{"id":11087,"date":"2013-12-17T14:06:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11087"},"modified":"2013-12-17T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:06:37","slug":"gop-congressman-to-obamacare-administrator-you-need-to-watch-more-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11087","title":{"rendered":"GOP Congressman To ObamaCare Administrator: You Need To Watch More Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the ongoing campaign by Republicans to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare), GOP representative Darrell Issa (R-Tea Party) held another in his series of carnival side shows he passes off for congressional hearings. On this occasion Issa took his show<\/a> on the road to Texas, the state with the highest number of residents without health insurance.<\/p>\n

During the sham hearing Issa browbeat Dr. Randy Farris, regional administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, asking him to answer for allegations raised by a video showing ObamaCare navigators allegedly giving out unlawful advice. The video<\/a> was the work of serial liar and convicted scammer, James O’Keefe, and bore all the familiar trademarks of his dishonest reputation. It was heavily edited and it conspicuously left out any footage of navigators performing properly. The victims in the O’Keefe video were not even navigators. They were trainees, so it would not be surprising if they got some things wrong.<\/p>\n

That didn’t stop Issa and his road company from tarring everyone associated with the navigator program nationwide with assertions of illegality. It’s an absurd extension of guilt that would be equivalent to declaring that all of WalMart’s two million employees were guilty of shortchanging customers after a biased video was shown of three or four of them doing it. If Issa encountered such a scenario would he call for shutting down every WalMart in the country, as he is doing with his call to shut down ObamaCare? Not likely.<\/p>\n

There are thousands of people participating in the navigator program, and like any other large scale enterprise, some participants are not going to perform according to standards. Even Fox News is susceptible to this inescapable fact of human nature. After all, they have a notorious record of criminal activity from within their ranks. For instance:<\/p>\n