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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: pjohns on December 13, 2013, 02:39:39 am

Title: Politifact's 2013 Lie of the Year
Post by: pjohns on December 13, 2013, 02:39:39 am

PolitiFact--which is certainly not a right-wing organization--has now labeled President Obama's promise, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it"--sometimes punctuated with the emphatic, "period; end of story"--as its 2013 Lie of the Year:  http://www.politifact.com/ (http://www.politifact.com/)

This is most intriguing...

Title: Re: Politifact's 2013 Lie of the Year
Post by: Oceander on December 13, 2013, 05:10:36 am

yes, but no doubt the "solution" will be to double down on the socialism in order to "fix" the problem.

Title: Re: Politifact's 2013 Lie of the Year
Post by: Cincinnatus on December 13, 2013, 06:28:14 am

yes, but no doubt the "solution" will be to double down on the socialism in order to "fix" the problem.

Or maybe he will come up with an even bigger lie. He still has just over 2 weeks.

Title: Re: Politifact's 2013 Lie of the Year
Post by: pjohns on December 13, 2013, 03:00:39 pm

Quote from: Oceander on December 13, 2013, 05:10:36 am

yes, but no doubt the "solution" will be to double down on the socialism in order to "fix" the problem.

I have a hunch that you are correct.  (A rough analogue:  If the stimulus does not fix the economy, the solution must be more stimulus...)