I rarely just post a video from a news show, but Jonah Goldberg’s rant yesterday on Special Report with Bret Baier was in fact such a crystalline analysis of the mendacity of Jonathan Gruber (and by extension of liberal journalists and the White House itself) that you should take a listen if you missed it yesterday.
What is particularly arresting is Jonah’s idea that Gruber and his New Class peers are profiteers. Gruber has become a multimillionaire by helping foist a complicated system on the American public and then collecting consulting fees to help people institute the unnecessary and unwanted complexity Gruber and people like him have engineered.
Jonah talked about how journalists went along with Gruber’s “being touted around through a transmission belt of liberal journalists, who all are all pretending to be objective analysts too, quoting each other, reaffirming each other, all with the help of the White House which went along with this soup to nuts – a process which this guy says was all about lies and misleading the American people.”
I urge you to listen to the whole clip, but here is some of it:
In a lot of ways, this spectacle represents not just everything that’s wrong with the Obama administration, it’s everything wrong with liberalism and a lot that’s wrong with America itself.
You’ve got this guy who is pretending to be an objective independent analyst, who’s got huge amounts of skin in the game in terms of money he can make off of consulting fees, but also of the prestige being involved and the speeches he could do which haven’t been tallied into these numbers — anyway, it’s millions of dollars – being touted around through a transmission belt of liberal journalists, who all are all pretending to be objective analysts too, quoting each other, reaffirming each other, all with the help of the White House which went along with this soup to nuts – a process which this guy says was all about lies and misleading the American people. And then when caught about it, the same administration tries to dismiss him as if he was just some sort of random White House intruder. The whole thing stinks.
Indeed it does.