On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> This raises the one huge issue I've had with Politifact for a long time > (and I generally like them a lot). They have a very irritating tendency to > miss the forest for the trees. > > The one that drove me up the wall earlier this year involved Medicare. > Don't have the link at my disposal, but the short version is that a Democrat > said the Republicans were trying to kill Medicare. Politifact ruled it > false. But the distinction was that the Republican position was to change > Medicare to a system that had no relationship to the current one save the > name. Because the name wasn't changing, Politifact ruled they weren't > killing it. > Coming up on Fox News Sunday - Fox News viewers aren't the most misinformed. Daily Show viewers are. Chris Wallace was on Don Imus this morning to talk about that interview, and it seems like he wasn't really paying attention to Stewart because he still argues that Stewart is in denial about his ideological biases, even though he admitted to them being part of his comedy. Video from Fox Business... http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/imus/index.html#/v/1015977701001/wallace-on-interview-with-jon-stewart/?playlist_id=87057 -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
