AUDIO EXPLOSIVE: BREITBART EXPLAINS JOURNOLIST

David Weigel was a writer for the Washington Post blog and he was assigned to cover the conservative beat and report on it. Weigel also belonged to JourNolist, which is a group of 400 journalists who are supposed to be able to communicate with each other confidentially about issues and stories they cover. Any journalist communicating to the group is supposed to feel comfortable their words will not be made public.

Weigel learned the hard way that such assumptions are not warranted. JourNolist is headed by far left ideologue, Ezra Klein, who writes for the Post. In an interview with WIBC in Indianapolis, Andrew Breitbart explains that Weigel was outed because he didn't conform with the ideology of the 400. Breitbart is offering $100,000 to anyone who can deliver him the JourNoList archives.

WASHINGTON POST'S EZRA KLEIN LOWERS BAR ON HIMSELF

Thanks to Verum Serum posting a video of Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein speaking to a group in July, 2008, we were able to witness Klein expressing his true beliefs about wanting a single payer (government run) health care solution. He even explained why he didn't publicly state those beliefs - people wouldn't want it. That video may have signified Klein's low water mark.

That is, until now.

While appearing on MSNBC's Countdown on Thursday, March 11th, Klein actually lauded the prospect of Democrats using the Slaughter strategy to pass health care as an example of "consistent innovation". Yes, he cheered the blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution as a noble endeavor. His entire quote via NewsBusters:

....the one thing that I would say about House and Senate and congressional processes that it is a process of consistent innovation. That it`s never been done until it`s been done. And all sorts of things are invented at the time.

Reconciliation had never been used to increase the deficit before Bush did it for the tax cuts. You can go on and on down the line where, you know, in response to differing circumstances and our politics changes, they figure out a way to do things and then it becomes a norm in the future from that. So, that they haven`t done, it doesn`t mean they won`t.

I'd say Klein has hit a new low by championing potentially criminal and impeachable offenses. It all goes back to that ends-justify-the-means mentality of Saul Alinsky.

Here's the clip from 2008 via Verum Serum

VIDEOS: VERUM SERUM REELS IN EZRA KLEIN

I guess the Washington Post's Ezra Klein simply couldn't help himself. He was caught red-handed admitting that the Public Option in Obamacare is a trojan horse for single payer (government run healthcare) on a video from July of 2008. While on a panel, he admitted that the plan was "sneaky" and that even though its architects couldn't admit it publicly, Klein would.

Klein is one of those leftists with a big vocabulary who lacks the ability to understand where money comes from. These people are truly astounding.

First, as a refresher, watch this short clip from August and look for the segment that includes Ezra Klein.



Now, to flesh out Ezra Klein's position, watch this video and listen for his reference to a "sneaky strategy" at the end.



This video actually prompted a response from Klein, who had engaged both VERUM SERUM and Ed Morissey at Hot Air, who got into an interesting debate with Klein after POSTING THIS. Here is an excerpt of Klein's response to the claim that he advocates a "sneaky" strategy (as the video clearly indicates):

Actually, that’s not my view unless the public plan can use Medicare bargaining rates. But put that aside. Conservatives have an Underpants Gnomes-theory of how liberals mean to achieve single payer. It looks something like this:

1) With 60 votes in the Senate and a hugely popular new president, Democrats labor to reform the health-care system and manage, barely, to create a public insurance option by promising up-and-down that it wouldn’t have any government-provided advantages over private health insurance plans. This is about competition, they swear.

2) ????

3) The United States Senate votes to outlaw private health insurance.

I really don’t understand it. Morrissey isn’t wrong to say that many liberals would like a single-payer system. But there is nothing in Barack Obama’s plan that would enact such a thing and nothing in the political jockeying we’ve seen thus far that should make anybody think such a thing is possible.

Pure gibberish. Medicare bargaining rates?

Hey Ezra, how about allowing insurance companies to work in ALL STATES? This would necessarily drive down the cost of health care because it would create competition that you claim to champion (when you're not speaking of "sneaky" strategies).

The best thing Klein could do is come forward, admit that he's been busted, start arguing for what he truly believes, and stop being an advocate for "sneaky" things.

Again, the left simply doesn't understand where money comes from.

Be sure to read the WHOLE PIECE at Verum Serum (and follow the links to watch the back and forth between Klein and Morissey).