{"id":10617,"date":"2013-09-26T10:07:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10617"},"modified":"2013-09-26T10:10:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T17:10:34","slug":"12-pants-on-fire-myths-about-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10617","title":{"rendered":"12 “Pants On Fire” Myths About ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the Tea Party Texan, Ted Cruz, wrapped up a 21 hour talk-athon during which he couldn’t articulate a single fact that might convince an open-minded person that ObamaCare is the nightmare that he alleges. Rather, he rambled aimlessly through Dr. Seuss recitations, White Castle burger recollections, and Nazi references.<\/p>\n

The truth about the Affordable Care Act is something that Republicans are deathly afraid of – that it will be effective and popular – which is why they lie about it so often and so flagrantly.<\/p>\n

What Cruz could not do in 21 hours, PolitiFact has summed up nicely in a few paragraphs. They posted an article that contains sixteen “myths”<\/a> that have been promulgated by right-wing disinformers, complete with links to detailed explanations that expose the brazen dishonesty of the health care law’s opponents. Included are familiar lies like “the health care law rations care, like systems in Canada and Great Britain,”<\/em> and that “Congress is exempt from Obamacare.”<\/em> But it is notable that of the sixteen lies listed, twelve of them earned the worst award that PolitiFact gives, the “Pants On Fire”<\/em> designation.<\/p>\n

As a public service, I have created a handy infographic with the 12 worst lies about ObamaCare as documented by PolitiFact. Please share this with your Tea Party infected friends and family.<\/p>\n

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And please be Sure To \u201cLIKE\u201d News Corpse On Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the Tea Party Texan, Ted Cruz, wrapped up a 21 hour talk-athon during which he couldn’t articulate a single fact that might convince an open-minded person that ObamaCare is the nightmare that he alleges. Rather, he rambled aimlessly through Dr. Seuss recitations, White Castle burger recollections, and Nazi references. The truth about the Affordable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"12 \"Pants On Fire\" Myths About ObamaCare","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3,361],"tags":[961,1066,908],"class_list":["post-10617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-graphix","category-healthcare","tag-infographic","tag-obamacare","tag-politifact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2Lf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11069,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11069","url_meta":{"origin":10617,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Hypes PolitiFact’s Lie Of The Year, One Week After Saying Never Trust PolitiFact","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/13\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time once again for the unveiling of the \"Lie of the Year\" by the fact-checkers at PolitiFact. 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