See
Snopes ... and try more thoughtfulness and honesty.
That is what snopes said the actual quote was… so I was honest… does that mean
you should try more thoughtfulness and honesty?
It is snopes personal interpretation I don’t agree with.
No, you implied that the quote was about passing the bill in Congress without legislators knowing what was in it. You characterized it as "with no debate." Here are Pelosi's words, which you accurately posted to
@metis, although you had originally posted a shortened snippet earlier that was not the full quote to
@Tomef :
"We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."
Originally, the rightwing website
Chicks on the Right posted the quote without the boldface portion of it, implying that she was admitting that legislators did not know what was in the bill they were voting on. You perpetuated that false impression when replying to Metis. However, the actual quote was made to the National Association of Counties' annual Legislative Conference on 9 March 2010, in Washington D.C. Pelosi was explaining that the
public would not really know what was in it before it was passed. Here is the paragraph that preceded those very words:
You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention–it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting.
"We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."
This is not just about a "personal interpretation" by Snopes. It is about the facts refuting the false impression that you gave in your reply to
@Tomef and
@metis.
