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UPDATE: Obama caught in Pinocchio moment

By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
08/25/09 10:15 AM EDT

Last week, I wondered whether President Obama was telling a whopper during a conference call on August 19 when he dismissed as “fabrications” charges by the National Right to Life Committee and others that a White House-backed health reform bill contained government subsidies for abortion.

According to the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck.org, it was President Obama who was not telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth:

“Despite what Obama said, the House bill would allow abortions to be covered by a federal plan and by federally subsidized private plans.” Here’s the link: http://factcheck.org/2009/08/abortion-which-side-is-fabricating/

NRLC’s detailed analysis can be found here: http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/HR3200NRLCfactsheet.pdf

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1day

Aug 25, 2009

Sounds like another so called reporter hammering the prez instead of just unbiased news. All the articles he has put up so far are biased........ this is news?

Aug 25, 2009

A sad day when reportingis no longer unbiased... I would be ashamed. This paper is not unbiased nor worth reading any longer. REAL REPORTING IS UNBIASED.

Joe

Aug 25, 2009

Seems that Obama would be aware of that, since he's been 100% pro-choice right down the line and, aside from how we're going to pay for this out-of-control spending, that's been the hottest issue of the legislation.

Tom

Aug 25, 2009

It amazes me how "1day" and "me" have forgotten about the days, weeks and months and years that the press hammered President Bush. He couldn't sneeze without a negative comment or article written about him. Grow up and learn to take your medicine.

Ger

Aug 25, 2009

1Day, Joe. This is an opinion piece. Didn't you notice?

Of course the leftist media mixed opinion with news ALL THE TIME.

pauldow

Aug 25, 2009

Instead of calling a reporter "biased", why don't you point out any facts that are incorrect? That would put some weight behind 1day and me's comments.
I don't see any, and obviously neither do they.

Socialists are invincibly ignorant

Aug 25, 2009

How is reporting the truth "hammering the prez" or being bias? Oh, thats right lets use libtard logic...I believe in peter pan and you don't so you are evil and racist.

Face it, 0dumbdumb is a liar!

Aug 25, 2009

The Neo-Con Examiner - the Republican propaganda rag free of charge to all. Fair and balance I think not.

Aug 25, 2009

Face it, you are an idiot.

CenterUS

Aug 25, 2009

If Obama misstated the truth, I guess that gives him something in common with Bush and Cheney, doesn't it? After all, they were proved liars time and time again.

Interesting that when the left criticized Bush they were called traitors. Should the right be called traitors for ruthless, partisan criticism of Obama?

Hypocrisy abounds in America on both sides of the spectrum.

Aug 25, 2009

1day

Aug 25, 2009

Sounds like another so called reporter hammering the prez instead of just unbiased news. All the articles he has put up so far are biased........ this is news?
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They just print negative items about the president. They want him to fail. When you have no ideas and are out of power, this is what you do.

Rick Caird

Aug 25, 2009

You don't think it is news when Obama is caught lying? Well, maybe you're right. It is not news when dog bites man.

Rick

moi

Aug 25, 2009

Guess bias depends on whose ox is being gored.

JavaJoe

Aug 25, 2009

Arthritis is not in the bill, but like abortion, it too is covered.

ahshucks

Aug 25, 2009

He didn't lie, he just misspoke again.

Hope N. Change

Aug 25, 2009

It is no longer "news" when Obama lies. He does it continually, being absolutely incapable of telling the truth.

Aug 26, 2009

me
Are you telling the so call main stream media - abc, nbc, cnn are not bias, then how come solders are dying oversea, why don't i hear it, but it was every day in the news when Bush was in the white house?
Look here idiot
http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/
Top of that this is an opinion page - duhhh

BTW i'm a refugee in this greatest country - i'm telling my son you're witness a history moment - a super power nation going down because there is gov, whom promote the entitlement to every citizens
SAD! SAD! moment

Henry

Aug 26, 2009

Factcheck.org is lieing like a RUG.

ggordon

Aug 26, 2009

If he was not lying, he is very much out of touch with the details of the plan. Like many criticisms of the bill - many direct to specific provisions - circumstances created by the bill lead only to certain (wanted by the authors) conclusions. For example, the bill sets up the circumstances for competition to go away in insurance markets, and for the eventual coverage of most Americans by the government plan. If you do not recognize this, you have not looked at the bill and/or in denial. The coverage of illegal aliens is another of the contentions of critics. Read the bill... it is the only logical conclusion by circumstance that they would be covered.
Back to the point - it is Obama's nature to try and outsmart people - and he's not that bright - or just lie.

bobc

Aug 26, 2009

Obama is very thin skinned, and we are seeing right through him.

Henry

Aug 26, 2009

My "Friends",as far as illegals go, Can you spell emergency room? Illegals and all of the rest of the uninsured meet at the same place at the same time. Guess where?? The emergency room. There but by the Grace of God go you and your family. As long as your luck holds up you won't have to practice compassion, but who knows, some day it may be your turn at the mercy of the emergency room.

Henry

Aug 26, 2009

Emergency Rooms, begrudgely paid for the Tax Payers of America, of whom very few are willing to submit their fair share of Tax's. There are too many so called conservitives who don't want to pay there fair share and many don't. Where would America be if no body payed tax's?? Use your imagination.

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UPDATE: Obama caught in Pinocchio moment

By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
08/25/09 10:15 AM EDT