Speaking on Tuesday, former President Barack Obama decided to lie again. He scolded politicians for lying and denying the truth while seemingly forgetting that he continuously lied to the American people.
Former President Obama: “We see the utter loss of shame among political leaders where they’re caught in a lie and they just double-down and they lie some more.” pic.twitter.com/EOazEOIq9C
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 17, 2018
Here are some of his most famous lies according to The Daily Wire:
“If you like your doctor, you’ll be able to keep your doctor; if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.” Obama told the American people this falsehood and variations of this falsehood while pushing Obamacare. Left-wing Politifact dubbed this the “lie of the year.”
“This (Mexican drug) war is being waged with guns purchased not here, but in the United States. More than 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border,” said Obama in 2009. As noted by James Bovard at The Hill, “This vastly overstated the actual problem, since that statistic measured only firearms that Mexican authorities sent to the U.S. for tracing.” But this was apparently the goal of the Obama administration, since they carried out the secret and scandalous “Fast and Furious” gunrunning operation via the ATF in the fall of 2009, which ended with the murder of a Border Patrol Agent by use of one of the weapons our government provided to a Mexican drug cartel. Some might perceive this entire operation as a “lie.”
“The day after Benghazi happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.” As reported by The Washington Post, “Obama did refer to an ‘act of terror’ in the immediate aftermath of the 2012 Benghazi attacks … Then, over a period of two weeks, given three opportunities in interviews to affirmatively agree that the Benghazi attack was a terrorist attack, the president obfuscated or ducked the question. So this was a case of taking revisionist history too far for political reasons.” Moreover, the administration worked to cover-up the attack as a some sort of spontaneous backlash to a YouTube video.
Obama stated at the conference:
“Too much of politics today seems to reject the concept of objective truth. People just make stuff up,” he continued. “We see it in the growth of state-sponsored propaganda. We see it in internet-driving fabrications. We see it in the blurring of lines between news and entertainment. We see it in the utter loss of shame among political leaders where they’re caught in a lie and they just double-down and they lie some more.”
When a record exists to fact check your statements it would probably be a good idea not to speak to a group of people about lying when it is evident that you lied.
