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Old 12-19-2010, 07:06 PM
 
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It comes from the right wing propaganda machine of course and eagerly believed by their Fox viewing lemmings.

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/...r-health-care/

Right winger Michelle Bachman comes in a distant 2nd place.

Readers of PolitiFact, the St. Petersburg Times' independent fact-checking website, also chose it as the year's most significant falsehood by an overwhelming margin. (Their second-place choice was Rep. Michele Bachmann's claim that Obama was going to spend $200 million a day on a trip to India, a falsity that still sprouts.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact.com

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Old 12-19-2010, 07:14 PM
 
Location: Houston area, for now
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Yea it's always reliable when one political group writes an article about the other side
I liked this statement
"President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to overhaul America's health insurance system". then further down saying " PolitiFact is not making a judgment on whether the health care law is good policy".
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Old 12-19-2010, 07:21 PM
 
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Yea it's always reliable when one political group writes an article about the other side
I liked this statement
"President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to overhaul America's health insurance system". then further down saying " PolitiFact is not making a judgment on whether the health care law is good policy".
Only in your wildest wingnut dreams is a newpaper of record part of the "other side"....The group is comprised of editors and journalists.

PolitiFact.com was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009 for "its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact.com
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Old 12-19-2010, 07:24 PM
 
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Sadly, most of American newspaper writers and editors wouldn't know a "government takeover" if a Sherman tank danced on their faces.

Same goes for "PolitiFact". LOL!!!!
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Old 12-19-2010, 07:27 PM
 
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It comes from the right wing propaganda machine of course and eagerly believed by their Fox viewing lemmings.

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/...r-health-care/

Right winger Michelle Bachman comes in a distant 2nd place.

Readers of PolitiFact, the St. Petersburg Times' independent fact-checking website, also chose it as the year's most significant falsehood by an overwhelming margin. (Their second-place choice was Rep. Michele Bachmann's claim that Obama was going to spend $200 million a day on a trip to India, a falsity that still sprouts.)
Poor Michelle (Joe McCarthy) Bachmann only second place???...she'd would've got first far above anyone if they judged on "number of lies".
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Old 12-19-2010, 08:00 PM
 
Location: it depends
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Default Wait a minute....

You mean I can choose how to pay for routine physicals and other preventive care?

You mean there will not be government panels charged with determining whether specific treatments should be used or not?

You mean I can determine whether I want a high deductible insurance plan, or a policy with a $1 million or $5 million life time benefit cap?

Oh, I guess not...because there has been a GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER. 60% of us understand that the practical effect of Health Care Reform IS a takeover, regardless of whether hobbled insurors, acting as functionaries of the government, play a role or not.
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Old 12-19-2010, 08:06 PM
 
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Only in your wildest wingnut dreams is a newpaper of record part of the "other side"....The group is comprised of editors and journalists.

PolitiFact.com was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009 for "its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters."

PolitiFact.com - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Whenever I hear of a site that claims to have cornered the truth market, I know there is more to the story.

Biased PolitiFact.com Covers for ACORN, Attacks Michele Bachmann | NewsBusters.org
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Old 12-19-2010, 08:08 PM
 
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Whenever I hear of a site that claims to have cornered the truth market, I know there is more to the story.

Biased PolitiFact.com Covers for ACORN, Attacks Michele Bachmann | NewsBusters.org
And that's why you go to the most far right wing blog for the answer!....LOL

Lame.
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Old 12-19-2010, 08:09 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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It comes from the right wing propaganda machine of course and eagerly believed by their Fox viewing lemmings.

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/...r-health-care/

Right winger Michelle Bachman comes in a distant 2nd place.

Readers of PolitiFact, the St. Petersburg Times' independent fact-checking website, also chose it as the year's most significant falsehood by an overwhelming margin. (Their second-place choice was Rep. Michele Bachmann's claim that Obama was going to spend $200 million a day on a trip to India, a falsity that still sprouts.)

PolitiFact.com - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Politifact is NOT independent. The SPT is one of the most leftist rags in the nation. Try again.
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Old 12-19-2010, 08:10 PM
 
Location: Hoboken
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And that's why you go to the most far right wing blog for the answer!....LOL

Lame.

Lol, so let me get this straight. Your source is impartial but others sources are biased? Mmmmm I see.........
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