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Barack Obama fooled on Supreme Court ruling by CNN, Fox News
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Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jun 28, 2012 02:24pm |
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Author | GLENN THRUSH |
News Date | Thursday, June 28, 2012 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | President Barack Obama was standing outside the Oval Office shortly after 10 a.m. on Thursday, when he saw CNN and FOX reports that the individual mandate, the heart of his health care law, had been overturned by the Roberts court.
A bit crestfallen and anxious for more detail, Obama stood watching the four monitors in the outer Oval Office. A minute later, he was joined by White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, who flashed a double-thumbs-up and informed him the report was wrong.
“The Affordable Care Act,” she said, “has been upheld.”
Obama was confused by the cognitive dissonance of what he was hearing from Ruemmler and what he was seeing on TV. For a few seconds, he gazed at the monitors quizzically, and eventually decided to trust his staff over CNN, according to a senior administration official. |
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