ABC, NBC Finally Acknowledge Existence of Gruber Videos

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  1. Gatewood

    Gatewood Well-Known Member

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    The thing is that the 'truth' is gradually seeping out to the general public due -- as you say -- to the existence of the Internet and to those increasingly rare ethical journalists formerly members of the MSM who buck the 'go along to get along' pattern of the rest of their peers. But what's making the most difference and what deep-sixed the Dem Party's political fortunes in this mid term elections cycle was the subconscious processing of our nation's citizenry, the differences between what they read or hear the MSM 'say' and what they actually notice happening inside this nation and in the world in general and what their innate common sense tells them must therefore be the actual nature and state of reality.

    In other words, simply via living and thinking while existing in the real world the average citizen is finally becoming convinced that the bulk of the Mainstream Media is chronically in-the-tank for Obama and for the Dem Party's leadership in general . . . and this makes them uneasy, even the Dem Party voter on the whole, because they KNOW that a chronically biased MSM is not good for the nation.
     
  2. Gatewood

    Gatewood Well-Known Member

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    Didn't you even read the BBC? They were all over this by no later than the second day. But then again they are not OUR MSM. Very interesting, eh?
     
  3. snakestretcher

    snakestretcher Banned

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    Americans voted for both Bush and Obama twice. How is that not stupid? "Fool me once..."

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    No, I have no idea what this Gruber character is supposed to have said.
     
  4. PatrickT

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    I wonder what the liberal media should be called when they refuse to report news until everyone in the country has already heard about it?
     
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    stjames1_53 Banned

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    so you arbitrarily support what you don't know......
    here, just for you:
    [video=youtube;G790p0LcgbI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G790p0LcgbI[/video]
    or
    http://news.yahoo.com/video/video-obamacare-architect-calling-americans-141740321.html
    or
    [video=youtube;9vN5lWaB-co]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpag e&v=9vN5lWaB-co[/video]

    as usual, you know nothing about us...or what really happens here.................the usual Lib rant....I don't know about that, but I'll put my two cents worth in.....keep the change, buddy

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    ...how 'bout "LATE" :roflol:
     
  6. logical1

    logical1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Face it libs no matter how much you claim it is not true and smoke screen, the MSM and their management have their collective heads under Obama's coat tails. They have long ceased being an honest media out lets, and are really becomming a laughing stock. Thats why they are losing viewers all the time to Fox.
     
  7. TomFitz

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    That's mainly because there isn't a Gruber controversy.

    This is a manufactured campaign.

    Oh, and here's a Gruber quote for you that you won't find on a right wing blog, or see on Fox Noise!

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...gruber_s_obamacare_comments_is_justified.html
     
  8. Yosh Shmenge

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    The Titanic never sank. We never landed on the moon. The Holocaust never happened. The world is not round. The earth is only 6,000 years old................there's nothing controversial about what Jonathan Gruber has been bragging about.
    Yeah, that fits right in.
     
  9. TomFitz

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    I was wondering where BrightFart cribbed this from. Both they style of writing and the detail of content are far more sophisticated than is typical of right trash bloggery in general and of Brightbart in particular.

    This quote looked like it actually came from a real newspaper.

    And it did. The Washington Post, which Breightfart cribbed without attribution.

    Oh, and this description of how Gruber leveraged his economic model is very typical in government, regardless of ideology. How do you think ALEC functions??????
     
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    Their voting base doesn't care if Obama called them stupid. As long as they get their Obama phones and free stuff they don't care.
     
  11. TomFitz

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    If you understand how government works, that's true.
     
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    Lol, you called someone a partisan hack.
     
  13. Yosh Shmenge

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    If you are claiming that there is nothing controversial
    about the admission that the people of America were cheated and the Obama regime played them for suckers then I have to agree.
    That's what many of us have contended all along.
     
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    Well, aside from the attractive talking heads, MSNBC is even worse.
     
  15. TomFitz

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    The American people weren't cheated. He was making observations regarding the arcane way in which legislation is drafted.

    Obamacare is pretty much what it was sold as being. A way to get millions of people affordable health insurance and begin the process of shifting the US health care system away from the fee for service business model.

    I didn't get my "news" on Obamacare from talk radio screamers or Fox. After all, it was right wing media that was constantly trying to mislead its audience about the law, with constant nonsense about non existant government takeovers and equally non existant death panels.

    I read the newspapers and listened to what the experts said. What I got was exactly what I expected to get, and it has worked as I expected it to work (well, in my case, BTW).

    And no, I don't view his remarks as particularly alarming. I know how the process actually works dynamically, and I also know that the average person sitting in front of Fox Noise has no clue.

    Gruber isn't a public figure, and he isn't tactful. That's about it.
     
  16. Lee S

    Lee S Moderator Staff Member Past Donor

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    Just a bit of an observation. If Obamacare wasn't a failure, leftists wouldn't be trying to attribute it to Romney or the Heritage Foundation. If Obamacare actually wasn't an embarrassment to the left, it would be completely owned by the Democrats, beings how not a single Republican voted for the ACA.
     
  17. Riot

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    Their plan was to make it the least transparent as possible so we wouldn't truly know what's in it. From the most transparent administration. Lol. Lies and more lies from this dirt bag president. Just like the TPT. Americans don't need to know what's in it. They are too dumb to have the info that will rule their lives. What a lying hypocrite.
     
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    Wasn't it Obama that promised to have ALL of the obamacare negotiation on CSPAN ? Now we know why he lied about that too. He thinks American are too stupid to know and wanted to hide this crap of a law. A law built on lies from day one.
    Obama said during his campaign he was against a mandate. What a piece of crap. I hope he can't sleep at night for his lies. I doubt it though. He takes joy in lying to us.
     
  19. Dale Cooper

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    Beckel's defense is.............Viet Nam?????????



    Looks like a 2-year old got control of someone's keyboard.
     
  20. Yosh Shmenge

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    If people supported Obama Care, and the politicians that pushed it, based on the promises repeated over, and over, and over again by every member of the democrat party (You can keep your doctor, you can keep your medical coverage, you will actually save money every year with Obama Care) then, hell yes! They were cheated.

    He was observing how dumb people could be exploited by a government that valued "lack of transparency" so their agenda could be furthered. Is that arcane? Or do most people suspect
    that's exactly how things are run?

    Wow! Shocking.

    He confirms what the majority of people already thought about Obama Care.
    It's been a scam from the start and all it's selling points have turned out to be lies!
     
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    It is a pure racket, and shines a light directly on the shady relationship academic grantees and contractors have with government, which explains lots of their leftism, not ideals or principles, but pure self-interest. This is something you will NEVER see reported in compliant MSM, and explains EXACTLY where much of the leftosphere originates, grantees and contractors protecting their own grafty self-interest under window dressing of concern for "the poor, the children, income and wealth inequality." Each bureau, large contractor and govt employee union employs "public relations" and marketing staff whose job it is to forward statist/leftist positions in places like this. This explains why we see so many leftist blogs like rawstory and huffpuff linked in threads on this forum daily. It's a truly nasty business of pure manipulative propaganda that needs light shined on it. The internet is doing that but needs more time. When the American taxpayer becomes fully aware of this, there WILL BE backlash. There is absolutely no good reason for government at all levels to employ 17% of the workforce:

    http://www.prepareandprosper.net/how-many-americans-work-in-government-would-you-believe-40-million/
     
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    I am not aware that anyone on the left is trying to distance themselves from the Affordable Care Act.

    Given that the prospect of repealing it is near zero, it's hard to see where you dreamed that idea up. If Obamacare was actually "an embarrasment to the left" as you claim, there would be no trouble finding the votes to override a Presidential veto of a repeal.

    And the roots of the ACA ARE in the Heritage Foundation's proposal and in Romneycare. That's fact.

    Oh, and since one of the GOP's mantras is "repeal and replace", I note that we've waited nearly five years for the GOP to tell us what "replace" should be.
     
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    Give it a rest! GEORGE W. BUSH 'SOLD', manipulated, rigged the data to take us to IRAQ and OVERTLY lied for 6 years to keep us in IRAQ. BOGUS intelligence was SOLD TO STUPID PEOPLE and we were lied to about progress all along. STUPID PEOPLE still don't know what it COST IN MONEY and BODY BAGS (ours and theirs). STUPID PEOPLE are still lying about it today. And on this board!! Bush's 'SALES JOB' to STUPID PEOPLE KILLED A MILLION IRAQIS and that doesn't include our OWN. And people on YOUR SIDE bought it hook line and IED. At least OBAMA'S 'sale' will attempt to keep people alive!! How STUPID are you or think WE ARE??
     
  24. Sanskrit

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    And here (and elsewhere in the thread) we see "Stage 3" diffusion and projection, as predicted, BUSHDIDIT BUSHDIDIT BUSHDIDIT! My crystal ball is shiny today.
     
  25. PatriotNews

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    So you are worried about plagerism? Which quote came from the Washington Post?

    And don't get upset at the person who just bilked you out of your money, defend him because it's just typical government fraud.
     

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