Note the difference in the two styles of journalism. I would think that both are stories, 1) they lied about what they were selling the public and 2) because they knew they could sell it because "Americans were stupid"
Politico
An Obamacare Gotcha Moment
I read Politico's entire story and maybe I missed it but where's the "stupid" quote. I also noticed that Politico bring up "two year old video" and Mitt Romney to mitigate the damage.One of Obamacare’s chief architects, MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, just handed conservatives a gotcha moment.
Health law opponents and conservative academics are highlighting a two-year-old video of Gruber — who has advised both the Obama administration and then-Gov. Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health reform effort — in which he seems to agree that the law’s health insurance subsidies can’t be awarded through federal-run exchanges, only through the state-run markets.
Why do they need to mitigate the damage? Maybe because they are biased?
Fox
New tape of ObamaCare architect calling American people 'stupid'ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber apparently doesn't think much of the intelligence of the American people.
A new tape has surfaced showing Gruber, once again, claiming the health care law's authors took advantage of the "stupid" American public.
The tape, played on Fox News' "The Kelly File," showed Gruber speaking at an October 2013 event at Washington University in St. Louis.
Referring to the so-called "Cadillac tax" on high-end health plans, he said: "They proposed it and that passed, because the American people are too stupid to understand the difference."
Fox brings up the fact that he called Americans "stupid" and that the Cadillac tax was true.