Obama's Lies Matter, Too The president pushes back against health care misinformation, then spr

09-10-2009 • Reason

It is telling that so many people who claim to be speaking on the side of Truth, Justice, and the American Way of Journalism have consistently focused their outrage-o-meters at individual townhall attendees, political broadcast entertainers, and the lesser lights of a lame (if resurgent-by-default) opposition party, while letting walk nearly fact-check-free the non-irrelevant occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. If calling out lies and misrepresentations about a significant policy proposal is such pressing journalistic business—and it should be!—you'd think the watchdogs might start with the guy doing the proposing. The lies last night began in Obama's opening paragraph

1 Comments in Response to Obama's Lies Matter, Too The president pushes back against health care misinformation, then spr

Comment by Lucky Red

Entered on: 9/11/2009 5:25:42 AM

Yes, Obama's lies matter. Too bad that George W. Bush's lies didn't matter though or they may have been 1.3 million innocent Iraqi women and children alive today. Oh, duh! What am I talking about? Y'all right-wing nuts only care about saving unborn American babies, the ones that are already in this world don't count. Sorry, sometimes I forget how that all works...

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