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Politico Belatedly Buries Gruber Video Scandal With Brief Misleading Reports
NewsBusters ^ | November 12, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 11/12/2014 3:14:59 PM PST by PJ-Comix

On Monday your humble correspondent speculated how the New Republic or Politico or other liberal sources would spin the Jonathan Gruber video scandal story in which he boasted about perpetrating Obamacare deception in order to get it passed. I offered bonus points to whichever liberal site could dream up the most creative spin control to explain away the viral video. Well, congratulations to Politico for the most entertaining spin.

How did they do it? Besides being rather late to the story, they finally got around to it today, they were careful to bury it with no reference to any of the Gruber Obamacare deception videos on the front page. On top of that they made both of their stories laughably brief without even posting the original Gruber video which set off the outcry or even a link to it. Finally, they made Fox News, not Gruber, the real focus of their reports. First off we start with the belated buried Politico report by Lucy McCalmont that announces "New video surfaces of Obamacare architect" and then gives no link first video.

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TOPICS: Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; gruber; grubervideo; jonathangruber; nancypelosi; obamacare; politico; stupidvoters
Bury, minimize, publish late, and spin as a Fox News obsession. That is how Politico treated this story.
1 posted on 11/12/2014 3:14:59 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Too late to bury it now. Gruber better avoid Ft. Marcy park if he knows what’s good for him.


2 posted on 11/12/2014 3:16:21 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: PJ-Comix

The FIX is in for RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE.


3 posted on 11/12/2014 3:20:32 PM PST by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: Diogenesis

Why won’t a GOP- or conservative-affiliated group run a crafty commercial on national TV spelling out the situation, complete with the key Gruber video-documented quotations? Need there be an election in order to motivate the swaying of public opinion? We need to kill this law dead.


4 posted on 11/12/2014 3:27:31 PM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: PJ-Comix

All the Republicans in congress are outraged! Aren’t they?


5 posted on 11/12/2014 3:28:37 PM PST by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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To: Billthedrill

As his face gets better known, he might have to find someplace new to live. He’s only gonna get more popular with people he’d rather not be around...


6 posted on 11/12/2014 3:31:33 PM PST by W. (We won. Get over it! Or not--I don't care--because we won!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Politico is at times worse than the old lying mediots.

First You Tube link to Gruber bragging about lying to stupid American Democratic Congressits and rat voters about ObozoCare.

GRUBER: “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G790p0LcgbI

Second Video link to Gruber bragging about how stupid American voters are/were to pass ObozoCare.

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/11/12/gruber-video-2-no-really-american-voters-are-stupid/


7 posted on 11/12/2014 3:55:22 PM PST by Grampa Dave (The Democrats, who run America are too old, too rich, and too very/very white elitist losers!.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Politico and Gruber are cut from the same cloth...


8 posted on 11/12/2014 6:12:17 PM PST by GOPJ (Gruber & MIT - all the class of boiler room lowlifes pushing worthless swamp land on innocents....)
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To: PJ-Comix

Any media outlet that apologizes for Gruber is complicit in labeling American voters as stupid.


9 posted on 11/12/2014 7:09:27 PM PST by randita ("Is a nation without borders a nation?"...Noonan)
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