The Fact Checker started during the 2008 campaign and then went on hiatus for the first two years of President Obama’s presidency before becoming a permanent Washington Post feature in 2011. All told, we’ve fact-checked more than 250 statements by Obama.
With his presidency coming to a close, here’s a look at 10 of Obama’s biggest whoppers, listed in chronological order. All of these earned Four Pinocchios, of course, but they also landed on our annual list of the biggest Pinocchios of the year.
To keep it simple, we have shortened the quotes in the headlines. To read the full column, click on the link embedded in the quote.
“More young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America”
This was a 2007 campaign claim by Obama, then a senator, that was wildly off the mark. In reality, there are five times more black men enrolled in colleges and universities than young black men in federal and state prisons — and two and half times the total number incarcerated (including local jails). Even if you expanded the age group to include African American males up to 30 or 35, the college attendees would still outnumber the prisoners.
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“We signed into law the biggest middle-class tax cut in history”
This 2011 claim was not based on a dollar figure but on dubious math — that supposedly 95 percent of working families received some kind of tax cut under the Making Work Pay provision in Obama’s stimulus bill. John F. Kennedy actually wins the prize for biggest tax cut, at least in the last half-century. By the same measure, the income tax provisions of George W. Bush tax cuts were more than twice as large as Obama’s tax cut over the same three-year time span. (While a large portion of Bush’s tax cut went to the wealthy, it also benefited the working poor.)
“90 percent of the budget deficit is due to George W. Bush’s policies”
During the 2012 campaign, Obama repeatedly reminded voters that he became president during a grim economic crisis. But he went too far when he claimed that only 10 percent of the federal deficit was due to his own policies. About half of the deficit stemmed from the recession and forecasting errors, but a large chunk (44 percent in 2011) were the result of Obama’s actions. At another point, Obama also falsely suggested that the Bush tax cuts led to the Great Recession.
This memorable promise by Obama backfired on him in 2013 when the Affordable Care Act went into effect and at least 2 million Americans started receiving cancellation notices. As we explained, part of the reason for so many cancellations is because of an unusually early (March 23, 2010) cutoff date for grandfathering plans — and because of tight regulations written by the administration. So the uproar could be pinned directly on the administration’s own actions.
President Obama offered an evocative image at a 2013 news conference when the sequester spending cuts struck the federal budget — janitors sweeping the empty halls of the Capitol, laboring for less pay. But it turned out that he was completely wrong. Janitorial staff did not face a pay cut — and Capitol Hill administrative officials even issued a statement saying the president’s remarks were “not true.” Then the White House tried to argue that janitors at least faced a loss of overtime. That was not correct either. The episode was emblematic of the administration’s overheated rhetoric during the sequester debate.
“The day after Benghazi happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism”
Obama did refer to an “act of terror” in the immediate aftermath of the 2012 Benghazi attacks, but in vague terms, wrapped in a patriotic fervor. He never affirmatively stated that the American ambassador died because of an “act of terror.” 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.
In 2014, Obama repeated a claim, crafted by the White House communications team, that he was not “specifically” referring to the Islamic State terror group when he dismissed the militants who had taken over Fallujah as a “JV squad.” But The Fact Checker obtained the previously unreleased transcript of the president’s interview with the New Yorker, and it’s clear that’s who the president was referencing.
Obama, a former senator, got quite a few things wrong in this 2014 claim. He spoke of legislation that would help the middle class, but he was counting cloture votes that mostly involved judicial and executive branch nominations. Moreover, he counted all the way back to 2007, meaning he even included votes in which he, as senator, voted against ending debate — the very thing he decried in his remarks. At best, he could claim the Republicans had blocked about 50 bills, meaning he was off by a factor of 10.
“The Keystone pipeline is for oil that bypasses the United States”
Long before Obama killed the Keystone pipeline project in 2015, he made a number of dubious claims about it, including that the pipeline would have no benefit for American producers at all. But the crude oil would have traveled to the Gulf Coast, where it would be refined into products such as motor gasoline and diesel fuel; the State Department said odds were low that all would be exported. Also, about 12 percent of the pipeline’s capacity had been set aside for crude from North Dakota and Montana.
“We have fired a whole bunch of people who are in charge of these [VA] facilities”
Obama in 2016 misled the public about the number of people held accountable for the 2014 scandal over manipulated wait-time data at the Department of Veterans Affairs, which contributed to patient deaths. Congress responded by passing a law that sped up disciplinary actions for senior executive service employees. But when Obama made his statement in September, only one senior executive had been removed for a case involving wait time (though the actual firing was for an ethics violation).
“Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true.” – G. K. Chesterton. “Orthodoxy” (chapter “The Maniac”)
Anyone who was able to read his history in 2008 knew he was a coffee house Marxist.All Marxist are envious thieves and pathological liars.They have to lie and hide their real agenda from the public.Not many white people would be stupid enough to vote for a known Communist.I have hated that piece of shit since day one.So glad he is gone.Maybe we will get Lucky and he will have a bad accident.
Amen
This notion of filibuster tweeks me. I think there might have been one actual filibuster by Paul & Cruz. That cretin Reid made a rule where all they had to do was ‘threaten’ a filibuster and it was so. That’s bs.
Obama is a black piece of lying shit that should be now flushed down the toilet of history. This worthless turd is gone as of tomorrow!
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pssssst. I think that is racist or something. It certainly insults the Clampetts.
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I never new who was the bigger liar, Barry or Hillary. Am still not sure, close tie, but I think HilLIARy has the edge. The biggest tool that Progressives have to gain power, money, & control is the “lie;” and they use it very liberally…pun very much intended.
Racism and intolerance aside…
Cowboy George and Tony Blair created a wholly-fraudulent LIE: Iraq.
It was created to undermine the “Euro” and it is part-and-parcel of the proxy of “Islam v Islam”, created with the American CIA as Bitch for English oilmen, Google: “Mossadeq and Operation Ajax”.
The American Mob is quite capable of fielding our own players… Thanks and it is well-beyond the time bogus, race-baiting nonsense continues to crowd the agenda.
The criminal, English-Based Parasite, of Central Banking and the European Cartel, need burp-up, centuries’-worth, of what they have stolen, while creating social rift, in the American fabric.
Nowadays, a dunce, with the historical understanding of such, as Bachman, or, the Imbecile-from-Wasilla-Ville, keep foaming on about nonsense…
Obama is a tool, no less than any Republican or Democrat and he is at least, as corrupt as any that have gone before… but … by all means, keep deluding yourselves: “one side is less corrupt, in service to an English_Based, Central Banking Cartel, than the other”.
Google: “the Fairholme Action”. Federal Judge Margaret Sweeny is revealing Obama robbed all the revenue streams and, in fact, the “loans”, themselves that were once thought to be in portfolios controlled by Fannie and Freddie. Also, visit Tim Howard’s Blog on the subject. F&F were intended to open the franchise of home ownership to minority communities, instead, Obama has displaced millions, from those communities, while robbing their homes in phony foreclosures- Google: 1200 Trillion and derivatives. The Clintons deregged “Glass-Steagall with Gramm, Leach and Bliley to open the curtain on these criminal behaviors; the Clintons then deregged “derivatives”, now there are 1200 trillion owed to these phony scam home repossessions. The banks involved, are fixin’ to saddle the US with their criminal, unsustainable debt. The good news is: their debts are unlawful and We The People must resist, jail the bankers, nationalize the banks and kick them to the curb.
Fannie and Freddie were created to open home ownership and the American Dream to minorities.
The Obama Administration, particularly Worn-out, two-tongue Warren, have sold Fannie and Freddie and minority families, to a criminal, central banking cartel…
President Obama, the Judas Goat…
Uncle Tom at the tiller of the Big Banker’s Boat.
Once colored a “donkey” for the DNC vote
Now sinking, with Warren,
Two turds that won’t float.
James Comey was on the executive board of HSBC, an English-Chinese hybrid- Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, while it was known to be using counterfeit American Mortgages to launder Terror and drug money, for enemies of the US engaged in murdering American soldiers.
If you’re having a sandwich, call on James Comey;
When it comes to the Clintons: He’s full of baloney.
He’s not fixed for a hero
More : submarine sandwich
And there’s evidence now he can’t provide for a manwich.
But his chicken is good
And while his feathers are yellow,
The Clintons have plucked him; he’s now boneless and mellow.
He once was a slaw man but he’s now into a pickle
While his digestion has turned and his appetite fickle.
Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder both concealed the fact, James Comey’s Bank was laundering terror and drug money. Eric Holder wrote the “Deferred Prosecution Agreement” listing at least 4 Treasonous violations. One of which is a violation of “Trading With The Enemies Act”.
At the moment, Obama is “Lynching” the Nation.
He is now just a scaffold for Clinton Castration.
He reached within his chest of drawers
To pack the Bureau with Clinton whores.
The first of which, Loretta Lynch,
Is just another Clinton Donkey;
Grinding DNC organ,
For the Clinton Monkey.
And We The People must never forget the HSBC Banker:
Now FBI Director Comey:
A peerless Coward and Corruption’s Homey…
So, PBO thought to himself: “While that monkey’s on Clinton’s back,
“Let’s hire ourselves an FBI Hack”:
Loretta the Mule.
A sterile result for all to see, of Law Enforcement that sits to Pee.
The thoroughly-bred Mule,
Now on plantation,
That won’t raise a hand to save the Nation.
Both Lynch and Holder concealed the fact Holder’s Law Firm, “Covington-Burling”, created the impossibly corrupt-beyond-belief, phony Electronic Boutique- The “Mortgage Electronic Registration System”. It is used to rob homes in phony foreclosures using counterfeit title.
There isn’t one, single, legitimate “REMIC Trust” and the contracts, governing those “TRUSTS” (Pooling and Servicing Agreements), are sheer fantasy, while used to allow criminal banking insiders to claim homes that never belonged to them, in the first place (Google: “Bucketeering”)
Lorretta Lynch and Eric Holder
Two crimes of inaction; each bolder-than-bolder.
Eric Holder, held US down while the banksters robbed homes in every town.
They used the “MERS” to murder our dreams,
And poison our children through criminal schemes.
While, not so much as a one, has gone to jail,
Through Holder’s NONSENSE… Of “Too Big To Fail”-
I VOTE HOLDER, THE FIRST ONE TO NAIL.
Barack Obama is a coward, or worse. Andrew Jackson, for all his faults, set himself directly in the path of the criminal bankers that once tried to destroy this nation as executives in the “2nd National Bank”. The President of the 2nd National Bank, Nicholas Biddle, told Jackson he would destroy his presidency.
Jackson disarmed one assassin Biddle sent to kill him … personally.
Biddle died a pauper in prison. Jackson is described as an American Lion, for obvious reasons.
Barack Obama: no “American Lion”;
While not quite above, putting the “lie-on”,
For the crime that is Clinton; Democracy’s Canker
And the Treason to Britain, as a “Federal … Reservation… Banker”.
Now, not so much a riddle, while once there was Biddle;
A “Tubman” to “Jackson”, Obama’s inaction, smacks of coercion and political faction.
There’s nothing “Left” of Obama,
While he’s now “Right” in the middle…
A panned-cake, filled with BS of Bought-and-Sold,
A nutless brownie, now burned by the griddle.
Barack Obama is a betrayal of the American People incarnate. He is presently, single-handedly, destroying any chance minority families may ever purchase a home in the US. His theft of “loans” within F&F is merely a part of an intentional, “Boom-and-Bust Cycle” the banks have deliberately disguised as, “The Financial Crisis”.
Visit the “Fairholme Action” and learn of Federal Judge Margaret Sweeny’s courageous reply to political corruption.
Obama is a SCAM and the Central Bankers are criminal Filth.
Visit Tim Howard’s Blog on the investor’s take on how they have been defrauded by the Obama Administration:
https://timhoward717.com/2016/04/12/truth-unleashed-governments-scheme-exposed-full-unsealeddocument-release-enclosed/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/20/bill-hillary-lynch-grand-jury-and-emails/
~ Michael Keane
reworked- 9/12/16
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Careful, son.
Not too terribly long ago Admin opened up a can of Whoop Ass on poor Flash for his incessant copy-and-paste ways.
Don’t you go making the same mistake; we’ve seen variations of the above screed before – several times.
THE LARGEST LIE OF ALL, Barry Soetoro aka Obama, was NOT born within the U.S.A. and yes, his birth certificate IS A FALSE DOCUMENT and he should be charged, period!!!
To numerous to count.
A lie told the Public just before Barry took office was that Bush caused the so-called recession, when in reality, it was engineered, by the Progressives, from time of Carter thru & beyond Clinton, with direction of Dodd-Frank. They are the “recession engineers.”