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In another display of adapting campaign tactics to governing, the White House posted a video on its official website Tuesday to rebut accusations that President Obama's healthcare proposals would do away with private health insurance.
The video shows White House spokeswoman Linda Douglass sitting in front of a computer monitor displaying the Drudge Report website.
Douglass says that because the president has talked so much about healthcare, he is at risk of having his words distorted by people with
"a computer and a lot of free time" who "take a phrase here and there, they simply cherry pick and put it together and make it sound like he's saying something that he didn't really say."
You mean Obama never said what he said in this video? Here is what he supposedly never said:
"I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process..."
And here is what Obama said with greater specificity about his support for single payer in a 2003 speech to the AFL-CIO in another uncut, not cherry-picked, video which was left on both the Linda Douglass and Peter Nicholas cutting room floor:
"I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House."
Somehow Nicholas couldn't be bothered to report on what was actually said in these two videos in question.
Beam me up, Scotty. How do you answer charges when you simply ignore the facts presented in them? Only by pretending that what your lyin' eyes saw didn't happen. And both Douglass and Nicholas conveniently dropped those videos linked from the Drudge Report down the memory hole.
[So watch them {video}{video} yourself and ask; out of context? 'cherry-picked'?]
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