We already knew he was the biggest loser … now he’s the biggest liar as well.
U.S. President Barack Obama has won Politifact‘s “Lie of the Year” for the whopper he told about individual Americans’ health care plans.
Missed that one? Here you go …
“It was a catchy political pitch and a chance to calm nerves about his dramatic and complicated plan to bring historic change to America’s health insurance system,” writes Angie Drobnic Holan for Politifact. “But the promise was impossible to keep. So this fall, as cancellation letters were going out to approximately 4 million Americans, the public realized Obama’s breezy assurances were wrong.”
Of course Obama knew his “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it” promise was bunk years ago.
According to NBC News, as far back as July 2010 “the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them.”
Yet Obama continued to parrot his promise through 2012. And the mainstream media refused to call him out on it …
Obviously Obama is primarily to blame for this debacle – but some of the onus has to fall on a supplicant national press corps, doesn’t it?
We think so …
Politicians will lie, cheat and steal at every opportunity unless they are exposed and held accountable by the media for their actions.
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The Community organizing, Peace prize winning drone strike king gets another notch in his failure belt.
I suppose he could always take it off and hang himself with it, but that would require honor.
What do you expect? He’s black. It’s a big black lie.
Bush told a whopper in his State of the Union Address… but we called that a little white lie.
“What do you expect? He’s black. It’s a big black lie.”
Technically, he’s half black. So it’s a half white lie.
half black
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you know, I’ve always wondered. Would that mean he sits in the middle of the bus? Could he drink from either fountain?
That makes it worse, not better, it seems to me.
He can’t marry a white woman or a black woman without a mixed marriage. He can’t whistle at *any* women, and he’d better stay out of Walgreen’s.
He’s got more trouble in the south than a gay Jewish Catholic with an American flag patch on his ass and a black power fist t-shirt.
lmao!
Wouldn’t being a half black and a half whit(e) make him a “grey”? And we all know that another name for “greys” is aliens. If he’s an alien, can he serve as president?
“greys”
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I’ll alert the media!
How did Rove miss this one?
I made this video to illustrate the lie of the year, among other lies used to sell Obamacare.
Hitler’s health insurance is cancelled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USG_gjaEYak
Cheers,
O.V.
Wanna see lies?
Look at Nikki Haley’s “jobs announced” figures, or Richard Eckstrom’s upcoming Ethics hearings.
And the one truth in all of the Obamacare ACA health insurance mess is that Addison Graves “Joe” Wilson was right…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B1fFHg7BW0
Congress is exempt from the health care law.
Ted Cruz, False
The IRS will keep a database of health secrets.
Michele Bachmann, Pants on Fire
No U.S.-trained doctors will accept Obamacare.
Ann Coulter, Pants on Fire
Obamacare means forced home inspections.
Bloggers, Pants on Fire
Obamacare will question your sex life.
Betsy McCaughey, Pants on Fire
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-readers-poll-results-2013/
These were also in the running for lie of the year, but shhhh! Conservatives never lie!
I’m trying to decide which liberal has the biggest non sequitur in this thread. You are cheating a bit with the volume.
Never mind that a number of these are not even lies, it is hardly earth shattering that people lie. The point of the post is that Obama has finally accomplished something – he told the biggest lie of them all. I hope they send him a trophy and he displays it prominently over the Nobel. At least he earned this one.
Congress is exempt from the health care law.
Ted Cruz, False except of course it was true until public outcry took the exemption away – not that it matters to Harry Reid’s staff who are in fact exempt.. .http://www.examiner.com/article/harry-reid-exempts-members-of-his-staff-from-obamacare
The IRS will keep a database of health secrets.
Michele Bachmann, Pants on Fire except for that pesky “data hub” the IRS has yet to explain… http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/315083-a-closer-look-at-the-obamacare-data-hub
No U.S.-trained doctors will accept Obamacare.
Ann Coulter, Pants on Fire except that doctors are already refusing to accept Obamacare patients and more will follow… http://washingtonexaminer.com/doctors-boycotting-californias-obamacare-exchange/article/2540272
Obamacare means forced home inspections.
Bloggers, Pants on Fire..okay you got me here – never saw this one bandied about by anyone but the tin foil hat crowd…
Obamacare will question your sex life.
Betsy McCaughey, Pants on Fire – hey you got another one except that there’s this small thing in the Stimulus plan that does encourage the sex questioning… .http://www.factcheck.org/2013/10/sex-questions-from-your-doctor/
And now we hear that the administration is asking insurers to cover services for their formerly insured customers even if the doctor doesn’t accept Obamacare patients and even though they may never get reimbursed while also asking the new insurer to cover the service while also giving the new Obamacare covered client hasn’t paid yet – what a bunch of amateurs – or are they bwhahahahaha….
True Smirks but the President of the United States of America won.
Some of the above, other than Congressional exemption, still have at least a grain of truth in them, although the semantics might be off. Like “Death Panels” versus IPAB (Independent Payment Advisory Board) aka the cost-cutting/rationing board which is also opposed by some democrats.
Conservative and Progressives run neck and neck in the lying department. They are after all, politicians.
Everybody has at least one thing that they do really well…
I always favored, “Well, the main thing is I just wanted to have a chance to publicly say thank you, because I think Hillary will go down as one of the finest secretaries of state we’ve had. It has been a great collaboration over the last four years.”-Obama 1-26-2013 as THE biggest lie of the year.
Hillary will go down
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I thought her inability to go down was what caused the shitstorm in the first place.
“These days, the only time politicians tell the truth is when they call each other a liar.” ~Alfred E. Neuman
Obama apologist excuse flow chart:
1. He didn’t really say that.
2. OK, maybe he said that but that’s not what he meant
3. Maybe that’s what he meant but he really thought it was true at the time
4. OK maybe knew it wasn’t true but it’s for the greater good
5. Republicans lie too!
What has changed since 2009?
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/aug/11/barack-obama/barack-obama-promises-you-can-keep-your-health-ins/
It was “half-true” then.
The BIGGEST LIAR in the WORLD passes JUDGES DONALD STERLING
fatuous1
Interestingly, that is EXACTLY the same kind of BULL$HYT the ANTI-DEFACATION LEAGUERS and SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW SINNERS!
PRESIDENT OBAMA passes JUDGEMENT on DONALD STERLING – Well isn’t that SPECIAL
http://sandrarose.com/2013/12/president-obama-wins-liar-of-the-year-award/
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for the ASSOCIATION of WHITE PEOPLE!