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before we talk about republican reaction to this i want to talk about the media
coverage of what took place please i think the fact that one of the bigger
more interesting stories
initially i had
i'd write report huffington post up on my computer i was slight live streaming
c_n_n_ on my computer and it made television tuned to fox news to see who
would cover the south
initially
c_n_n_ reported that the mandate had been struck down as you can see in the
screenshots c_n_n_ individual mandate struck down supreme court finds measure
unconstitutional that was it about ten of three and eastern time okay at that
point rugs report was running something that's that
mandate gone
and fox news is also reporting that the insurance mandate was unconstitutional
then
i started seeing and actually started at that point starting to write my
commentary on what needs to happen next based on that
uh... but
almost immediately alloted a blog started posting that wait a second that
this is
this has been upheld basically the entire affordable care act has actually
been upheld and then by ten ten a_m_ both the c_n_n_ headline and the fox
news headline as well as the drudge report hadline had been removed c_n_n_
had gone to awaiting decision
and we actually saw drudge report headline that said mandate survives
as eight tax chief justice roberts joins the left of the court
court strikes down uh... in dayton down individual mandate uh...
objections
then it said the medicaid provision
is limited to but not invalidated annette by ten thirteen a m drugs report
reporting obama care stands
box news reporting
individual mandate
struck down
and then foxnews choosing to replace that headline in saying
supreme court strikes down medicare meant mandate
yet that was a really the story five things i hate to break it to you ***
and and and not not only was it not true even if it were true it wouldn't have
been the big story but as we saw the supreme court did not strike down the
medicare expansion mandate
any surprise that fox news
desperately grasping it anything they can
to show how bad this law was
and now how many thousands of people are who only caught that first have minor
going to be walking around on
x_ number of days or weeks thinking uh...
the darkest yet
what goodbye thing what happened here is that the rush to be first
left tons of media outlets just being flat out wrong the initial reports
saying
that under the commerce clause an individual mandate would be
unconstitutional
and that is that we've been reported as mandate struck down
of course then the court going on to say however
we just don't see any individual mandate sa as operating under the commerce
clause we see as a tax and as such
it is perfectly constitutional but i think that was on page forty four
right and the we camry forty four pages before reporting correctly
no of course that need to report at ten oh three right away even if it's
flat out wrong extra money
the c_n_n_ also ronan bush league or back in ninety thousand
i mean let's let's be honest here
i don't think anyone in the overall the administration
the house for the senate or the supreme court has read that
has read
before the senate before decision ivory
role may be no okay maybe not that the four decision but it certainly have not
read
belvoir carrots and tired units two thousand patient i_d_ that's for sure
and so there's a lot of uh... a lot of that going on