Sultan Knish
Every morning the media paws through a dictionary looking for the most innocuous ways to describe Obama's big health care lie.
According
to the New York Times, Obama "misspoke" when he said over and over
again that if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. But unlike the
times that the smartest man to ever put up his feet on the table in the
Oval Office thought that Austrian was a language or that the United
States had 57 states, he wasn't misspeaking.
44, as Politico
likes to call him, was doing what 1 wouldn't do after he chopped down a
cherry tree. And to call a lie, misspeaking, is itself a lie.
Rob
Ford didn't misspeak when he claimed not to be on crack, despite being
on crack. Barack Obama didn't misspeak when he promised to let you keep
your health plan, when he had no intention of letting you do any such
thing. And the New York Times didn't misspeak when it tried to pass that
lie off as a mere slip of the tongue.
The New York Times, which
never hesitated to call George W. Bush a liar, switched up its
euphemisms and began calling Obama's lie an "incorrect promise". NBC
News called it a "promise they couldn't keep." The Associated Press
called it an "inflated promise."
A few of their more honestly
dishonest colleagues in the media argued that Obama did the right thing
because he could never have pried the health plans of Americans out of
their grubby little hands if he hadn't promised them that his government
takeover of healthcare would affect everyone else but them. Some of the
pundits making that argument included those on Obama's regular reading
list.
The excuse that Obama lied blatantly about the impact of a
law he wanted to pass in order to pass it will no doubt be a great
comfort to those gun owners who were willing to trust that his crusade
against gun rights would stop where he told them it would and those
Republican supporters of amnesty for illegal aliens who believed that he
really would secure the borders once he got his millions of newly
minted Democratic Party voters
If Obama lied to pass one law,
what sensible argument can any of his supporters make for believing him
the next time he promises, “If you like your guns, you can keep your
guns” or “If you like your borders, you can keep your borders”?
Obama
wasn't the first politician to lie. He won't be the last. But most
politicians who lie don't have an army of reporters swarming around them
to explain that they didn't lie, but just inflated their misspeaking.
One man did not get up in front of the microphones and cameras and lie
over and over again. The entire liberal establishment lied. And it's
still lying.
The media’s lies and excuses, even more than the original Obama lie, reveal why liberals can never be trusted.
If
Obama had only lied about being on crack or with an intern, that might
be an impeachable act, but an understandable human failing. But he
wasn't lying to cover up something shameful that he did. He lied because
he didn’t think Americans deserved to keep their health plans… or the
truth.
Obama lied because he is a liberal.
That Obama
would lie was an inevitable as the sun rising in the morning and the
taxman coming in the spring. The lie was baked into the nature of the
progressive movement that he identified with and its social experiments
with human lives for the greater good that he participated in.
Lying
isn't incidental to a liberal. Liberal is another word for liar.
Someone who believes, as Obama and his media cronies do, that Americans
are too stupid and ignorant to be trusted to choose their own health
care, isn't about to trust them with the truth.
Telling someone
the truth shows that we respect them as people. We give them the
information and then trust that they will make the right decision. Trust
and respect are the key words here.
Liars don't trust and respect people. Neither do liberals.
Liberals
don't believe that the people they lie to are their equals. If they
did, not only wouldn't they lie to them, but they wouldn't subscribe to a
skewed leftist take on liberalism that compels them to take away
choices from people for their own good.
You don't take away
someone's right to choose unless you think that they are inferior to
you. The policies of liberalism can only be justified by assuming that
the people whose lives they run into the ground are their ethical and
intellectual inferiors.
If you think that the next person over
can run his life just as well as you run yours, then there's no reason
to take over his life and to lie to him about it. But if you think that
he’s probably a racist moron who worships the flag and clings to his gun
and bible and can't be trusted to buy a car, raise his kids, drink a
large soda and see a doctor; then you're probably a liberal.
And a liar.
That's
the difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives
respect people's choices. Liberals don't. And if you don't respect
someone's choices, you don't respect them.
If you think that the
average person is a moron, then the only answer is to set up to some
ideal republic of liberal philosopher kings who will nudge the marching
morons into the death panels for their own greater good while lying to
them that the death panelists are really the judges for the next hot
talent competition.
If ordinary people don't deserve the basic
decency of being allowed to make decisions about their own health care,
then they also don't deserve the basic decency of not being lied to
their faces about those decisions being taken away from them.
If
Obama had trusted and respected Americans, he wouldn't have lied to them
about ObamaCare. But if he had really trusted and respected them, then
he wouldn't have engaged in a massive government hijacking of their
health care options, mandated their participation in health plans at
virtual gunpoint and then rewritten the regulations to destroy as many
of their grandfathered health plans as possible.
And so if Obama had really trusted and respected Americans, he wouldn't have inflicted ObamaCare on them.
The
existence of ObamaCare made it inevitable that Obama would lie about it
in the same way that a burglar smashing the window of a jewelery store
won't hesitate to lie to the owner about what he's doing. A man who is
willing to rob a store or a nation will easily and casually lie about
his crime.
Obama's crime isn't the lie. The lie is the cover-up
of the crime. The crime is that Obama packaged a tax, a welfare program
and a government takeover of health care together and called it reform.
That was the bigger lie and there was no misspeaking involved.
The
media has shown that Obama's lie was no isolated incident by lying
about the lie for the same reason that he told the lie. The health plan
lie wasn't the lie of one politician protecting his reputation; it was
the big lie of a liberal establishment protecting its agenda.
The
liberal media manipulates its readers, listeners and viewers the same
way that liberal governments manipulate their citizens. And they both do
it because they don't believe that the ordinary person has the right to
the truth or the right to his life.
The liberal media
manipulates its readers, listeners and viewers the same way that liberal
governments manipulate their citizens. Unlike Clinton's lie, Obama's
lie was not one man's mistake, but a movement's arrogance. And not only
hasn't Obama stopped lying about his lie, but the media and the rest of
his movement haven't stopped lying about his lie.
Obama’s big
health care lie shows why liberals can't be trusted. Any movement that
believes its members are superior to ordinary people cannot be trusted
to represent them or to tell them the truth.
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