The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

World’s Heaviest Jewels
“3 Charged Over 40 Million Pound Jewel Heist in UK”–headline, Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), Aug. 21

Stable Condition
Remember how Yasser Arafat used to talk peace in English while promising in Arabic to drive the Jews into the sea? We’re reminded of this by the debate over ObamaCare. In English, its supporters keep insisting that the so-called public option–essentially, establishing a new insurance company run by the federal government–is totally different from what is known as single-payer, the complete nationalization of the medical-insurance industry.

But a new video on YouTube demonstrates that, like Arafat, the Obamacarers are talking out of both sides of their mouth. The two-minute video simply strings together a series of clips saying the opposite, beginning with Sen. Russ Feingold (D., Wis.), in an interview with the public-access cable show “Democracy Now!”:

Q: Do you support single-payer health care?

Feingold: I do. I always have. I don’t think there’s any possibility that that will come out of this Congress, and so for people to simply say that’s this way or nothing, are looking at something that can’t happen now. But I would love to see it, and I believe the goal here is to create whatever legislation we have in a way that could be developed into something like a single-payer system.

Here’s Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, now secretary of health and human services, speaking at Harvard in 2007:

I’m all for a single-payer system eventually. I think what we have to do, though, is work with what we’ve got to close the gap.

Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.), last month:

I think if we get a good public option, it could lead to single-payer, and that’s the best way to reach single-payer.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, answering a question in June:

Q: Hey Rahm, why did the president take single-payer off the table?

Unidentified woman: Look, sorry. I’m sorry, we don’t have time for this.

Q: No, in 2003, he said he was for single payer, and now he’s against it. Why did he flip-flop?

Emanuel: Because as I just–it’s what I just said in there.

Q: What?

Emanuel: The objective is what’s important. It’s not the means.

And here’s a finger-wagging Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D., Ill.):

This is not a principled fight. This is a fight about strategy for getting there, and I believe we will!

Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. Apparently Norwegians only understand English. But unlike Arafat, these pols are stating their true intentions in English. Which makes it all the more inexcusable when media outlets like the Associated Press (see our item yesterday) produce pro-ObamaCare propaganda and claim to be debunking “myths.”

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