More from that Nagourney piece on Reid:

Obama said he understood why Nevadans are opposed to the health care bill now, but he says that will change. “Well, if you’ve got insurance companies spending hundreds of millions of dollars scaring the daylights out of people into thinking that somehow this is a government takeover of health care, that it’s unpaid for, that it means huge new taxes on them, that it’s going to mean higher premiums — if that’s the information you’re getting, shoot, I’d be against it, too,” the president told me. “Once this thing is passed and signed, then suddenly The New York Times and other newspapers are going to have a big article saying what does this mean for you, and people will take a look at it and say, ‘You know what, this is a lot better deal than I thought.’ And I think that will serve Harry very well.”

Which is worse: that the president thinks that the insurance companies, which mostly support his health-care initiative, are behind the public disapproval of it, or that he thinks what’s been missing from his effort is positive coverage in the Times?