At Georgetown, Bill Clinton Bashes Media for Unfavorable Obamacare Coverage
While speaking at Georgetown University, Bill Clinton worked hard to persuade his audience that Obamacare isn’t as bad as reports indicate.
It’s a good thing he likes to talk, as he has a lot of explaining to do.
In a long-winded speech on Wednesday at Georgetown University, former president Bill Clinton criticized the “political press” who, he says, are so often blinded by a “storyline” that they ignore reality, especially when it comes to Obamacare.
“One of the problems is, if a policymaker is a political leader and is covered primarily by the political press, there is a craving that borders on addictive to have a storyline,” said Clinton. “And then, once people settle on the storyline, there is a craving that borders on blindness, to shoehorn every fact, every development, everything that happens into the storyline, even if it’s not the story.”
Clinton went on to say that public policy is often “dimly understood,” and often “distrusted and disconnected from the consequences of the policies being implemented,” adding that he felt that most intensely in the development, the passage and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Funny, I don’t recall Clinton being critical of the media when they were being blinded by Democratic propaganda about Obamacare, and heartily endorsed its socialized medicine model as a panacea for our health care system.
The media’s trust of Obama’s and the Democratic Party’ s promises backfired on them as problems surfaced, requiring waivers, delays and extensions in an effort to try and make the law work.
Bill Clinton, speaking at Georgetown, Criticizes the Media for Unfavorable Obamacare Coverage (Accuracy In Academia)
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And then, once people settle on the storyline, there is a craving that borders on blindness, to shoehorn every fact, every development, everything that happens into the storyline, even if it’s not the story.”
You mean, like, “it’s just about sex” when he committed perjury?
Besides, Bill Clinton’s most famous foray into the medical field was when he told Juanita Broderick “you’d better put some ice on that” after savagely raping her (according to her account, which 20/20 found credible).
Oh it’s the media’s fault and not the fault of the gov for forcing the ACA on the public when the public said NO, created a horrid site for sign ups, lied about what the bill was and caused people who had insurance to loose it. Yeah, that sounds like it was the media’s fault! What was the media’s fault was that the media persisted in spreading the lies so that the public would favor the ACA and the skewering that would result from passing it.