Prof. Gruber is not unique. There are thousands of academics who have an expertise in one or another area. They are often called upon to give advice on public policy issues. They know more than voters, taxpayers, and elected officials on their pencil point area of academic endeavor. But what do these knowledgeable members of the elite do? They recognize that they are dealing with people who are effectively clueless about their subject matter. In this case economics, few politicians know much in that area. Though many politicians are lawyers few know much law, so it is not a surprise to find they are ignorant about areas they did not study in a reputable school. Experts can make it up as they go and lie all they want. And many of them do that. Who's to know? You might wonder if they are receiving millions of taxpayer dollars they might want to provide reliable truthful information. But they do not feel obligated to do that. Why should they share what they know? Even if they are paid to do so. This is my concern about experts. I began to recognize the problem when I attended lectures at Harvard University that were open to the public. Though I have a degree from Columbia University, Harvard University faculty and students treat me as if I was a high school dropout, which is some of what what the FBI says about me. So it is not unusual that I often find myself in a humorous situation being spoken to as if I was a moron by arrogant, pompous academic know-it-alls. Gruber is just one of many, who was exposed and ridiculed.
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Poor Gruber. Now he lives in a $1.12 million mansion in Lexington. It’s on Pleasant Street, but it wasn’t very pleasant yesterday for Goober.
He looks like an adult version of the kind of kid who had his lunch bag stomped on more than once by the bad boys.
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he was being pushed around not just by the evil Republican “haters,” as Goober calls everybody who’s angry at his remarks about “the stupidity of the American voters,” by which he really meant Obama voters.
No wonder Elijah Cummings was so angry, describing Goober’s remarks in front of various adoring college audiences as “stupid, I mean absolutely stupid … And they were
indeed insulting.”
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He reaped millions upon millions of dollars demolishing your health care, and now he pulls a Sgt. Schultz. He knows nothing. He even had the gall to claim he had no idea how much he’d made wrecking the U.S. health-care system. He kept telling the congressmen they could take up the issue of his greed-crazed profiteering spree with his “counsel.” He was trying to plead the Fifth without taking the Fifth.
In case you were wondering, his father was a professor too.
[. . .]
Republican congressman from Kentucky with two MIT degrees told him how embarrassing Goober had made it to be an MIT grad. A GOP rep from Georgia pointed out that 80 percent of his district had voted against Obama “so I guess we’re not the stupid voters you were talking about.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2014/12/carr_revenge_on_the_nerd
Carr: Revenge on the nerd
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
By: Howie Carr
Boston Herald
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How Cambridge is it? This arrogant Ph.D. gets paid millions to take a wrecking ball to the best health-care system in the world, then takes a victory lap around the country, making hundreds of thousands more to brag how he and the rest of the Obamatrons lied and got away it because of the “stupidity of the American voters.”
In other words, Obama voters. Because they’re the only ones who believed Obama when he said that if you liked your doctor you could keep him.
And now if you’re angry at Gruber’s appalling arrogance and hubris, you’re a “hater.”
No joke. It came out over the weekend. One of the health-care officials in Vermont, another state paying him a six-figure stipend to gut its medical system, sent Goober an email asking him to, uh, please explain.
“I am laying low on this,” Goober wrote back. “Anything I say will just feed the haters. I went on MSNBC yesterday and apologized but other than that I have been strongly advised to stay off the radar.”
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A majority of the congressmen on the panel are, you guessed it, haters. How scared are the Democrats of putting this poster boy for their insanity on display? The lame-duck Senate Democrats decided to release the “terror” report on CIA interrogations of Muslim terrorists this morning, at just about the time the Goober-man takes the stand.
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How bad is it going to be? The Obama administration has asked to have its witness this morning seated in a “separate panel” from the obnoxious Cambridge puke. The request noted that witnesses are “almost always afforded an opportunity” to shun someone as despised as Dr. Goober.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2014/12/carr_get_ready_for_jonathan_gruber_to_infect_obamacare?utm_campaign=bostonherald_trending_stories&utm_source=bostonherald&utm_medium=trending_stories
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
By: Howie Carr
Boston Herald
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