Your Politifact Fail of the Day

WAYBACK

What’s the big deal, you might rightly ask. We all make mistakes, and that was way back in 2008 — a more innocent time. Avik Roy explains:

On November 4, Jacobson rated as “Pants on Fire” the President’s new claim that “what we said was, you can keep [your plan] if it hasn’t changed since the law passed.” Both pieces were edited by Angie Drobnic Holan, who had initially granted PolitiFact’s seal of approval to Senator Obama’s 2008 promise. Holan delivered the coup de grâce, declaring as PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” the “keep your plan” promise.

“The promise was impossible to keep,” says Holan in her December piece. Now she tells us!

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It’s always about providing a big enough fig leaf to get the legislation passed.

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