The New York Times might resent the impression that they merely recycle and re-sell warmed-over Obama talking points, but James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal displayed the echo under the headline “Our Fearless Independent Press.”
“It seems so cynical to want to take coverage away from millions of people; to take care away from people who need it the most; to punish millions with higher costs of care and unravel what’s now been woven into the fabric of America.” – President Obama, June 9
“The Affordable Care Act, which has helped millions of people get health care, is now fully woven into the nation’s social fabric. As President Obama said Tuesday, there is something ‘deeply cynical about the ceaseless, endless, partisan attempts’ to roll back the progress already made.” – unsigned staff editorial, New York Times, June 10
Obama did refer to cynicism more than once in his June 9 address to Obamacare supporters at the Catholic Health Association:
There’s something, I have to say, just deeply cynical about the ceaseless, endless partisan attempts to roll back progress. I mean, I understood folks being skeptical or worried before the law passed and there wasn’t a reality there to examine. But once you see millions of people of having health care, once you see that all the bad things that were predicted didn't happen, you’d think that it would be time to move on.
It would seem the Times editorial-page staff is a dramatically less "independent" group than they were when they raged against the Bush administration.
