Heh!
Via NRO:
Representative Steve Stockman (R., Texas) has already offered an invitation to next year’s State of the Union address to Chad Henderson, who was thought to be one of the first enrollees in the federal Affordable Care Act exchanges and attracted a great deal of press attention for it, before later admitting he did not actually enroll. Stockman described Henderson as “Obamacare personified.”
“He pushed Obamacare on other people but refused to buy it himself because he would pay more,” Stockman said in a statement. “He’s practically a Democrat member of Congress.”
Update: Here’s the press release from Stockman’s office:
WASHINGTON — Chad Henderson, the Tennessee Obama activist who misled reporters about his supposed success in buying an ObamaCare policy, tells The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross he has accepted Congressman Steve Stockman’s invitation to be his guest at January’s State of the Union Address.
“I look forward to giving Chad the opportunity to attend the State of the Union Address. Now when President Obama speaks about ObamaCare the media will have someone they can cut to,” said Stockman. “I encourage the President to acknowledge him and his story.”
After a nationwide search for one person who had benefitted from ObamaCare turned up nothing, the national news media made Henderson a celebrity last week by rushing to report claims he successfully purchased an ObamaCare policy. They did not reveal he was actually an activist for Obama’s “Organizing for America” political group.
Most of the mainstream media also failed to later report his father’s admission Chad never actually purchased a plan. Few, if any, media outlets retracted the false stories.
Henderson’s original story was broken by the Chattanooga Times Free-Press, which earlier this year fired an editor for a headline mocking Obama.
Henderson also claims to make a below-poverty income, but last year donated $1,000 to Obama election efforts.