Media Matters caught Fox News deliberately quoting Obama grossly out of context. In fact, that's an understatement… they deliberately misuse a video clip of Obama to totally and unabashedly misrepresent the policy he advocates.
In a video clip played several times by Fox News, to show how extreme Obama is on the issue of health care, they show him asking, "Now, the question is, if you're going to fix it, why not do a universal health care system like the European countries?"
The thing is: at the time, Obama was LITERALLY READING A QUESTION FROM THE AUDIENCE off a computer screen. If you watch the full video, he then goes on to say that while his goal is universal health care, he does not necessarily support a European-style solution, and would prefer building it onto our current system.
I can't imagine a benign explanation for this.
Via Daily Kos…
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