{"id":4542,"date":"2013-12-19T18:36:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T22:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2013-12-19T18:36:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T22:36:39","slug":"a-twofer-for-barry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/a-twofer-for-barry\/","title":{"rendered":"A twofer for Barry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <em>Dear Leader<\/em> has racked up two new awards.<\/p>\n<p>First, the left leaning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/DC-Decoder\/Decoder-Wire\/2013\/1214\/Lie-of-the-Year-Why-Obama-s-healthcare-claim-is-a-winner-video\">Politico picked his signature line, &#8220;If like your health insurance, you can keep it,&#8221; as the 2013 Lie of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\/wp\/2013\/12\/16\/the-biggest-pinocchios-of-2013\/\">Washington Post selected Barry&#8217;s same signature line as the &#8220;Biggest Pinocchio&#8221; of the Year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is quite telling that the President who promised the &#8220;most transparent administration ever&#8221;, has his signature line about his signature policy, selected by two separate news organizations as the biggest lie of 2013. \u00a0To be fair,<a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/181471\/\"> the &#8220;most\u00a0transparent administration ever&#8221; promise was a huge lie also<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2013\/12\/24\/obamas-epic-fibs-about-the-nsa\">Obama&#8217;s Epic Fib About the NSA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/dec\/22\/curl-from-hope-and-change-to-ill-do-better\/\">Into Year 6, Obama admits he\u2019s clueless<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/directorblue.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/politifact-has-now-officially-completed.html\">Two sources point out that<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volokh.com\/2013\/12\/29\/politifacts-lie-year-part-deux\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">Politico rated their &#8220;Lie of the Year&#8221; as true before the 2012 election<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Dear Leader has racked up two new awards. First, the left leaning Politico picked his signature line, &#8220;If like your health insurance, you can keep it,&#8221; as the 2013 Lie of the Year. Then, the Washington Post selected Barry&#8217;s same signature line as the &#8220;Biggest Pinocchio&#8221; of the Year. It is quite telling that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,19],"tags":[140,251,262,414,478,486,497,621,638,640,839],"class_list":["post-4542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-incompetent","tag-leftist","tag-liberal","tag-lying-liar","tag-politics","tag-quote","tag-quotes","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1bg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}