{"id":10782,"date":"2013-10-24T16:18:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T23:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10782"},"modified":"2013-10-24T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T23:24:42","slug":"making-a-bullshit-mountain-out-of-a-moronic-molehill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10782","title":{"rendered":"OBAMA SCARE: Making A Bullshit Mountain Out Of A Moronic Molehill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News has been engaged in a massive disinformation campaign against the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) for going on three years now. After all that time, and having exhausted the considerable creative resources that came up with twelve \u201cPants on Fire\u201d<\/em> lies<\/a> about the program, Fox\u2019s desperation is showing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The right-wing’s Fright Offensive<\/a> over ObamaCare keeps getting more deranged every day. If they aren’t spreading fears of getting victimized by hackers, or the horrors of Americans voting, or the return of the Zombie ACORN, then it’s threats of ObamaCare prisons and gun registries.<\/p>\n

News Corpse previously reported<\/a> the utterly inane allegation that the ObamaCare website contained an invisible contract that granted the government an unfettered right to spy on health insurance consumers. Of course, as any freshman law student could tell you, there is no such thing as an enforceable, invisible contract. The gist of the complaint was that there was language secretly inserted into the website’s source code that could not be seen but nevertheless bound users to an agreement that they have “no reasonable expectation of privacy.”<\/em> However, this “ghost”<\/em> language was actually removed with the use of HTML comment tags by the site\u2019s programmers rendering it inoperative.<\/p>\n

The mental deficients pushing this notion are getting way too wrapped up in Halloween. Unfortunately, amongst those imbeciles is at least one member of Congress, the dishonorable GOP Rep. Joe Barton of Texas (where else?). In a hearing<\/a> today investigating the shortcomings of the ObamaCare website implementation, Barton asked representatives of the software contractor about the “hidden”<\/em> code that he said violated the law. With a flair for both ignorance and panic he yelped “The privacy section <\/a>on the ObamaCare website says your privacy will be protected. The hidden source code seems to say, ‘just kidding.'”<\/em> He later added “That’s Obamacare in a nutshell. It says one thing on the surface and says something totally different behind the scenes.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Wrong! The hidden source code says nothing at all because — it’s hidden, and invisible text has no legal force or effect. In all likelihood, one of the programmers probably copied a block of text from a common privacy policy and then edited out the parts that don\u2019t apply. But Barton compounded his misunderstanding by posting<\/a> on his Facebook page after the hearing that the so-called hidden waiver “means it is an intentional policy decision of the Obama administration to deceive the American public.”<\/em> Wrong again!<\/p>\n

Not to be left out, Breitbart News editor, John Nolte, wrote a column about the congressional hearing under the headline “Hidden In Obamacare Site: Applicants Surrender Right To Privacy.”<\/em> In the column he added his own chunk of stupid saying “[T]he fact that you are giving up your right to privacy is hidden in source code. […] The fact that the government is hiding the fact that you are giving up your right to privacy should be a major media scandal. But it won’t be.”<\/em> BreitBrat John is right about it not being a major media scandal, but only because he’s wrong about everything else he wrote.<\/p>\n

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Finally, Fox News weighed in with a report by correspondent John Roberts who said that this is “another step down the rabbit hole of ‘Big Data’ […] As we’ve learned, source code in the web site’s terms and conditions states that users have “no reasonable expectation of privacy.”<\/em> Roberts hasn’t learned anything at all, nor have his viewers. And apparently none of these grown men in the press or politics has as much technology savvy as a fourteen year old WoW gamer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fox News has been engaged in a massive disinformation campaign against the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) for going on three years now. After all that time, and having exhausted the considerable creative resources that came up with twelve \u201cPants on Fire\u201d lies about the program, Fox\u2019s desperation is showing. 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