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President Obama traveled all the way to China to praise the free flow of information. It's the only safe place he could do so without getting heckled. With a straight face, Obama lauded political dissent and told Chinese students he welcomed unfettered criticism in America. Fierce opposition, he said, made him "a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I don't want to hear." How do you say "You lie!" in Mandarin?
While the kowtower-in-chief's press shop feeds paeans to free speech into Obama's globetrotting teleprompter, the White House is still waging war on vocal foes at...
Obama's Doubletalk on Political Dissent
First, take the most malign interpretation of whatever he says. If no malignity is apparent, then just assume he's lying through his teeth, and start from there.
You won't find many problems with the track record of that approach.