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"If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it". Lie of the year in 2013. https://www.politifact.com/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-

"If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it". Lie of the year in 2013. https://www.politifact.com/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it/ https://www.politifact.com/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-y... This guy has less than no credibility when it comes to disinformation. He pals around with Ben "echo chamber" Rhodes, the master of disinformation during the Obama presidency. https://freebeacon.com/national-security/ben-rhodes/ https://freebeacon.com/national-security/ben-rhodes/

dredmorbius 5y ago
Obama addressed that specific point during his Chicago appearance on the disinformation topic. You, and other readers here, might care to see his comments on the point, which includes an acknowledgement of the strict technical truth that his promise wasn't met, but also what to my ears at least is an exceedingly reasonable justification for why, and how the labeling (and political deployment) of the statment has lost sight of those elements, to the point of fundamental disenginuity. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uGXwA1W2cbc&t=25m35s https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uGXwA1W2cbc&t=25m35s (25:35 into the presentation)