{"id":5993,"date":"2011-12-20T19:35:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T03:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5993"},"modified":"2011-12-20T19:35:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T03:35:15","slug":"politifact-lie-of-the-year-confirmed-true-by-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5993","title":{"rendered":"Politifact Lie Of The Year Confirmed True By Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The widely respected and Pulitzer Prize winning Politifact has announced their annual selection for “Lie of the Year.”<\/em> Unfortunately, they have selected something that is demonstrably true: “Republicans voted to end Medicare.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

There has already been a tidal wave of criticism for this selection, which I will not regurgitate. If you’re interested in reading some of the takedowns, Media Matters has complied a few<\/a> and posted their own cogent remarks.<\/p>\n

“Paul Krugman<\/a> and Dan Kennedy<\/a> and Steve Benen<\/a> and Jonathan Cohn<\/a> and Jonathan Chait<\/a> and Matthew Yglesias<\/a> and David Weigel<\/a>, among countless others, have debunked Politifact’s ruling, which holds that as long as something called ‘Medicare’ has something to do with health care for the elderly, it’s a lie to say the program has ended, no matter how ‘dramatic’ the ‘change of course’ has been.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My contribution to this discussion will be to point out that Fox News reported on Politifact’s finding that the claim that Republicans voted to end Medicare was a lie, and at the same time published an article wherein Republicans advocated an end to Medicare:<\/p>\n

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That’s right. The Fox Nationalists, who ordinarily revile Politifact as just another liberal mainstream media outlet, now regale in this award. But they also publish an editorial<\/a> wherein the resident Fox News MD, Marc Siegel says this:<\/p>\n

“Not all practicing doctors will readily admit this, but we all look at Medicare (and all health insurance for that matter, public or private), the same way. Medicare is cumbersome, an unnecessary interface<\/strong> between us and our patients…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fact that Republicans have been trying to kill Medicare is irrefutable. And now the evidence is right on the web site of the GOP PR machine, Fox News. It takes some massive cajones to place these conflicting stories in such close proximity, but that’s what Fox was created for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The widely respected and Pulitzer Prize winning Politifact has announced their annual selection for “Lie of the Year.” Unfortunately, they have selected something that is demonstrably true: “Republicans voted to end Medicare.” There has already been a tidal wave of criticism for this selection, which I will not regurgitate. If you’re interested in reading some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,361],"tags":[527,33,908],"class_list":["post-5993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-healthcare","tag-fox-nation","tag-fox-news","tag-politifact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1yF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3430,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3430","url_meta":{"origin":5993,"position":0},"title":"PolitiFact Lie Of The Year: Government Takeover Of Health Care","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/17\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"PolitiFact, an independent fact-checking project from the St. Petersburg Times, has selected their \"Lie of the Year\" from the hundreds that are dispensed annually by politicians and pundits. 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