'Hahahahahahahahaha'! Sorry, Josh Earnest, but nobody's seriously buying this Obamacare spin [video]

Sarah D. | 2:43 PM on May 16, 2016

https://twitter.com/SNienow/status/732272518019612672

It can’t be easy being Josh Earnest, having to constantly tie yourself up in painful knots trying to explain away all of President Obama’s bad policies and miserable failures.

That said, it’s hard to be super-sympathetic to a guy who tries to pass pure fiction off as fact:

The private healthcare market is just better today than it was before #Obamacare – that's just a fact says @PressSec

— Jennifer Wishon (@JenniferWishon) May 16, 2016

Let’s go to the videotape:

Transcript:

This is an argument we’ve been making for six years: The health insurance market is a lot better for private citizens now than it was before the Affordable Care Act. That’s just a fact. And I know that’s a fact that Republicans like to deny, but, um, it’s the truth.

Is it, Josh? Because you could’ve fooled a lot of people.