BeLIEve

Every year Politifact.com awards one unlucky schmuck the not-so-prestigious Lie of the Year Award. This year’s recipient was our very own commander in chief Barack Obama. 

Now as far as I’m concerned politicians should just be exempt from this whole thing because every last one of them lies or at the very least stretches the truth further than Octomom’s waistline when she’s carrying a litter of 8.

 Suffice to say, every year that they’ve been presenting this award it’s gone to a politician. It really is an unfair advantage, especially in regard to those of us busting our asses everyday to come up with the ultimate Teflon lie.

At any rate, the lie that nominated and ultimately awarded Mr. Obama was his repeated statement in regard to people’s insurance coverage and his Affordable Care Act. Specifically this one line; “If you’re happy with your health care plan, you can keep it.”

The catch is, under the ACA’s new guidelines, a lot of people’s (4 million to be exact) health plans didn’t qualify, thus they were canceled and Obama was by default, a liar.

Let’s keep in mind that even though 4 million seems like a lot, it only accounted for around 2% of the insured population. That’s not to say that there weren’t a lot of folks who were royally pissed upon finding out that their plans had been canceled. 

But in retrospect, the new plans they’d received were supposedly more comprehensive and after alleged subsidies and credits were applied the cost was slightly higher than their original plans but covered them a lot more.  Please keep in mind that all of this glass half full information came from an administration that was just awarded something for lying.

None of this really matters though in the age of the repetitive sound bite.  Conservatives have been screaming at the top of their self-righteous lungs about this and absolutely no one is surprised.

As irony would have it, the 3 runners up this year for the Golden Lie were Ted Cruz, Ann Coulter & Michele Bachmann (all right-wing conservatives) for their own blatant lies about the ACA.

Regardless of that though…

 Fox News will probably be all over this Lie of the Year Award quicker than Rush Limbaugh is at an all you can eat buffet on dollar night with complimentary pain killers, no limit.

But do any of us really care what Fox News has to say? Because anybody with a 5^th grader’s wisdom knows that Fox News is on par with any given trashy reality TV show. Actually let me amend that: All News Channels are total crap and have as much integrity as The Real Housewives of any given city. It’s all lowest common denominator entertainment.

ANYWAY-

Truth be told, Obama wasn’t forthcoming with all the information he was privy to. But who the hell is completely honest when talking about a sensitive subject? Men and women of all creeds, social and financial backgrounds know when to say just enough but not divulge the entire truth lest they want their asses handed to them.

 
Here’s a very relatable example: “Honey, does this dress make me look fat?”

Now if it does and you know it and you say it, the only thing that will come of it is a fat lip to compliment  her fat  ass. 

So the correct response is “Baby, if you’re happy with that dress, you can keep it.”

In retrospect, we could all learn a thing or two from our President and his award.