NYTimes: Obama ‘misspoke’ when he claimed Americans could keep their health insurance

Daily Caller ^ | November 3, 2013 | Jeff Pour

[Cincinatus' Wife]

In its Sunday paper, The New York Times editorial board defended President Barack Obama from criticisms that he had intentionally misled the public when he had claimed if an individual likes their health insurance plan, they could keep their health insurance plan.

The paper’s board also attacked congressional Republicans for stoking fear and confusion, writing that Obama “clearly misspoke” when he repeatedly claimed Americans could keep their health insurance plans as he fought to pass the law and defend it during the 2012 election.

“Mr. Obama clearly misspoke when he said that,” the editorial read. “By law, insurers cannot continue to sell policies that don’t provide the minimum benefits and consumer protections required as of next year. So they’ve sent cancellation notices to hundreds of thousands of people who hold these substandard policies. (At issue here are not the 149 million people covered by employer plans, but the 10 million to 12 million people who buy policies directly on the individual market.)”

Later in the editorial, the Times described Obama’s contradicted claims as an overblown controversy.

“This overblown controversy has also obscured the crux of what health care reform is trying to do, which is to guarantee that everyone can buy insurance without being turned away or charged exorbitant rates for pre-existing conditions and that everyone can receive benefits that really protect them against financial or medical disaster, not illusory benefits that prove inadequate when a crisis strikes,” the editorial said.

[Rock N Jones]

Misspoke?

Is the New York Times bragging or complaining?

[John S Mosby]

“Miss-speaking”? No, that would be if he used the WRONG words— he didn’t. He used exactly the words he wanted to and intended to, AND he intended to LIE to force an illegal takeover of 17% or our economy.

The NYTimes should be ashamed but won’t inasmuch as they LIE all the time as well.... oh, sorry,.... they “mis-print” LOL and gag me with a maggot. What absolute horse truds.

[John S Mosby]

True meaning of mis-spoke is to say the wrong words or make an error in usage of words, grammar etc. Not lying, no, that is called lying.

[SES1066]

As far as the NY Times is concerned; “The truth is not in them!”

[John S Mosby]

The same Boston Scientific, pacemaker company that just fired 1500 people in HQ in Baaaaahston. Because of obamaumaocare — wonder how much they paid to have an inside scoop sit on their Board? Sickening by the minute.

[clamper1797]

He did not “misspeak” ... he lied

[RedMDer]

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

Misspoke:

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promote

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bs

bull

con

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dupe

equivocate

exaggerate

fabricate

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fib

forswear

frame

fudge

invent

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misguide

misinform

misspeak

misstate

overdraw

palter

perjure

pervert

phony

plant

prevaricate

snow

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victimize

be untruthful

bear false witness

break promise

go back on

make believe

misinstruct

put on

put up a front

http://thesaurus.com/browse/misspoke

[SunkenCiv]

57 states... “my Muslim faith”... Partisan Media Shills ping.

Thanks Cincinatus’ Wife.

[catnipman]

BTW, everyone should take a look at the NYC comments. Almost no one is buying the Slime's BS editorial that Bambie was "mis-speaking" and that the KommieKare disaster is all the fault of the Republicans and conservatives for spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/opinion/sunday/insurance-policies-not-worth-keeping.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

Too bad this sort of blatant partisan hackmanship doesn't affect the Slimes' bottom line.

[TigersEye]

NYTs: Hitler mispoke when he promised not to invade Czechoslovakia

[Secret Agent Man]

Wow.

Goebbels would have loved to have had these guys working for him.

Good grief. This IS like 1984. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Clearly misspoke. Repeatedly. He misspoke a promise. What Obama himself called a promise. How he SOLD this to people. It was in his stump speech for over a year.

They really expect people to believe this horsesh1t they’re shoveling? And take them as objective journalists?

I swear every lib newspaper today IS the Onion.

[wiggen]

26 or 28 i think is the number.

[tumblindice]

A Democrat always “misspoke” while a non-Democrat “should just do the right thing and resign.”
The Slimes doth sucketh.

[Secret Agent Man]

That depiction is actually incorrect.

Adam was NOT present when the serpent spoke to Eve.

[tbpiper]

cancellation notices to hundreds of thousands of people who hold these substandard policies

I'd like to point out two things:

1) These so called "substandard" policies are generally ones that the people liked and could afford.

2) They are called "substandard" because the powers that be and their presstitue enablers think they're smarter than us common folk.

[SkyDancer]

I guess I should have made that plural - misspoken 27 times ...

[gitmo]

Correct.

[fhayek]

It’s really our fault. We don’t understand Obonics.

[Secret Agent Man]

I kinda wish he would have been. To deal with the effin snake.