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Louie Gohmert: To address the Affordable Care Act, as it was improperly and inaccurately labeled, is an article from Ben Shapiro in…

On the recordDecember 12, 2013
To address the Affordable Care Act, as it was improperly and inaccurately labeled, is an article from Ben Shapiro in Breitbart today that said: On Friday, PolitiFact bowed to the inevitable and named President Obama's ``If you like your health care plan, you can keep it'' statement its Lie of the Year. That came after PolitiFact labeled that statement ``half-true'' in June of 2012 and then defended its ``half-true'' rating in October 2013. PolitiFact said: 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, but the promise was impossible to keep. Of course, there's more to the story than that: the promise was a lie when it was made, given that Obama knew at the time that insurance plans would be canceled. But PolitiFact, even in naming the statement the Lie of the Year, soft-pedaled it: Obama fought back against inaccurate attacks with his own oversimplifications, which he repeated even as it became clear his promise was too sweeping. So even PolitiFact, doing all they could to defend something that ended up absolutely not being true, they finally had to come around and actually admit when the whole country basically--most of the country-- could see the truth, even PolitiFact had to finally get around to being factual. Here is another story from John Nolte, the Breitbart, 12 December, today.…
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Louie Gohmert
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Dec 12, 2013

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