{"id":11230,"date":"2014-01-09T13:50:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11230"},"modified":"2014-01-09T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T21:51:17","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-the-case-of-the-uncooked-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11230","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Case Of ObamaCare’s Uncooked Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

The burden of coming up with ever newer and more hair-raising scandals against the Obama administration must be wearing heavily on the Fox News flunkies assigned to that task. What else could explain the article posted to Fox Nation that alleged that Mark Udall, the Democratic senator from Colorado, had “Asked State to Cook Books on ObamaCare Numbers.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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For more documented examples of Fox Nation’s dishonesty,
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The article alleged that “Udall’s office pressured the Colorado Division of Insurance to downplay the number of insurance cancellations caused by the rollout of ObamaCare.”<\/em> However, the evidence of that claim was not provided. The Fox Nationalists linked their article to a column on the uber-rightist Breitbart News, where a concerted effort was made to spin the story in the most negative manner possible. At issue were the number of Colorado residents who had policies canceled by their insurance companies, and were not given an opportunity to renew them or switch to a similar policy.<\/p>\n

Only by following a trail back several more steps to the original source<\/a> in the Denver Post was the truth revealed.<\/p>\n

“Many of the cancellation notices, however, also contain language allowing customers to renew their existing policies.<\/p>\n

“One consumer advocacy group said that while the impact on the small number facing an absolute cancellation is real, ‘there’s been a lot of hype and not a lot of drilling down into the facts.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, in fact, many of the alleged cancellations were not really cancellations at all because the customer was permitted to renew the policy. Sen. Udall simply wanted the number of cancellations reported to reflect that fact. But in pursuit of another phony controversy, the Fox Nationalists, in conjunction with the BreitBrats, manufactured a marauding senator putting pressure on a beleaguered bureaucrat.<\/p>\n

As usual, there was no controversy, there were no cooked books, and the only departure from the truth was by the fabulists at Fox News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The burden of coming up with ever newer and more hair-raising scandals against the Obama administration must be wearing heavily on the Fox News flunkies assigned to that task. What else could explain the article posted to Fox Nation that alleged that Mark Udall, the Democratic senator from Colorado, had “Asked State to Cook Books […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Case Of The Uncooked Books","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[982,527,1066],"class_list":["post-11230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-breitbart","tag-fox-nation","tag-obamacare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2V8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10766,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10766","url_meta":{"origin":11230,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Hundreds Of Thousands Get Better, Cheaper Insurance","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/22\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In keeping with their knee-jerk opposition to everything President Obama does, The liars at Fox Nation posted an item sourced to NBC News with a foreboding headline declaring that \"Hundreds of Thousands Lose Their Health Insurance.\" For more juicy examples of Fox Nation's lies read Fox Nation vs. Reality. 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