Who is fibbing on health care?
Confused about the health care debate?
Who is flat-out lying? Who is telling the truth?
I stumbled into a great site to help untangle the fibs from facts: PolitiFact.com.
This is created and reported by a team from the St. Petersburg Times. A fine newspaper, and PolitiFact.com is a wonderfully credible source.
One of the top features is devoted strictly to checking up on President Obama’s pronouncements and proclamations. This is digital journalism at its finest.
Here are some health care statements vetted by PoltiFact:
“All the really great programs in American history, Social Security, was done without Republicans. Medicare was done without Republican support until the last vote where they realized they had to get on board.” Howard Dean.
“President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision.” Rush Limbaugh.
True? False? Somewhere in between? You can access Polifacts by clicking here:
September 8th, 2009 in
General
by Rich
I am SO VERY GLAD that you brought http://www.PolitiFact.com to the attention of your readers. I would also highly encourage my fellow Lodians to visit http://www.FactCheck.org.
FactCheck.org is “a nonpartisan, nonprofit ‘consumer advocate’ for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. [They] monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. [Their] goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.”
Both PolitiFact.com and FactCheck.org are reliable and trusted sources of information. Any citizen who wants to learn more about the critical issues of our time would do well to visit these websites and subscribe to their email updates.