The biggest Pinocchios of 2013

From the WashingtonPost.com:

by Glenn Kessler

It’s time for our annual round-up of the biggest Pinocchios of the year. This was not a presidential election year, so in some ways the subjects that needed to be fact checked were more substantive. In reviewing The Fact Checker’s more than 200 columns in the past year, we found an interesting evolution from statistics about gun violence to claims about President Obama’s health-care law. Our general rule of thumb held: the more complex a subject is, the more tempted politicians are to make misleading claims.

President Obama ended up with three of the most misleading claims of the year. But, despite the urging of some readers, his statement that “I didn’t set a red line” on Syria is not among them. We had looked closely at that claim and had determined that, in context, it was a bungled talking point, so that statement actually earned no rating.

That said:

NUMBER ONE:

This memorable promise by President Obama backfired on him when the Affordable Care Act went into effect and millions of Americans started receiving cancellation notices. As we explained, part of the reason for so many cancellations is because of an unusually early (March 23, 2010) cut-off date for grandfathering plans — and because of tight regulations written by the administration. This was our most popular fact check of the year — and Obama’s pledge also was also named PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year.”

An insertion: if Mr Obama hadn’t insisted upon that statement again and again and again, there could have been some leeway proffered.  Absent that, Mr Obama is nothing but a — wait for it — LIAR.

Pretty simple.  Even journalists now realize: liar.

BZ

 

Ex-USSS Agent: “it’s worse than people know”

One YouTube video:

Because, after all, “I’ve got nothing to hide.”

Really?  You must not be human.

“In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.”

— Adolf Hitler, 1925, Mein Kampf

BZ

P.S.
Dan Bongino for Maryland’s 6th Congressional District.

 

‘Like Your Plan, Keep Your Plan’ Was A Hillary Creation

Hillary Health CareFirst, for reference:

That said, from FreeBeacon.com:

BY:

It was Hillary Clinton that originally coined the now problematic “like your plan, keep your plan” talking point that President Barack Obama relied on during his fight for Obamacare.

On Clinton’s 2007 campaign website, unearthed by America Rising, it is written that that under Hillary’s American Health Choices Plan, “if you have a plan you like, you keep it.”

So: even in destroying America, Mr Obama quite literally does not possess even one original thought in his brain pan.

BZ