At a year-end news conference President Obama was asked about his reaction to Politifact’s report calling his statements regarding coverage under ObamaCare the “Lie of the Year”.
Q: Since we’ve been looking back at the year, I’d like to ask you what your reaction was to the nonpartisan truth-telling group PolitiFact when it said that the Lie of the Year was your statement that if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.
And related to the health care problems that we’ve seen over the past year, the fallout from that seems to be making Democrats, particularly in the Senate, a little rambunctious and independent of you, which is evidenced most clearly in the debate over the Iran sanctions. It looks like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has expedited consideration of an Iran sanctions bill for January, even as your administration and you have been trying to get them to lay off sanctions while you’re —
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Jackie, I got to say, you’re — you’re stringing a bunch of things along here. Let’s — let’s —
Q: Well —
PRESIDENT OBAMA: — let’s see if we can hone in on a question. I mean, I — I —
Q: Two questions.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well — (chuckles) —
Q: That’s a lot less than Ed Henry had. (Laughter, groans.)
Q: Wow! I thought we were trying to get along — (inaudible).
PRESIDENT OBAMA: All right. (Inaudible.) Now I can see who’s —
Q: (Inaudible) — you — (inaudible) — each other.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: (Chuckles.) The — how about I separate out the Iran question separate out the Iran question from the health care question?
