{"id":10353,"date":"2017-07-16T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T13:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10353"},"modified":"2017-07-16T08:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T13:44:40","slug":"how-to-discredit-yourself-in-one-easy-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/16\/how-to-discredit-yourself-in-one-easy-step\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Discredit Yourself In One Easy Step"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pacific Research Institute<\/a><\/strong><\/em> president Sally Pipes, as reported<\/a> (approvingly) by Deroy Murdock in National Review<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI support Cruz\u2019s and Lee\u2019s idea,\u201d Pacific Research Institute<\/a> president Sally Pipes tells me. \u201cGiving people the freedom to choose a plan that meets their needs and that they can afford is the best solution today.\u201d The author of The Way Out of Obamacare<\/a><\/em> added: \u201cThe American people voted in November for the repeal and replacement of Obamacare. The law is in a \u2018death spiral\u2019 <\/strong>and needs to be replaced. …”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bold mine. As has has been noted by numerous commentators, and, finally, the Trump Administration’s experts on it themselves, the ACA<\/strong><\/em> is not in a death spiral<\/a>. And since Pipes leads her Institute, that casts doubt on all of their work.<\/p>\n

Look, lies have consequences, and while there are some limited circumstances where lies must be employed, I tend to limit that to wartime, and this is not wartime. For years the libertarians have evinced concerns over the more subtle effects of single-payer systems in terms of the R&D efforts on new therapies. In my view, in isolation these are legitimate concerns, worthy of discussion and concern[1]<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

But if the context is that of brazen lies, then it’s much more difficult to take the liar seriously. After all, either they’re profoundly uninformed (and, so, technically not a lie), or they are misrepresenting reality for some hidden agenda. Neither is trustworthy. And so Pipes has discredited herself. Probably time to go into retirement.<\/p>\n

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\n1<\/sup>Although libertarians rarely, if ever, acknowledge the critical role of government-funded R&D in the development of new products, whether they’re pharmaceuticals or electronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pacific Research Institute president Sally Pipes, as reported (approvingly) by Deroy Murdock in National Review: \u201cI support Cruz\u2019s and Lee\u2019s idea,\u201d Pacific Research Institute president Sally Pipes tells me. \u201cGiving people the freedom to choose a plan that meets their needs and that they can afford is the best solution \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10355,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353\/revisions\/10355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}