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Or was he just being 'glib'? Jonathan Gruber told students he 'helped write' Obamacare [video]

Last month, Nancy Pelosi claimed she had no idea who Jonathan Gruber was. “He didn’t help write our bill,” she said. President Obama referred to Gruber as “some adviser who never worked on our staff.” At yesterday’s hearing, Gruber didn’t try to correct them, insisting that if the White House chose to refer to him as an adviser, then that’s all he was.

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Except that’s not what he told his students at MIT:

Transcript:

“Full disclaimer, I’m going to describe it objectively, but I helped write it. So I’m gonna, I’ll be objective — I’ll try to be objective — but full disclaimer, I was involved in writing the legislation.”

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/542798708153540611

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/542798862315175936

https://twitter.com/zhanover/status/542799423500460033

Exit question:

https://twitter.com/Aaron_RS/status/542799319779127296

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