The Astroturf ‘Expert’

Ed Morrissey highlights how an Obama administration health-care consultant was also a major media source on the health-care plan:

When MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber allowed himself to be quoted by numerous media outlets about his sunny analyses of ObamaCare, including a big push by Peter Orszag on his OMB site and in challenging reporters to use Gruber’s conclusions, Gruber never bothered to mention that he was receiving money through HHS to provide consultation on health-care reform.

Sen. Chuck Grassley is now asking questions. Read the whole thing.