Our Lyin' Eyes

IBD Editorials ^ | August 5, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

Chicanery: On health care, taxes and grass-roots protests, the White House seems to be echoing Chico Marx's famous line in the film "Duck Soup": "Who you gonna believe — me or your own eyes?"

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We may see the video of President Obama telling one labor union that he wants to eliminate private health insurance, and telling another that he is "a proponent of single-payer universal health care coverage . . . that's what I'd like to see."

We may hear liberal economists inside and outside the administration warn of the president having to break his middle-class tax pledge. We may behold angry voters hounding Democratic lawmakers about impending socialism.

But according to the White House, it's all just our lyin' eyes.

The administration, for instance, put together a three-minute video hosted by former ABC News correspondent Linda Douglass, who claimed that the enemies of government expansion of medical insurance are "taking sentences and phrases out of context and cobbling them together to leave a very false impression."

According to Douglass, "they simply cherry-pick and put it together and make it sound like he's saying something that he didn't really say."

[Kaslin]