Truth-squading the summit
By: Marin Cogan and James Hohmann
Politico.com
February 26, 2010
Obama exaggerated. Boehner lied. Reid was incorrect. Ryan is wrong.
An army of partisan fact checkers bombarded the media through seven hours of the health care summit with such deep thoughts — replete with cherry-picked data — confirming the adage that there’s lies, damn lies and statistics.
Some of the jabs were dead on, but some were merely meant to back up partisan talking points. Still, there were plenty of factually challenged statements.
With a nod to Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s statement that the Congressional Budget Office is “God” in his book — the media deify CBO figures as well — here is POLITICO’s selection of the top whoppers from Thursday’s summit.
Reid wrong on reconciliation
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Republicans at the health care summit that “no one has talked about reconciliation.”
Actually, everybody’s been talking about reconciliation.
(Continued here.)
Politico.com
February 26, 2010
Obama exaggerated. Boehner lied. Reid was incorrect. Ryan is wrong.
An army of partisan fact checkers bombarded the media through seven hours of the health care summit with such deep thoughts — replete with cherry-picked data — confirming the adage that there’s lies, damn lies and statistics.
Some of the jabs were dead on, but some were merely meant to back up partisan talking points. Still, there were plenty of factually challenged statements.
With a nod to Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s statement that the Congressional Budget Office is “God” in his book — the media deify CBO figures as well — here is POLITICO’s selection of the top whoppers from Thursday’s summit.
Reid wrong on reconciliation
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Republicans at the health care summit that “no one has talked about reconciliation.”
Actually, everybody’s been talking about reconciliation.
(Continued here.)
Powered by Blogger
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home