part of this project, too, is there a fundamental desire for conservatism to be anti-science. if you get rid of science, there s a whole cascading impact as to what government can do and based on what. it allows everybody to have their own set of facts here. and i think also, part of it is, if they think it gets liberals goats, on some level. that s part of it too. part of the strange mural world of climate on the right, i think. in some ways, i think they end up in right-wing outlets, covering the issue more than we do in liberal outlets. it is sexier and more fun to mock and to say, oh, look at this! than to be like, we are so screwed, america! i don t want to start the show that way. it s much easier to have a conversation with somebody and say, look out your window, there s no climate change. you need a bigger date to set than a weekend. but they are on this beat in a way that i would say even the mainstream media isn t,
absolutely. and darrell issa last month, he wasn t having a hearing on global change, but he was saying someone who didn t like the answer, you need to watch more fox news. that s where you need to get your information. part of this project, too, is there a fundamental desire for conservatism to be anti-science. if you get rid of science, there s a whole cascading impact as to what government can do and based on what. it allows everybody to have their own set of facts here. and i think also, part of it is, if they think it gets liberals goats, on some level. that s part of it too. part of the strange mural world of climate on the right, i think. in some ways, i think they end up in right-wing outlets, covering the issue more than we do in liberal outlets. it is sexier and more fun to mock and to say, oh, look at this! than to be like, we are so screwed, america! i don t want to start the show that way. it s much easier to have a conversation with somebody and say, look out
news hysteria way, it was actually a disaster. a completely broken, smoldering ruin, which you can learn about even on the regular old lamestream media. reporter: in the first months, only 110,000 americans signed up. tonight the numbers are finally out, and they confirm the new health insurance program is in big trouble. just 27,000 people have enrolled on the federal website, healthcare.gov. the numbers tell a grim story, frighteningly enrollment. barely enough people to fill one football stadium. that was the story of obamacare in november. but now, it is working. with enrollment in private plans up from about 100,000 in those first dark days of implementation in october, to more than double that in november, to more than 1.7 million in december. altogether, when you add in folks who are newly eligible for medicaid and the under 26 crowd,
warm side that are that seem directly related to the fact that the overall climate is warming. and it does, i think, get harder and harder for people to, you know, not believe they re line. i think so, but the argument is one that is rather nuanced. it s statistical. you know, what are the chances that this is going to happen that many more times. you know, it s increased and it increases more and more each year. that s a much harder case to make, to a layperson, then there s snow there. sam seder, eric boler, thank you very much. coming up next, what obamacare looks like in living color, ahead. we re gonna be late. oh are we early? [ male announcer ] commute your way
it might have been when scott brown was elected to the senate right in the middle of the health reform debate. or maybe after the president s first miserable debate performance of 2012 campaign, when suddenly everybody was declaring his hopes for a second term dead. it s hard to say. but president obama in his relatively short career in politics has had his political obituary written time and time again. from the early primary analysis in 2007, when the pundit class saw just no way for him to beat hillary clinton, to the scott brown special election, to the tea party congress in 2010, to that rough spell after the first debate in 2012. but time and time again, when things have looked bleak, he has always pulled off whatever it was nobody thought he d be able to pull off. today, it s starting to look like obamacare is the ultimate example of that pattern playing out. two months ago, obamacare was a massive, flaming disaster. and not just in that special fox