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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/paul-krugman-joe-scarborough-census-obamacareKrugman Rips Scarborough's 'Vile' Claim Of Census Cooking The Books On Obamacare
Sahil Kapur April 16, 2014, 5:04 PM EDT
In a blog post Wednesday, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman took an aggressive swiped "talk show hosts" who "literally know nothing" about health insurance data-collecting and yet accuse the U.S. Census Bureau of trying to "cook the books" on Obamacare.
He didn't mention him by name, but Krugman was referring to Joe Scarborough. He linked to this article about the MSNBC host making that exact claim on his show Wednesday morning, one day after it was reported that the Census would change how they measured insurance coverage rates (which angered many Republicans).
"You can argue that the Census decision to change its health-insurance questionnaire starting with the 2013 data wasnt such a good idea in fact, I know a number of health care experts who are dismayed," wrote Krugman, a liberal columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist. "But its really quite vile to have talk-show hosts who quite literally know nothing about the field, other than that theyre against covering the uninsured, casually accusing Census of cooking the books to support Obamacare."
(Link in the original.)
Here's what Scarborough said: "Listen, the White Houses on both sides do their best to cook the books... This is a particularly clumsy effort."
The headline of Krugman's blog post? "Obamacare Truthers at MSNBC."
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Krugman Rips Scarborough's 'Vile' Claim Of Census Cooking The Books On Obamacare (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2014
OP
They're flailing wildly. They see their advantage on this issue, going up in smoke. Whaddya do?
Tarheel_Dem
Apr 2014
#1
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)1. They're flailing wildly. They see their advantage on this issue, going up in smoke. Whaddya do?
I'm still waiting for our M$M to make the same kind of fuss about the program hitting it's target, as they did about a glitchy website.
Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)2. Joey Scar is beyond stupid,
ladjf
(17,320 posts)3. Scar is stupid, vain, and mean. That's a bad combination of
personality traits. nt