Blogger John Sexton astutely connected the dots this afternoon on the role that partisan liberal “policy analysts” and activist “journalists” have played in whitewashing deadly bureaucratic decisions at the Department of Veterans Affairs and masking the truth about the Obamacare disaster.
His launching point: A New York Times piece this weekend on the longstanding complaints vets have had about interminable wait times.
This VA piece could have been written any time in the last 10 years by any health care wonk. http://t.co/v7UnKOhAiw
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
Left-leaning political operatives masquerading as neutral analysts turned a blind eye for years.
Instead we got lefty wonks praising the excellence of the VA and mostly ignoring wait time problems.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
Sense a pattern? Big time:
We've already seen this same pattern with Obamacare. Everyone knew it wouldn't really save $2,500 per family.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
All the lefty wonks knew, as Pelosi said last week, that the public option was a move toward single payer. They kept quiet.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
Right now, we have the same "silence of the wonks" with regard to employer dumping. Ezekiel Emanuel thinks it's coming…
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
But you have silly pieces like this one in the NY Times saying the administration is preventing it: http://t.co/ifawGPVR9s
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
If you read that piece carefully, you learn this is actually a policy put in place last Sep. Nothing has changed.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
Strategy: Marginalize the truth-tellers until the truth can no longer be denied.
At every step, conservative pundits are treated as charlatans and conspiracy theorists until the moment we realize they were right.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
Textbook example: “If you like your plan, you can keep it.”
Here's the pattern exemplified at Politifact where the same issue goes from "True" to "Lie of the Year" http://t.co/w7hkLm6kI7
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
And another example:
We saw the same pattern over whether or not Obamacare was a tax. Obama himself said no…until SCOTUS saved his bacon by saying yes.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
Progressive media has made sure almost nothing that harms move toward socialized medicine gets covered.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
The only exception was the initial rollout mess and only then because it was such a total disaster, there was no way to spin it.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
But even with the rollout, you had lefty wonks claiming there was a "November surge" when enrollment was still pathetic.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
You had wonks claiming Obamacare was following the pattern of Romneycare using bogus figures.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
Scourge of the lib wonks, continued:
You had wonks claiming Obamacare enrollment was following the pattern of Medicare part D when it wasn't even close: http://t.co/sMhq7syHlA
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
We're going to see this pattern repeat ad nauseam until we get where the wonks think we should be.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
To close where I began, this NY Times piece could have been written any time in the past 10 years: http://t.co/v7UnKOhAiw
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 1, 2014
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