{"id":20833,"date":"2013-12-12T21:38:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T05:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=20833"},"modified":"2013-12-12T21:39:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T05:39:31","slug":"politifact-top-lie-year-like-plan-can-keep-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/politifact-top-lie-year-like-plan-can-keep-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"PolitiFact Top Lie of the Year: &#8220;If You Like Your Plan You Can Keep Your Plan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Iw3lRVIsHk?rel=0\" height=\"203\" width=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I guess PolitiFact will be ripped tomorrow by the crap media and called racists by MSNBC! Obama lied to the people and hid it all through executive orders last year delaying implementation allowing him to steal the 2012 election from Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>Congress will do absolutely nothing about his lies and allow obamacare to be implemented. The worst thing about all of this are the liars in the republican party who campaigned that they would do everything possible to stop this obaminable law who have in fact done nothing!<\/p>\n<p>So a lie that didn&#8217;t make the list was the lies told by republicans they would repeal the law!<br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Obama-is-a-Liar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20148 alignleft\" alt=\"Obama is a Liar\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Obama-is-a-Liar.jpg?resize=172%2C148\" width=\"172\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Obama-is-a-Liar.jpg?w=797 797w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Obama-is-a-Liar.jpg?resize=300%2C257 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Obama-is-a-Liar.jpg?resize=349%2C300 349w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><strong>Lie of the Year: &#8216;If you like your health care plan, you can keep it&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2013\/dec\/12\/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it\/\">By Angie Drobnic Holan | PolitiFact<\/a><br \/>\nIt was a catchy political pitch and a chance to calm nerves about his dramatic and complicated plan to bring historic change to America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health insurance system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,&#8221; President Barack Obama said &#8212; many times &#8212; of his landmark new law.<\/p>\n<p>But the promise was impossible to keep.<\/p>\n<p>So this fall, as cancellation letters were going out to approximately 4 million Americans, the public realized Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s breezy assurances were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Boiling down the complicated health care law to a soundbite proved treacherous, even for its promoter-in-chief. Obama and his team made matters worse, suggesting they had been misunderstood all along. The stunning political uproar led to this: a rare presidential apology.<\/p>\n<p>For all of these reasons, PolitiFact has named &#8220;If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,&#8221; the Lie of the Year for 2013. Readers in a separate online poll overwhelmingly agreed with the choice<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2013\/dec\/12\/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it\/\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess PolitiFact will be ripped tomorrow by the crap media and called racists by MSNBC! Obama lied to the people and hid it all through executive orders last year delaying implementation allowing him to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[549,5201,14],"tags":[680,34421,172,35214,35216,4886,35213,35215,2664],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}