Politifact Has Decided That A Totally True Thing Is The "Lie Of The Year," For Some Reason

So, you know, go form an organization called WordTweaker and commit yourself to advocating for the most civil sounding adjectives, if that's what you want to do! But let's recall, Politifact, that your lie of the year is "Republicans voted to end Medicare." And end it, they did vote to do! Now, if the Democrats had said, "Republicans take Medicare out behind the Cannon Office Building and horsewhip it," that's a different story. But you've decided -- ... Full Story »

Posted by Dwight Rousu - via Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post (Health Care)
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Dec 20, 2011 - 3:17 PM PST
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Dec 20, 2011 - 11:00 PM PST

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Randy Morrow
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by Randy Morrow - Dec. 23, 2011

Oh, you say that the program has “dramatically changed” for people who are not currently 55 or older, in that “the program” would no longer be ... More »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 20, 2011

My advice to Politifact is to take a deep breath, start over, and try to actually learn some basic things — like, what the words “end” and ... More »

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