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Showing posts with label Corporate News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corporate News. Show all posts

11/9/13

Chuck Todd Equates Opposition to Privatizing Social Security to GOP Obstruction of 'Obamacare'

Chuck Todd Equates Opposition to Privatizing Social Security to GOP Obstruction of 'Obamacare'
"There are so many things wrong with this very short clip from this Friday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, it's hard to know where to begin, but let's start with the fact that there is no equivalence whatsoever between George W. Bush wanting to privatize Social Security and the Democrats who were against that policy, and the type of obstruction we've seen from Republicans against the Affordable Care Act."

9/18/13

Chuck Todd: Not His Job to Point Out Lies About Obamacare

Chuck Todd: Not His Job to Point Out Lies About Obamacare
"From this Wednesday's Morning Joe, Chuck Todd finally said out loud what most of have known for a long time now. He doesn't think it's his job to make sure his audience knows when Republicans are lying to them."

8/11/13

PERRspectives: Fox News Poll Shows Success of GOP's Obamacare Lies

PERRspectives: Fox News Poll Shows Success of GOP's Obamacare Lies
"Given the history of the Republicans' killer lies on health care, it's no surprise that Americans are confused about what Obamacare does, what it mean for them and the national budget. But like Politifact's 2009 Lie of the Year ("death panels") and 2010 Lie of the Year ("government takeover of healthcare"), Republican repetition of the claim that the Affordable Care Act will generate red ink doesn't make it any truer. But like the 2010 fraud that President Obama raised taxes or the sham that stimulus "made the economy worse" or any of the other myriad GOP claims which were "not intended to be a factual statement," millions of Americans deceived by Republican lies sadly it."

7/18/13

Most Media Coverage Ignores Premium Drop, Focuses On GOP Effort To Undermine Obamacare

Most Media Coverage Ignores Premium Drop, Focuses On GOP Effort To Undermine Obamacare: Early on Wednesday, as House Republicans prepared to vote for a delay of the Affordable Care Act’s employer and individual mandates, New York state officials announced that health care premiums in the new exchange will plummet by at least 50 percent as a result of the law. For reform advocates, the story represented a reprieve [...]/p

7/10/13

David Gregory Falsely Claims All American Workers Will See Medicare Tax Increase

David Gregory Falsely Claims All American Workers Will See Medicare Tax Increase
"As we've already discussed around here, David Gregory was never too fond of the idea of some fact checking being done so that viewers would know how many whoppers he was allowing his guests to get away with. On this Sunday's Meet the Press, forget the guests -- it was Gregory himself who needed the fact checker."

7/5/13

REPORT: Broadcast And Cable News' One-Sided Social Security Debate

www.mediamatters.org/research/2013/07/05/report-broadcast-and-cable-news-one-sided-socia/194732
"Throughout the first half of 2013, broadcast and cable nightly news overwhelmingly discussed Social Security in an unbalanced and negative light by repeatedly insisting that the program is insolvent, must be cut, or poses a risk to long-term fiscal security."