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Politico notices how bad Obamacare’s been.

Again.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 17th, 2012 at 08:00 PM  | 

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(H/T: Instapundit) So, Politico publishes this story called “Four hard truths of health care reform“ – which is Politico’s way of saying ‘Obamacare has been an unmitigated disaster, but we’re going to try to spin it as well as we can anyway’ – and there’s two reasons why the tone of said story is amazing in its effrontery. The first reason is the way that it presents the aforementioned ‘hard truths’ as if they had just only now been revealed unto the populace, instead of being pretty much known all along. Don’t believe me? Take a look: below is each ‘hard truth’ Politico documents.

  • “Some people won’t get to keep the coverage they like.”

NO! Really?

  • “Costs aren’t going to go down.”

NO! Really? NO! Really?

  • “It’s just a guess that the law can pay for itself.”

NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really?

  • ““The more they know, the more they’ll like it” isn’t happening.”

No! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really? NO! Really?

…and that’s just me. I’m hardly unique.

Then there’s the second reason why this story is amazing in its effrontery; if Politico wants to take this disingenuous a tone over Obamacare (particularly on how much it was, and would still be, hated) then it possibly should read its own freaking archives. After all, they wrote an article about the controversy (called “Democrats guess wrong on health care“) in September.

That would be September of 2010.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Am I being fair to Politico? Depends on how you define the word. What I’m doing is treating Politico as an unofficial, but very real, partisan ally of the Democrats over Obamacare. Which is perhaps mean of me, but as I grow older I grow ever more impatient with the idea of letting people pretend to objectivity when they have no real intent in actually being objective.

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  • DerKrieger

    …including the so-called mainstream media have contributed as much to the disaster that is Obamacare as the Democrat party. Their refusal to report the facts to the public is as bad as reporting outright falsehoods.

    Every day I read about another Obamacare outrage in “our” media that goes unreported. If the media would do it’s ^*%{] job and report the facts instead of carrying water for the Social-Democrats and their king the Left’s agenda would never get anywhere.

    Liberalism can’t stand the light of day and the Lefty media provides the cover of darkness it requires to metastasize like the cancer it is.

  • tngal

    Its not just an infatuation this time. Its almost like the real thing. Involving imported beer. Not the cheap stuff. We’ve got a biorythymic thing going. I hoped to bring attention to this story this morning, but alas Obamacare did not pique interest.

    Viewed it as a Politico Come-To-Jesus moment, if you will. On EE’s open thread.

    I could not believe Politico turned away from the Dem talking point of Obamacare is all unicorns and leprechans. The article actually pointed out the faults. And had the audacity to suggest those faults could come back to haunt the big O later. It mentioned Pelosi. And used real honest to goodness facts and figures to show it wasn’t going to work.

    I feel sorry for the author. Slipping this in at Politico. He’ll never work in DC again. He was a brave soul. He’s not going to make the revamped journolist.

    (Unless…Politico sees the writing on the wall and is trying to….no, leopards can’t change spots.)

    http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/03/16/the-anti-science-president-eers/#comment-177253

  • Locked and Loaded

    In their failure to do the job of a free press, they create and sell their own partisan lies. They are dirty and treacherous, a blight.

    The RedState member who coined the acronym SCUM (So-Called Unbiased Media), absolutely nailed it. I know he/she has been credited for it, but I can’t remember who it is. The term should become standard usage and replace MSM.

  • filobeddoe

    Once Mitt becomes our fearless nominee….you’re not going to hear Obamacare anymore. He wont even mention it.

  • johnt

    “Just think, all those Americans being forced into something gigantic, monstous, against their will.” “And all these years we’ve babbled to the fools about Privacy, a womans right to her body.”
    You can forget that, the lefty trash haven’t even made the connection

  • romeg

    No matter how meager the level of accomplishment or actual achievement. One must never point these failures and shortcomings out. It’s a matter of what the original intent was. He MEANT well so, so what if he fell short and continues to do so.

  • greyeagle

    I figured out a long time ago if Obama’s lips are moving, he is lying.

  • The_Gadfly

    They’re pretty sure they have the Presidency all wrapped up (and truth be told we seem to be doing our part to give them an insurance plan with the current race), and are probably turning their attention downstream. There they need a dose of realism or the Tea Party is likely to kick their booties again. Of course, they’ll spin it as “fixing the parts the Republicans broke the first time through” regardless of how big a lie that is.

  • circlegranch

    by Jack Cashill at www.americanthinker.com today.

    Yes, this may be a threadjack, but not entirely. This very important breaking story does reveal the attempted cover up by Politico during the ’08 campaign to bury the story that refuses to die, and so it is from the “Politico” byline above this is inserted. Finally, another news source besides World Net Daily is deciding to pay attention. (www.wnd.com has some interesting stories to be shared on Facebook and Twitter, as well as the above noted ‘Mailman’ article.)

  • edintexas

    Politico hasn’t been objective in a number of years. No surprise there.