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Krauthammer’s Take: Administration Using ‘Linguistic Sleight of Hand’ to Hide Site’s Problems


The White House is using “linguistic sleight of hand” to obscure further problems with, Charles Krauthammer said Tuesday night.

Despite the administration’s insistence that the back end of the website is fixed, insurers are getting erroneous information. As such, Krauthammer declared, the website will still be a problem.


Krauthammer also gave a pair of scenarios for why House press secretary Jay Carney reported the number of visitors to rather than giving an enrollment number today: the administration either knows the number of enrollees and is suppressing it or it truly has no way of knowing.

“This thing is absolutely nonfunctional,” Krauthammer said.