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“Death panels” is PoliFact’s 2009 “Lie of the Year.”
Archive for the ‘Lying in politics’ Category
December 21st, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, US healthcare reform
Posted: Monday, December 21st, 2009 at
10:20 am
2 Comments »
November 15th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
The author of the end-of-life counseling provision in the health care bill reflects on the Great Blood Libel of 2009.
Posted: Sunday, November 15th, 2009 at
11:32 pm
9 Comments »
November 10th, 2009
by Andrew Sabl
A conspiracy theory, a conjecture, call it what you will–but isn’t it possible that Lieberman’s price for his health-care vote is more troops for Afghanistan?
Posted: Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at
5:57 pm
11 Comments »
November 8th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
In which a stupid lie is traced back to its source.
Posted: Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at
7:10 pm
17 Comments »
October 23rd, 2009
by Jonathan Zasloff
Is Obama selling out his strongest supporters on the public option ort-out to curry favor with the insurers and Pharma?
Posted: Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at
3:02 pm
7 Comments »
October 18th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Crime Control, Lying in politics
Rick Perry, defending himself for having sent an innocent man to his death, assures us that what he did was right, because someone who actually did what the executed man was falsely accused of doing would be “a monster.”
Posted: Sunday, October 18th, 2009 at
9:06 am
9 Comments »
October 13th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, US healthcare reform
The firm admits that it only looked at cost-increasing aspects of the bill.
Posted: Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at
10:00 pm
4 Comments »
October 7th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, Uncategorized
The “czars” don’t wield independent authority.
Posted: Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 at
8:41 am
1 Comment »
September 16th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, Watching Conservatives
I wish some critic of “czardom” would pick a single official and specify what inappropriate powers have been designated to that official. And I wish the national political press corps had either the brains or the nerve to ask obvious questions rather than just doing stenography for charlatans.
Posted: Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 at
4:17 pm
6 Comments »
August 27th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Health Care, Lying in politics
The RNC uncovers a plot to deny Republicans health care.
Posted: Thursday, August 27th, 2009 at
12:37 pm
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