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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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1 posted on 10/08/2013 2:26:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Kathleen Sebelius gets the Jon Stewart treatment
[no she doesn’t]
Politico | 8 Oct 2013 | LUCY MCCALMONT
Posted on 10/8/2013 10:42:04 AM by mandaladon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3076274/posts

Sebelius: Individuals Can Get A One Year Obamacare Delay — By Paying The Penalty
RealClearPolitics | October 7, 2013 | RealClearPolitics
Posted on 10/8/2013 1:22:02 AM by i88schwartz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3076152/posts


2 posted on 10/08/2013 2:28:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: SunkenCiv

When you lose Jon Stewart, you’ve lost another 20% of America.


3 posted on 10/08/2013 2:28:56 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SunkenCiv

Stewart should have a look at my tagline.


4 posted on 10/08/2013 2:29:21 PM PDT by jmacusa (I don't think so, but I doubt it.)
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To: Boogieman

Maybe John will finally learn what all of us Conservatives already know.

Government is the source, and not the solution of all the problems.


5 posted on 10/08/2013 2:29:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SunkenCiv

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PGF0xnMmuk


6 posted on 10/08/2013 2:31:02 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: jmacusa

“The administration said that was because the program is so popular”

Holy God, even when they step on dog crap, these brain-dead obama butt-lickers imagine they stepped on a puddle of water.


7 posted on 10/08/2013 2:32:20 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: gaijin

And here is her full 10 minutes with Stewart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXQVlVJzWFw


8 posted on 10/08/2013 2:32:20 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: SunkenCiv
"I still don't understand why individuals have to sign up and businesses don't."

....ah poor Jon, if you have paid attention for the last feakin year, most Americans wanted to know the same feakin thing...but no Jon, now that it's here...NOW NOW you don't understand

9 posted on 10/08/2013 2:33:00 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: SunkenCiv

Gee, you think, Jon, you useless leftist puke?


10 posted on 10/08/2013 2:33:52 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: dfwgator

>> Maybe John will finally learn

The idiot won’t learn a thing until his colon gets checked by the iron fist of govt health care.


11 posted on 10/08/2013 2:34:02 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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12 posted on 10/08/2013 2:35:05 PM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: SunkenCiv
"I don't know."

Breathtaking incompetence on display. "Ilsa." She wolf of the HHS doesn't know. Not a trick question. Not a "gotcha" or ambush. Members of this administration know this question will be asked when appearing before a national audience. And yet, none have been quick enough on their feet to just make up a number. Any number. Come on! How hard could that be? Mendacity is supposed to be their specialty. Who's going to challenge it?
13 posted on 10/08/2013 2:37:00 PM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: dfwgator

Doubtful. He’s a true believer. However, he is just sharp enough to know that defending Obama blindly will make him look like a fool, and he doesn’t like that one bit. So, for the sake of his own ego, Stewart tends to lash out at Obama when he does things that are hard to defend.


14 posted on 10/08/2013 2:39:52 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ll bet if Stewart handed her the computer, Sebelius wouldn’t have a clue what to do with it.


15 posted on 10/08/2013 2:43:03 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: SunkenCiv

Here’s the interview - in 2 parts:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/10/08/stewart-destroys-sebelius-obamacare

In Part 2 at ~ 3:15 Sebelius states “we have brought Western Civilization to its’ knees.”


16 posted on 10/08/2013 2:46:43 PM PDT by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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17 posted on 10/08/2013 2:48:04 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Jon Leibowitz is upset because Obamacare DOESN'T GO FAR ENOUGH.

He wants single-payer socialized medicine because he thinks, as do all geniuses, that the FedGov does such a great job with everything else.

18 posted on 10/08/2013 2:49:12 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: SunkenCiv
'Maybe She's Just Lying to Me'

Not the usual comment from a leftist entertainment elite regarding a leftist appointed ruling class icon.

19 posted on 10/08/2013 2:49:38 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: SunkenCiv

What’s a little lying to a mass infant murderer?


20 posted on 10/08/2013 2:50:10 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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