the affordable care ct, as it was improperly and inaccurately labeled, there was an article from ben shapiro, on e bart, today, that said friday, politifact bowed to the inevitable and named president obama's quote if you like your health care plan you can keep it, unquote, statement, its lie of the year that came after politifact labeled that statement, quote, half true nquote, in 2012 and defended its half true rating in october 2013. now they say it was a catchy political pitch and a chance to calm nerves about his dramatic and complicated plan to bring historic change to america's health care system but the promise was impossible to keep. of course there's more to the story than that. the promise was a lie when it was made given that they knew at the time that insurance plans would be cancel bud politifact, even in naming the statement the lie of the year, soft pedaled that. he fought back against -- talking about the president, fought back against attacks with his own oversimplifications which he repeated even as it became clear his promise was too sweeping. even politifact doing all th