TELL ME LIES, TELL ME SWEET LITTLE LIES November 7, 2013 Back in 1987, the pop rock band Fleetwood Mac wrote and recorded a song describing a young love who needed her ego stroked and fears removed by being told little lies. That song, Little Lies, comes to mind when watching President Barack Obama spin his little lies into big lies. Obama is taking Little Lies to a higher platitude. Whereas Obama would rather have Jay-Z or Lil Wayne perform at his galas, the fact remains Fleetwood Macs Little Lies is a plea for a dazzling young love to close my, close my, close my eyes and just tell me what I want to hear. Dont speak truth. It might hurt. President Obama is a master at lying. Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitlers Progapandist is noted as having said: If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. I could not help but notice the network news spending an enormous amount of time airing Obama campaign sppeches of recent days pushing Obamacare enrollment as the greatest thing since Ice Cream. They are the Presidents propaganda Ministry. They are what Vladimer Lenin used to call “useful idiots.” The media are hard at work attempting to continue deceiving the American people into believing that Obamacare is what is needed to further the good of the people at large. That is, to take from the “haves” and give to the “have-nots,” only to serve corrupt government’s purposes – when in fact, the opposite is true. Russian revolutionary and propagandist Lenin said, “A good communist finds use for everything, and nothing is more useful than a useful idiot.” Today, on a daily basis, we see media propagandists fronting for this administration and special interests. Thomas Jefferson rightly said, “If your government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.” Throwing off all of the warnings that our forefathers have given, these “useful idiots” would have you overlook the corruption that is coming forth from this administration on a daily basis. They attempt to divert your attention from the facts, namely “The Law of the Land,” so that you will believe their contrived and fabricated lies, only to further their agenda. Obama is a liar, not a person who “misspoke,” as the New York Times editorial board ridiculously asserted last Sunday. His promise that if Americans liked their healthcare plan they could keep it – made on at least 23 separate, videotaped occasions – was not the “half true” statement the equally corrupt politifact website contended it was. Nor did the president make a “campaign pledge which did not hold up to the realities of governing,” as shameless TV host Bill Maher declared, before further noting it was a “moral complexity” he is “okay with cause Im not twelve.” It was a bald-faced lie. And on at least one occasion in June of 2009, it included a completely unambiguous qualifier: “if you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan, period.” (Italics mine). Yet Monday, in an Orwellian moment that provided the public with an unprecedented look at the presidents utter lack of credibility, Obama insisted he never made any such promises. “What we said was you could keep it if it hasnt changed since the law was passed,” Obama declared at the St. Regis hotel, in a room containing around 200 of his staunchest Organizing for Action (OFA) supporters. He then went on defending the indefensible. “If we had allowed these old plans [to continue] … then we would have broken an even more important promise–making sure that Americans gain access to health care that doesnt leave them one illness away from financial ruin,” he remarked. “So the bottom line is, is that we are making the insurance market better for everybody.” Note the use of the word “we.” “We” didnt make the same promise to the American people over and over and over again. Barack Obama did. “We” is a great indication the president is more than willing to once again absolve himself of responsibility, should this transparent effort to literally re-write history fail to gain the support of the American public. Thankfully, it is an effort being undermined by revelation after revelation. On Monday, the AP revealed at least 3.5 million Americans have had their insurance policies cancelled so far. “So far” is a critical phrase for a number of reasons. As AP notes, “data is unavailable in a (sic) half the states. Assuming the data is identical, getting the other half of it would theoretically double the cancellation total to 6 million. Fortunately, an Obama administration talking point, or more accurately, a pathetic attempt to mitigate the damage regarding the presidents mendacity, inadvertently provided a far more accurate picture of how many Americans they expect will be losing their coverage. Were talking about 5 percent of the country, explained White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. Five percent of the country equals 14 million people. Yet even that number pales in comparison to what Forbes Magazines Roy Avik discovered. He notes that page 34,551 of the Federal Register, Vol. 75, No. 116 – dated Thursday, June, 17, 2010 – reveals a great deal about what this administration knew and when they knew it. In total, approximately 66 percent of small employers and 48 percent of large employers made a change in either cost sharing or premium contribution during 2009 that would require them to relinquish grandfather status if the same change were made in 2011,” it states. Avik reveals that the cancellations resulting from these subsequently non-grandfather plans in the employer-based market, coupled with the estimated losses in the individual market, raises the number of people who cant keep their current plan if they like it up to a mind-boggling 93 million Americans. Thats almost one third of the entire country. Moreover, the notion that Barack Obama might have been “unaware” his promise was untruthful was exploded by the Wall Street Journal. They reveal that while the president was out making his pitch to the American people, White House officials “discussed whether that was a promise they could keep,” ultimately deciding “the assertion was fair.” Their twisted rationale was best expressed by an unnamed former official. “You try to talk about health care in broad, intelligible points that cut through, and you inevitably lose some accuracy when you do that,” the official said. Jim Margolis, a media adviser to Obamas campaigns in 2008 and 2012, made a similar assessment. “With 20/20 hindsight, maybe this should have been parsed more carefully,” he contended. Nonetheless, he reached the same destination “The presidents statement seems fair,” he decided. Former senior White House adviser David Axelrod sunk even lower, claiming there was no intention to mislead the public, and that the failure of the healthcare.gov website is the real reason so many Americans are angry. “The great misfortune here is that the website debacle occurred at the same time as this issue arising,” he said. “Because, if the website hadnt gone down, then lots of these people would be going online and figuring out, Hey Im getting a better insurance policy, and Ill have to pay less money for it. But they cant, because the website is down.” In other words, Americans would have been OK with being lied to, as long as they could have gotten cheaper insurance. Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies. Administration officials buried themselves still deeper, insulting the public in the process. They told the Journal there was some second-guessing involved in reaching their decision, discussing the possibility that Obama “might use more in-depth discussions, such as media interviews, to explain the nuances of the succinct line in his stump speeches.” Yet they determined such details could “clutter” the presidents message, “confusing” Americans in the process. Some officials did object to the presidents assertions, but they were reportedly overruled by political aides. In other words, they decided to lie by omission, because they believed Americans were too stupid to handle the truth. And once again, remaining true to form, the White House claims it never knew about the dissenters. The Washington Posts Mark Theissen, who worked in the Bush White House, reveals the utter nonsense behind such a claim. After explaining the “staffing process” that determines whether anything even remotely questionable can be included in a speech by the president, noting that every line “is reviewed by dozens of senior officials, who offer comments and factual corrections,” he reaches an inexorable conclusion. “This was a premeditated deception,” he declares. “This wasnt something Obama ad-libbed. It was a line in a presidential speech that was carefully reviewed by the entire White House senior staff. Obamas political advisers were told by his policy aides the statement was inaccurate – but they decided to let Americans believe the falsehood.” Like Obama himself, the presidents defenders are also engaged in Orwellian endeavors. “There was nothing about what President Obama or that I or any other Democrat supporting the Affordable Care Act said that was not true,” declared DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz. (Wasserman Schultz herself is a documented liar, caught on videotape attributing a statement to Israeli ambassador Michael Oren she subsequently denied making). The best the Huffington Posts Jason Linkins can do is take the president mildly to task for his “glib pronouncement,” even as he wonders “whether the medias overarching attention to finding some cheap gotcha moments to bedevil political figures for a newscycle or three doesnt end up adding to the confusion.” And while the National Journals Ron Fournier criticizes Obama for “misleading the public about his deception,” he subsequently concludes that on “historys scale of deception, this one leaves a light footprint. Worse lies have been told by worse presidents, leading to more severe consequences, and you could argue that withholding a caveat is more a sin of omission.” Since Fournier failed to identify any of those worse lies, one is left to ponder what particular “sin of omission” has resulted in more severe repercussions than the possibility of 97 million Americans losing their health insurance. What one is not left to ponder is the depth to which the president and his apologists will sink to defend Obamas outright lying, all of which can be reduced to the American lefts ultimate rationalization: we will get what we want by any means necessary. Thus they will furiously attempt to deflect reality, insisting that the presidents lie either doesnt matter, or even worse, is justifiable because Americans can get cheaper insurance policies, they were being ripped off by what the left has taken upon itself to define as “lousy” insurance policies (even as they couldnt care less what policy holders themselves think), or that Americans simply dont know whats best for themselves. They will even go so far as to belittle a stage 4 cancer patient named Edie Littlefield Sundby, because she had the temerity to pen a Wall Street Journal editorial revealing that she is losing both her insurance and her oncology doctors because of ObamaCare. White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer used his official Twitter account to disseminate a blog by Think Progress blaming the womans insurance company for pulling out of the California market, rather than the reality that ObamaCare itself prompted the move. Remarkably, Obama himself used market turnover as his rationale for contending he never lied to the American public. “People are acting like this is some new phenomenon… every year there was churn in this individual market,” he told his supporters Monday night. “We decided we need to build something better, no matter how hard it is.” And no matter how much lying it takes to get there. It remains to be seen if this is the final straw for the American public. The latest Gallup poll shows Obamas approval ratings have fallen below 40 percent. “Obama has rebranded himself as a liar, forever. He will carry this new label to his grave, writes the NY Posts Kyle Smith. It is a new label that will be heavily reinforced by a critical mass of videotaped statements, none of which contain any mention of his new if it hasnt changed” qualifier – along with one cancelled policy after another, affecting millions. Yet the true measure of this president comes down to one immutable reality. Faced with a choice of admitting he lied and apologizing to the public, or doubling down on thoroughly documented lie, he chose to double down. Theres only one reason he would do that: because he thinks he can get away with it. If hes right, this nation truly wants to be told only those sweet little lies and has been “fundamentally transformed” as Obama promised he would do. Wow! Imagine that, one promise he has kept and one truth told. Dont count on anymore.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:39:20 +0000
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