False Narrative No. 4: Romney and Ryan are perpetrating a “Big Lie” when they claim that Obama cut $716 billion from Medicare to fund Obamacare.
Rebuttal: No, they’re actually perpetrating a Big Truth. Or, alternatively, President Obama was perpetrating a “Big Lie” when he flatly admitted in 2009 that a third of Obamacare’s funding came from cutting Medicare. But speaking of dishonesty, it is highly deceptive of the Obama campaign to target seniors when they campaign against Romney/Ryan Medicare reforms. The clear implication is that the reforms would affect current seniors, but the truth is that the Romney plan would not apply to current seniors or anyone who would become a senior in the next decade. And for anyone still not convinced that Romney and Ryan are telling the truth, here’s the clincher: Stephanie Cutter says they’re lying.
False Narrative No. 5: Romney and Ryan are perpetrating another “Big Lie” when they claim that Obama is gutting the work requirement from welfare.
Rebuttal: On this one, I refer you to Mickey Kaus’s excellent work in The Daily Caller to expose how the supposedly unbiased fact-checkers got it wrong. Perhaps the president’s supporters should spend more time checking their own facts and less time shrieking hysterically about how other people are liars.
False Narrative No. 6: Even though unemployment has been stuck over 8 percent for a record 43 straight months, real unemployment is close to 19 percent, economic growth is stagnant, our debt has soared above the size of our economy to a record $16 trillion, Obama added more debt in just his first three years than Bush added in eight, we’ve lost our top credit rating for the first time in history and our global competitiveness rank has plunged from first to seventh, we’re “absolutely” better off than we were when President Obama took office.
Rebuttal: [Laughter].
David B. Cohen served in the administration of President George W. Bush as U.S. Representative to the Pacific Community, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and as a member of the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He is the author of Left-Hearted, Right-Minded: Why Conservative Policies Are The Best Way To Achieve Liberal Ideals.
