Best of the Web Today: ObamaCare and the Totalitarian Mindset - WSJ.com: "Suppose some inventor hatches an idea for what he thinks would be a great and revolutionary new product. He raises money from investors, sets up office, hires people--and fails spectacularly. The company's customer service is atrocious, the product is expensive and lousy, and the whole business plan is fundamentally flawed. Who's to blame?
The news media, of course. After all, journalists could have put out stories touting the virtues of the product and explaining how to navigate the crummy customer-service system, and maybe then the whole business plan would have worked out.
That, at any rate, is the argument Paul Waldman puts forth in an article for the leftist American Prospect. Of course being a good leftist, Waldman is not blaming the media for the failure of a private business. But then neither would any nonleftist. But because the enterprise in question is a governmental one--ObamaCare, in case you've been away from Earth for the past two months--the argument somehow makes sense to him."
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