The media figures if it can fool us and sell us the empty suit that is Barack, then they can fool us into believing ObamaCaid will benefit the majority in the long run.
In their OP-ED the Times writes that Obama and Democrats “failed to explain why reform will” part the red sea…etcetera, ho hum, etcetera. Dumb ol’ hicks that wez is, wez need Daddy Obama and Daddy NYTimes to override what the public’s wishes and shove this mess down our throats!
And Paul Krugman urges Congress and Obama to ignore the will of the peeps and pass ObamaCaid already! Check this bomb from Krugman:

We have posted many items on the failures of the Obama Administration health care reform plans both our own assessments and those of others. Today from WSJ via the dean of Harvard Medical School: "In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health-care spending rather than restrain it."

More:

“…swelling Medicaid ranks, is the reason Washington’s Democratic governor, Christine Gregoire, is among governors from both parties who fear the implications of the health care overhaul now being devised in Washington, D.C.
The governors worry Congress will give the states expensive new Medicaid obligations without providing enough new money to pay for them.” ~nytimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/business/07medicaid.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq...

Upsetting? Better not say so or risk being labeled the R word by MSM.