Discussion: One Chart Explains Fox News's Obsession With Gruber-Gate

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UnSKEw that POLL and YOu’LL fIND that EVERYOne is TALKIng about GrUBer as MUCH as THEY arE BEnGHAzi. BEnGRUBer!1!1!!1!one!!1!!!

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How can it be fair and balanced if FOX is on the left side of the chart?

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That graph definitely needs to be reformatted!

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“One Chart Explains Fox News’s Obsession With Gruber-Gate”

The chart doesn’t “explain” shit about their obsession, merely ILLUSTRATES it…perhaps QUANTIFIES it. Bad word choice. That being said, as far as explanations go, we really don’t need one. We know what their tantrum is all about.

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The guy described insurance…BFD.

It clearly illustrates that Dylan Scott can copy/paste a graph from the Politifact website.

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When Gruber spoke of “stupid American voters,” he was describing the drooling retards who watch Faux News.

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And Conservatives say it’s Liberals who are thin-skinned. lol

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On the more troll ridden sites, they go thru great pains to explain that Gruber was calling librul voters stupid. So, to boil it down, the Teabaggers are into another hissy fit because Gruber called libruls stupid ?

His name is Jonathan, shortened to “Jon”. On the front page you spell his name “John”.

For a guy getting so much attention you should spell his name correctly.

Don’t get so pickie, Its TPM your talking about.

I so pity the poor soul who was forced to watch that much Fox News in order to count the mentions of Gruber’s name. Fortunately, the Affordable Care Act of which Gruber spoke so inarticulately will allow that individual to receive care for whatever damage watching that much Fox may have inflicted upon them.

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Conservatives were already opposed to the law. The only possible group of “stupid voters” was anyone on the fence. Gruber could only have been referring to other democrats.

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Right, there is really bad English being used on the internets these days.

Nobody really wants their dirty laundry exposed and when that happens, the preference is to not talk about it that much.

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Don’t get so pickie, Its TPM your talking about.
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Picky and You’re …have a nice day

I don’t recall a referendum on the ACA, so I don’t think that this went to voters in anything but the really abstract sense. The concerns that I’ve heard are mostly around the PR/attack machine exposure. So, “don’t word X in a way that it will be portrayed as a ‘tax’ since that’ll just result in the usual “THEYZ RAISING YOUR TAXES!!!”” sort of stuff. And in that sense, it’s right given how broken our media is (“DEATH PANELS!!!”, or “THEY’RE GOING TO CUT YOUR MEDICARE!!!” anyone?)

I’m looking at the graph and see no explanation. Why are they obsessed? The graph doesn’t tell me why, it just demonstrates that they are. Not trying to be pedantic, but nothing about that chart gives me any insight into why the GOP behaves the way they do, just that they demonstrably do so.

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