Though the president and his advisers have amended their claims about the Affordable Care Act in the wake of accumulating reports that Americans across the country are receiving cancellation notices from their insurance companies — “If you had a plan before the Affordable Care Act passed that hasn’t been changed or canceled, you can keep it,” senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told George Stephanopoulos on Sunday — the White House website has yet to receive an update. A page dedicated to the ACA contains the statement below, which echoes the empty promise the president made as he stumped for the law: “If you like the insurance you have, keep it.”

The White House blog also contains the video below, which was posted in 2009. It features the communications director of the White House’s Health Reform Office, Linda Douglass, lambasting those who raised questions about the president’s promise and refuting claims made in “scary chain e-mails and videos” that were “starting to percolate on the Internet.” “One of my jobs is to keep track of all the disinformation that’s out there about health-insurance reform,” Douglass explained, “and there are a lost of very deceiving headlines out there right now.”

Douglass was clear about who the villains were: “People who always try to scare people whenever you try to bring them health-insurance reform are at it again,” she said, accusing them of “taking sentences and phrases out of context and cobbling them together to leave a very false impression.”

“There are people out there with a computer and a lot of free time,” she continued, ”and they take a phrase here and there and they simply cherrypick and put it together and they make it sound like he’s saying something that he didn’t really say.”

“Here is a clip that they probably won’t show you,” she said, before rolling tape of the president making his infamous promise, saying the following: ”Here is a guarantee that I’ve made: if you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance. If you’ve got a doctor that you like, you will be able to keep your doctor.”

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The post is titled “Facts are Stubborn Things.” The White House is certainly learning that now.