Sunday, January 8, 2012

'The Bloodying of PolitiFact' -- and the facts

Trudy Lieberman, in a piece entitled, "The Bloodying of PolitiFact" on the Columbia Journalism Review website, looks at the controversy over PolitiFact's decision to make Democrats claims that Paul Ryan's plan would end Medicare as the "lie of the year."

Let's cut to the chase. Lieberman writes:

The fact is Republicans by supporting Ryan’s voucher plan did essentially vote to end Medicare.
You can read the analysis here.

She also has a bad word for "snarky little blog posts" on the subject, so we'll leave it at that.

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