The
amazing evolution of
Politifact’s ‘if you
like your plan you can
keep it’ rating
**Written by Doug Powers
Politifact’s
rating of the famous Obama promise “if you
like your plan you can
keep it” has
gone through a heck of an evolution in the past five years.
In
October of 2008 “if you
like your plan you can
keep it” was totally true:
Less than four years later, in
June of 2012 it was downgraded to “half true” (“true,” but only for the people who could manage to
keep their plans):
However, in
October of 2012, Mitt Romney had a close brush with the truth, but Politifact nevertheless rated it totally “false”:
**w, “If you
like your plan you can
keep it” has been deemed
2013′s “Lie of the Year”:
The “promise was impossible to keep”? Better late than never, I suppose.
“If you
like your plan you can
keep it” is actually the lie of the
century, but that would negate their previous ratings, so “year” will have to suffice.
You might have **ticed that the ratings most helpful to Obama — Oct. 2008′s “Obama’s promise is completely true” and Oct. 2012′s “Romney’s claim is completely false” — are the ones
coincidentally closest to the elections.
**Written by Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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