rollout, but many organizations at least raising the question about this seven million enrollment figure, how many people have actually paid. some not mentioning it at all including the network newscasts. now we re going to move into, i think, more difficult phase of trying to assess how the law is actually working, is it getting health costs down which was part of the original promise as opposed to playing the numbers game. julie: yep, and a huge scandal that hasn t made it much into the news until the hearings this week. yeah, i ve really been stunned. it is such an important scandal, about how many little coverage it s gotten relatively. my own theory here is there s no clear, identifiable villain. so you have mary barra taking over gm, she didn t know about this defective ignition switch which has resulted in 13 deaths. so you can t blame her. the federal regulators, a complete failure on their part to crack down on this company, but that stretches over both the obama and the pus
black. it doesn t fit the liberal narrative. the liberal story line. i will give you just one quick example. let s say george zimmerman in the trayvon martin case, let s say george zimmerman had tweeted a message saying he hates black people and then went on to kill trayvon martin, that would be proof all the proof you need that is he a racist and the media rightly would have been all over that yet, one of the thugs in oklahoma, allegedly, supposedly, i m sure it s true, tweeted that he hates white people, okay? have the media made a big deal out of that? no, because they are uncomfortable with that kind of bigotry. also an age difference though. the thugs involved in oklahoma and in spokane are teenagers and zimmerman was an adult. but that s not an excuse for not covering the story. see, look, i think what people don t stand is that the three network newscasts are still the flag ship newscast and set the tone for the whole organization. right. they only have 22
black. it doesn t fit the liberal narrative. the liberal story line. i will give you just one quick example. let s say george zimmerman in the trayvon martin case, let s say george zimmerman had tweeted a message saying he hates black people and then went on to kill trayvon martin, that would be proof all the proof you need that is he a racist and the media rightly would have been all over that yet, one of the thugs in oklahoma, allegedly, supposedly, i m sure it s true, tweeted that he hates white people, okay? have the media made a big deal out of that? no, because they are uncomfortable with that kind of bigotry. also an age difference though. the thugs involved in oklahoma and in spokane are teenagers and zimmerman was an adult. but that s not an excuse for not covering the story. see, look, i think what people don t stand is that the three network newscasts are still the flag ship newscast and set the tone for the whole organization. right. they only have 22
black. it doesn t fit the liberal narrative. the liberal story line. i will give you just one quick example. let s say george zimmerman in the trayvon martin case, let s say george zimmerman had tweeted a message saying he hates black people and then went on to kill trayvon martin, that would be proof all the proof you need that is he a racist and the media rightly would have been all over that yet, one of the thugs in oklahoma, allegedly, supposedly, i m sure it s true, tweeted that he hates white people, okay? have the media made a big deal out of that? no, because they are uncomfortable with that kind of bigotry. also an age difference though. the thugs involved in oklahoma and in spokane are teenagers and zimmerman was an adult. but that s not an excuse for not covering the story. see, look, i think what people don t stand is that the three network newscasts are still the flag ship newscast and set the tone for the whole organization. right. they only have 22
that. i think that s why rush limbaugh has 30 million listeners and the network newscasts have declined. at the end of the day, though, you balance this with an overall sunny optimism about america. how? it s fundamentally a very powerful country. it s a rich country. there s nothing wrong with it in my opinion that some leadership won t deal with. and the habit of american history is when it needs leadership, it gets it. very few people expected great things of abraham lincoln or either of the roosevelts, let alone a less glamorous personality like harry truman. many people disparaged ronald reagan as a rather limited intellectually limited actor but they were all very distinguished presidents and led effectively. we ll get back to that. all that s needed, it s conceptually simple and the playbook is well known. is for the elected leader of the country to say we have a serious crisis. these are the proportions of the crisis. this will happen if we don t deal with it.