The folks at MSNBC are so comfortable at this point repeating White House talking points they don’t even try to hide it.
On MSNBC Live Monday, substitute host Brian Shactman, after reading administration propaganda about ObamaCare, asked a Democratic Congresswoman – who is also a member of the White House strike team pushing said propaganda – “What are we doing to get that message out there a little more?” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Kendra Alleyne at CNSNews.com reports liberal Rep. Rosa DeLaura (D-Conn.) promoted the idea of a federal tax on soda pop. At a press conference Wednesday discussing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), she lamented that more nutrititious fruit juice is a much more expensive beverage.
“But I will tell you that if you’re paying $3.49 for juice and 79 cents for soda, if you are in a low-income family and you have to stretch the dollar, you don’t need a rocket scientist to tell you what you’re going to buy,” DeLauro said. “You’re going to go for the 79 cents. And maybe, quite frankly, one of the things that we ought to look at and one of the things we ought to consider is a soda tax."