What ‘Fact Checkers’ Call Lies, I Call Politics: Ramesh Ponnuru
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Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Last year, PolitiFact, a widelycited “fact-checking” project of the Tampa Bay Times, awardedits “Lie of the Year” to Republicans who said that the health-care law President Barack Obama had signed amounted to a“government takeover” of the field.
This year, the uncoveted prize has gone to Democrats whosaid that Republicans had voted to “end Medicare” by voting forRepresentative Paul Ryan’s budget.