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September 25, 2017 02:48 PM UTC

Journalists Fail to Note that Gardner Contradicted Himself on National TV

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(Spelling it out for you – Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Sen. Cory Gardner (R).

On CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday, John Dickerson had this exchange U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO):

Dickerson: …And there’s a New York Times piece in which you’re quoted as saying, “Donors are furious we haven’t kept our promise.” The picture that emerges from all of this is a rush for political reasons to support this and not substantive reasons. What are your thoughts about that?

Gardner replied with: “Well, this has nothing to do with politics. It has nothing to do with donors. It has everything to do with the people of this country who are suffering each and every day under a health care bill that is failing to meet their needs, that’s bankrupting them.”

Gardner told Dickerson that “the people who are opponents of the bill want this to be about politics and not policy.”

If you’re a reporter, how could you possibly report Gardner’s answer to Dickerson’s question without noting that Gardner essentially contradicted what the New York Times quoted Gardner as saying?

Yet, multiple outlets made no mention of the New York Times account.

For example The Hill’s Rebecca Savransky reported yesterday:

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) said Sunday the GOP push to get an ObamaCare repeal bill passed has nothing to do with politics.

“This has nothing to do with politics. It has nothing to do with donors.” Gardner said on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” when asked about whether there was a rush to pass the ObamaCare repeal bill for political and not substantive reasons.

“It has everything to do with the people of this country who are suffering each and every day under a health-care bill that is failing to meet their needs, that’s bankrupting them.”

Locally, Denver Post reporter Jesse Paul at least noted that Gardner “brushed off a question about whether Republicans are just trying” to make good on their promise to repeal Obamacare. But he, too, failed to note that Gardner’s answer, that this has “nothing to do with politics, it has nothing to do with donors,” contradicted reporting by the New York Times.

I could see a journalist being reluctant to report the New York Times’ account, because it came from an anonymous source, even if the story was from the New York Times.

But Gardner did not dispute the NYT article, when asked directly about it by Dickerson.

And a reporter could always ask Gardner directly if the Times story is accurate–instead of simply omitting the Times’ information and letting Gardner contradict it directly. In fact, that’s still worth doing.

For the record, here’s exactly what the Times reported Friday:

As more than 40 subdued Republican senators lunched on Chick-fil-A at a closed-door session last week, Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado painted a dire picture for his colleagues. Campaign fund-raising was drying up, he said, because of widespread disappointment among donors over the inability of the Republican Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act or do much of anything else.

Mr. Gardner is in charge of his party’s midterm re-election push, and he warned that donors of all stripes were refusing to contribute another penny until the struggling majority produced some concrete results.

“Donors are furious,” one person knowledgeable about the private meeting quoted Mr. Gardner as saying. “We haven’t kept our promise.”

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9 thoughts on “Journalists Fail to Note that Gardner Contradicted Himself on National TV

  1. Dear Sen. Corwardly Lyin'* . . . 

    (*That oughta' keep Zappy Johnson happy . . .)

    Maybe those donors aren't as furious as they are smart?  Would you pay twice for a jalopy you already own outright? 

    I guess that's the problem with selling your soul 100%  — you got nothing left to offer the invisible fist of the market!!!

    Rot in Hell,

    (take Moderatus with you)

     

    D

     

  2. I'm also confused about his concern for people "under a health care bill that is failing to meet their needs, that’s bankrupting them."

    Last I heard, personal bankruptcy was declining substantially, and bankruptcy due to medical expenses was much, MUCH less common. Has anyone asked Gardner who is going bankrupt? Or how he thinks that the DonTcare 4.0/ Senate's "Third Times a Charm" / Graham-Cassidy approach would work to reduce personal debt from medical expenses?

  3. Captain Koch standing on the deck of The Good Ship Lollipop Life wooing unsuspecting donors to part with their hard-earned money in the belief said transaction would result in a deliverable.  That snapshot of the newly-minted Senator  (after his campaign promise to put the interests of ordinary Coloradans above Washington interests ) never gets old. 

      1. For this issue Quid pro Koch has turned out to be a shitty political strategy.  However, Chuck and Dave are no doubt quite pleased with the way the EPA is being dismantled right before our eyes. I long for the old days when our biggest faux outrage was over making sure the EPA wouldn't regulate farm dust (which they had no plans of doing). At least they only wasted one vote on that useless bill and not the 60+ barking at the ObummerCare Moon. 

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