ^ | Nov. 11, 2014 | Eddie Scarry

Posted on 11/11/2014 12:53:38 PM PST by SteveH

On MSNBC Tuesday, Gruber told Ronan Farrow that he “spoke inappropriately” when he made the comments, which surfaced this week in an online video.

“The comments in the video were made at an academic conference,” Gruber said. “I was speaking off the cuff and I basically spoke inappropriately and I regret having made those comments.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; california; endsjustifymeans; gruber; gruberapology; jonathangruber; nancypelosi; obamacare; socializedmedicine; stupidity; stupidvoters
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To: SteveH

The fact that a large amount of voters are stupid doesn’t make it okay to lie to them or those voters who aren’t stupid for that matter. Lying in order to pass a bill should be a crime. Of course voting for a bill you didn’t read and/or didn’t understand should be criminal too. While lying is addressed by the 8th commandment, it’s no less important than the 7 before it nor the 2 after.


61 posted on 11/11/2014 1:27:42 PM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
...What did think was going to happen with election results such as that????...

They were going to get lotsa "Free Stuff".

62 posted on 11/11/2014 1:28:42 PM PST by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: SteveH

What he REGRETS is getting caught on tape.


63 posted on 11/11/2014 1:29:43 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Beagle8U

That is footage of Gruber appearing for the first time in public over this newly discovered content. IMHO Gruber is not properly interviewed by MSNBC. He is actually spoonfed excuses and softball questions by the MSNBC interviewer, Ronan Farrow. No one appears to have been invited by MSNBC to present any opposing point of view. Hence, MSNBC is unreliable as a news source and can be counted upon only if one is looking for propaganda.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda

propaganda, n

ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.

It blows my mind that months after the first controversial Gruber Obamacare comment surfaces, another comment surfaces, and it is found by an amateur investigator over the Internet (which coincidentally Obama now proposes to tax heavily)— not by any MSM journalist.

(And I was perhaps being “inappropriate” in the use of “coincidentally” above.)


64 posted on 11/11/2014 1:29:48 PM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: Fantasywriter

Unfortunately the USSC shares the sentiment toward the mind of the american voter with Gruber.


65 posted on 11/11/2014 1:31:44 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: SteveH
Gruber was speaking exactly what he believed. He is just embarrassed that it has become public. The jackass didn't consider that he was being video taped? It was public presentation. It is an explicit admission that he was the author of a fraudulent act that was passed using deceitful tactics by the Democrat majority in the House and Senate.
66 posted on 11/11/2014 1:33:37 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: definitelynotaliberal

yeah, I imagine that to Obama-ites that this guy Gruber needs a one-way date with a lamp post at high speed before he finds another media outlet to open his mouth in front of. Wonder if he is scared yet? If not, maybe he should be. I would be avoiding airplanes and mercedes sports cars if I were him.


67 posted on 11/11/2014 1:34:21 PM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: aomagrat

The others must have been too stupid to realize it?


68 posted on 11/11/2014 1:35:11 PM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: SteveH

He thinks it was inappropriate because it was recorded.

Notice he didn’t say he thought he was wrong.


69 posted on 11/11/2014 1:44:08 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SteveH

Truth is always inappropriate to a liberal. Always.


70 posted on 11/11/2014 1:45:33 PM PST by austinaero
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To: SteveH

Ronan Farrow.... Has he come out of the closet, yet?


71 posted on 11/11/2014 1:48:00 PM PST by dragonblustar
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To: Fantasywriter

To drag out the word “nuanced” in the context of walking back an earlier inoperative comment is a further insult to the American voting public. I mean, shades of Kerry. Can the MSM come up with this stuff and keep a straight face? Ronan Farrow deserves an oscar, not a pulitzer. maybe they should have a new journalism award, but Godwin’s Law interferes with the name I would give it...

Anyway the MSM, when not censoring itself, is parodying itself, trying to come up for excuses for this guy. Sheesh.

Meanwhile, until the MSM starts being honest, “nuanced” seems to be the newspeak for declaring inconvenient truths in public and then needing to void the statements as inoperative later.


72 posted on 11/11/2014 1:48:02 PM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: blackdog

Agreed, but they also follow elections. Obama’s popularity has plummeted since Roberts did his gyrating-pretzel dance. Roberts will find it less scary now to rule against The Won. That’s my POV, anyway. Take it for what it’s worth.


73 posted on 11/11/2014 1:48:57 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: SteveH

‘Ronan Farrow deserves an oscar, not a pulitzer.’

Lol!

+1


74 posted on 11/11/2014 1:50:33 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Smedley

Bingo!


75 posted on 11/11/2014 1:50:37 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both. Hat)
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To: SteveH

The problem is not that he said it, the problem is the ways the law was passed were dishonest and illegal.


76 posted on 11/11/2014 1:58:20 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: SteveH

It looks like the only thing left is for Gruber to trot out the “I take full responsibility” line, which is supposed to have the magical ability (with loser liberals) to make everybody shrug their shoulders and “move on”.


77 posted on 11/11/2014 2:06:24 PM PST by odawg
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To: SteveH

Gruber’s very existence is inappropriate, an insult to the Constitution and the good people of this Republic.


78 posted on 11/11/2014 2:14:32 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: SteveH

Translation: I got caught telling the truth.


79 posted on 11/11/2014 2:15:46 PM PST by Fledermaus (REPEAL OBAMACARE!! Hold the feet of the GOPe to the fire!)
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To: odawg

Total failure of the mental part of the political game. Man can not shut his mouth. Would love to play poker against blabber mouth. He is perfect. If we had to invent someone to play the part we could not find someone better.Thanks Jonathan


80 posted on 11/11/2014 2:17:24 PM PST by magua
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