Pat McCrory is quickly getting known more for what he says than what he does. And what he says is often just not true. The News & Observer did a whole article on his gaffes and then he just kept on making them.
The most recent came in an interview with WFAE last week when he said that he didn’t cut unemployment benefits and then claimed that Duke Energy and IBM stopped offering health insurance to their employees because of Obamacare. Maybe the governor is trying to spin the issues but instead his words just spin out of control. Consequently, he sounds like he’s lying.
Maybe I can help. First, Governor, let’s clarify a few things. Giving your point of view, even if you are withholding facts or interpreting data, is spinning. Saying things that aren’t true or making stuff up is lying.
For instance, you could have said that Obamacare is putting so much pressure on businesses that even large companies are dropping insurance for some of their employees and pushing them into Obamacare. That’s spinning. Saying that Duke Energy and IBM have stopped offering health care, that’s lying.
Similarly, saying that you talk to people on the street regularly and that you are not hearing much dissatisfaction with your administration is spinning. Saying you went to Moral Monday protests when you didn’t is lying.
Saying we have a fiscal mess that requires us to cut spending is spinning. Saying that Perdue left you with a miserable budget that she vetoed but was passed by fellow Republicans Thom Tillis and Phil Berger is either lying or stupid, I’m still not sure which.
Either way, you’re governor. You don’t want to look like a liar or stupid. If your staff hasn’t told you as much, you should fire the whole bunch and start over. If they have and you’re refusing to listen, then you really are stupid. I can’t help you with that.
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Obama lied to the American public…leadership is now lying.
Place the blame where it really belongs! No matter what the intentions of the U.S. President are his powers are limited, The Congress and the House of Representatives bear more responsibility for what ails America than the President does. All they care about is promoting the desires of the Super Rich.
Yup, that’s our Governor Pants on Fire! He wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him in the butt..
If the truth bit him in the butt, he would either spin it and say he bit truth in the butt instead, or he would lie and say it “compacted” him in the butt instead.
If Ignorance is bliss, this dude is the happiest guy in the universe.
The tip of his nose leans to the right, indicator that he is extreme right wing, they wouldn’t know how to carry truth if you wrote truth on paper and told them to carry it to the trash!
He’s lying and he knows it and he’s so stupid he thinks he can get away with it.
He has got away with it so far. And he is keeping so many people that can’t afford insurance from getting it with the Affordable Care Act.