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Jon Stewart on Obamacare's Sebelius: 'Maybe She's Just Lying to Me'
NewsMax ^ | Tuesday, 08 Oct 2013 | Greg Richter

Posted on 10/08/2013 2:26:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

As Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sat down to be interviewed, the Comedy Central host opened his laptop and issued a challenge: "I'm going to try and download every movie ever made, and you're going to try to sign up for Obamacare, and we'll see which happens first."

The website for people who don't have health insurance through their employers opened on Oct. 1, but has been plagued with glitches. The administration said that was because the program is so popular, but even defenders such as Stewart didn't buy the explanation.

HHS has declined to give numbers for how many have signed up under state exchanges, and when Stewart asked, Sebelius replied, "Fully enrolled? I can't tell you because I don't know." ...

Stewart repeatedly pressed Sebelius on why the individual mandate to buy insurance can't be delayed for a year since employers did get a one-year delay. Republicans have a valid point on the issue, he said.

But despite Sebelius' multiple attempts to answer the question, Stewart remained unable to grasp her reasoning. "Am I a stupid man?" he finally asked.

Stewart, a supporter of the Affordable Care Act, told Sebelius it is frustrating for him to have to defend the law when it "is less than ideal or is functioning at what seems to be a level of incompetence that is larger than what it should be."

As he closed out the show, with Sebelius no longer at his desk, Stewart admitted, "I still don't understand why individuals have to sign up and businesses don't."

Perhaps it is just too complicated to grasp easily, he said. "But then I think to myself, well, maybe she's just lying to me — just to me."

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jonstewart; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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To: dfwgator
He is a moron for supporting a bill he probably never read. He's a real moron if he believed the mountain of lies the regime used to sell obamacare. I got news for Stewart, being liberal doesn't make you cool, it makes you an arrogant prick.
21 posted on 10/08/2013 2:53:24 PM PDT by peeps36 (I'm Not A Racist, I Hate Douchebags f All Colors)
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To: Boogieman
As he closed out the show, with Sebelius no longer at his desk, Stewart admitted, "I still don't understand why individuals have to sign up and businesses don't." Perhaps it is just too complicated to grasp easily, he said. "But then I think to myself, well, maybe she's just lying to me ...

Jesus! Stewart - be careful - liberals don't play niceie nice... That said, thanks Jon - it took courage to stand up to one of 'em... tell your CPA to be extra careful with your returns... and hang in there.

22 posted on 10/08/2013 2:56:27 PM PDT by GOPJ (Brieitbart sent me... Freeper newfreep)
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To: SunkenCiv; Nachum
Jon Stewart on Obamacare's Sebelius: 'Maybe She's Just Lying to Me'

YA THINK!?

23 posted on 10/08/2013 3:05:59 PM PDT by Old Sarge (And Good Evening, Agent Smith, wherever you are...)
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To: PowderMonkey
"Ilsa." She wolf of the HHS

ROFL!!! The Most Dreaded Nazi of Them All!

24 posted on 10/08/2013 3:12:30 PM PDT by informavoracious (Of course I want people to have healthcare, I just didn't know I was the one who would be paying...)
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To: newfreep
“we have brought Western Civilization to its’ knees.”

The American leftists have made Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin very happy.

25 posted on 10/08/2013 3:15:35 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: SunkenCiv

26 posted on 10/08/2013 3:18:16 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: SunkenCiv

THE MONEY QUOTE:

Toward the end, Stewart argued that a market-based strategy toward health care is a flawed concept in itself and that a single payer system would have been a more simple approach. But Sebelius jumped in, saying, “if we could have perhaps figured out a pathway, that may have been a reasonable solution.”

“So this is jerry-rigged to deal with the crazy people?” Stewart asked.

“I think the president did not want to dismantle the health care that 85% of the country had,” Sebelius responded.

LEFTIST BA****DS


27 posted on 10/08/2013 4:39:39 PM PDT by Chickensoup (...We didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: Boogieman

They didn’t lose Stewart they weren’t radical enough for this man who will never have to participate in the leftist health care debacle.


28 posted on 10/08/2013 4:41:06 PM PDT by Chickensoup (we didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: Chickensoup
The CPUSA has lost Jon Stewart.

He's no Cronkite, but he'll do.

29 posted on 10/08/2013 4:47:16 PM PDT by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: SunkenCiv

“. “Am I a stupid man?” he finally asked.
Stewart, a supporter of the Affordable Care Act[...]”

Well, yes. But this level of incompetence is so blatantly obvious that even some of the stupid can see it when it kicks them and throws things at them, and pulls their hair. Too bad you didn’t see the obvious when it was merely having a fit in the lobby, and the other residents were complaining to you.


30 posted on 10/08/2013 5:05:47 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: max americana
Don't you just love it? If these morons were in Paris in 1940 they would have been trying to convince every body that the Germans stomping down the Champs Elysees were just tourists.
31 posted on 10/08/2013 7:41:40 PM PDT by jmacusa (I don't think so, but I doubt it.)
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To: jmacusa

If these morons were in Paris in 1940 they would have been trying to convince every body that the Germans stomping down the Champs Elysees were just tourists.
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If you are ‘old’ enough to remember who used to be the ‘brunt of all jokes’.......

“The reason the Germans took Poland so easy was they marched in backwards and everyone thought they were leaving”.


32 posted on 10/08/2013 8:16:36 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --Egoist:A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. (Ambrose Bierce))
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To: SunkenCiv; sickoflibs
Republicans have a valid point on the issue, he said.

Must a chilly night in hell.

33 posted on 10/08/2013 10:36:51 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: SunkenCiv

Pathetic when even a douche bag like Stewart gets it and the regime just continues to play dumb.


34 posted on 10/09/2013 3:31:31 AM PDT by Bullish (The only real solution is to abolish liberal democrats forever)
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To: Rome2000

The CPUSA has lost Jon Stewart.
He’s no Cronkite, but he’ll do.

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Why do you say that? He wanted a straight one payer system.


35 posted on 10/09/2013 5:02:53 AM PDT by Chickensoup (we didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: xrmusn

LOL!


36 posted on 10/09/2013 7:08:03 PM PDT by jmacusa (I don't think so, but I doubt it.)
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