[Son House]

Instead, he could have told a poignant truth about Government interference that raise health insurance cost, to make a case for health-insurance deregulation.

It's getting too obvious Obama's health care is going to be a hand-out of tax payers money for votes.

[driftdiver]

You mean BO lied?

[South40]

So something that came out of Obozo’s mouth wasn’t true? I know me and at least one Representative are shocked.

[politicalmerc]

Faulty Anecdote? You Yankees in the press have a funny way of saying things. Us uneducated hicks have a more direct description when someone uses a "faulty anecdote" to deceive people. We generally just say something simple like:

You lie!

Is it just me, or does that make more sense?

[Diogenesis]

Fox News: Always biased, always lying, and always covering up for their Obama.

[MarkT]

I am from the South and therefore unreliable. Do I remember correctly that some guy from Texas who recently was President said something about yellowcake in Iraq - the phrase ‘16 words’ rings a bell - and was pilloried for that? I believe the operative phrase was, “Bush lied, people died.” Now, the operative phrase is ‘faulty anecdote.’ My, my, how the times, they be a changin.

[Jemian]

He is the PREVARICATOR-IN-CHIEF.

He LIES!!! Just speakin’ truth to power.

Caligula doesn’t know the truth. It isn’t in him.

[JHL]

These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.

...oh wait, wrong president, wrong speech.

[a fool in paradise]

Everyone who has received medical treatment eventually died.

WHERE ARE THE LAYWERS?!!!

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping

[Red in Blue PA]

So then OBAMA LIED?

[Haiku Guy]

Obama Used Faulty Anecdote in Speech to Congress

He LIED!

[RetSignman]

“He’s a Jackass”

[silverleaf]

He lied

[Scoutmaster]

That's not the only "evil insurance company" anecdote told by Obama during the speech in which he lied by leaving out the facts.

His second example was a Texas woman "about to get a double mastectomy when her insurance company canceled her policy because she forgot to declare a case of acne." He said that "By the time she had her insurance reinstated, her breast cancer more than doubled in size."

President Obama's story is contradicted by the transcript of a June 16 hearing on industry practices before the Subcommittee of Oversight and Investigation of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The woman's testimony at the June 16 hearing confirms that her surgery was delayed several months.

However, her testimony also suggests that the dermatologist's chart may have described her skin condition as precancerous, that the insurer also took issue with an apparent failure to disclose an earlier problem with an irregular heartbeat, and that she knowingly underreported her weight on the application.

So . . . it's convenient to say it was acne and it makes the insurers sound particularly evil.

I guess it wouldn't be as compelling, would it Mr. President, if you told the truth? That she failed to disclose precancerous skin conditions (were they treated?) and an irregular heartbeat, and underreported her weight (and I'm guessing by quite a bit -- not that I have the facts, but it's clear that President Obama didn't have the facts either).

Should the insurance company have denied coverage? Perhaps it shouldn't. I don't know enough about her previous conditions.

Should the President have left out precancerous skin conditions, an irregular heartbeat and (perhaps grossly) underreported weight? Nope. That's lying by ommision -- because his anecdote wouldn't have been as compelling had he told the truth.