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Hi, I'm Stuart Shepard. This is Stoplight.
What are you looking at?
It's a little scrapbook. It's good to remember the old days.
Those are all quotes from the White House web site.
Yeah. I keep seeing clips of the president on Facebook.
"If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance."
But, you know, he says his critics are taking that out of context.
Well, if that's true, that means his critics are working for him at the White House.
Because the web site is overflowing with quotes going back for years, defending what he originally said.
Here's a page called "Reality Check" --
"You can keep your own insurance. If you like your doctor, you can keep it."
It must be the new robotic doctor. -- This page is titled "Facts are Stubborn Things."
He's certainly got a point there.
This video from 2009 says it will "Debunk the mythology."
"You know the people who always try to scare people whenever you try to bring them health insurance
reform are at it again."
"There are people out there with a computer and a lot of free time, and they 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. Now, for example, here's a clip that they
probably won't show you."
"Here's a guarantee that I've made. If you have insurance that you like. Then you will
be able to keep that insurance."
So, the very clip that the White House used in 2009 to "debunk the mythology", is now the
very clip they say people don't understand.
The argument goes like this: If the president says it, it's true, and you're wrong.
And, if the president now says that what he said is not what he was saying, then that
becomes what's true -- and you're still wrong.
You know what they say, "if you like your president..."