The Hill has picked up this story.
Obama Flashback: ‘I’ve stolen ideas’ from Jonathan Gruber ‘liberally’
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/18/politics/obama-2006-praised-gruber/
Obama praised Jonathan Gruber in 2006
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Morning Joe Bashes Obama for Gruber Response: ‘White House Thinks People Are Stupid
Tuesday morning on Morning Joe the entire panel expressed bafflement that despite evidence of President Barack Obama and MIT professor Jonathan Gruber‘s intellectual relationship, the former attempted to dismiss the latter as just “some adviser” when asked about Gruber’s controversial comments.
Over the past ten days, multiple videos have emerged of Gruber suggesting the Affordable Care Act only passed because of a “lack of transparency” and “the stupidity of the American voter.” By carefully disguising the health care mandate as something other than a tax, Gruber has repeatedly said, the public was more welcoming to the legislation.
The latest video to emerge in so-called “GruberGate” was a 2006 clip of then-Sen. Obama naming Gruber among a small group of academics from whom he liberally steals ideas. But when asked about Gruber on Sunday, the president said: “I just heard about this… The fact that the some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the voters is no reflection on the process that was run.”
And because of that dismissive response, the Morning Joe crew went off this morning.
“Who Gruber? What Gruber? Where Gruber? Horton hears a Gruber? I don’t know a Gruber,” mocked Joe Scarborough. “How many times do we hear [from Obama], ‘I was just told about this scandal’?”
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