Special Ed doing his best Baghdad Bob impression.
Via Noah Rothman:
. . . But if you were watching MSNBC on Wednesday afternoon, you saw Ed Schultz deliver an entirely different take on those same figures. After issuing a friendly yet terse admonishment of former President Bill Clinton for buying into what he called Republican “talking points” on the ACA that have “infiltrated” the Democratic Party, he went on to describe how the enrollment figures were actually encouraging.
“Obamacare is about making t market better,” he added. “Getting rid of junk insurance.”
“This is about reform. It’s not about appeasing people when they get upset when they get a cancellation notice in the mail saying ‘you got lousy insurance,’” Shultz exclaimed.
Turning to the enrollment figures, the MSNBC host put a brave face on the situation.
“Holy smokes, we’re 100 percent higher than yesterday?” he declared. “And that’s just for October.”
“But here’s the kicker,” Schultz added. “Nearly one million people have been approved for a private plan under Obamacare.”
“They are still shopping. They haven’t chosen. It’s the shopping season,” he concluded, indicating that the enrollment figures were not where supporters of the health care reform law would like. “This was the way the law was designed to work. They give you options. Nobodies holding gun to your head that you have to do it in the next six hours.”