TNR-Bush tells a another Bald-Faced Lie with the help of the Press

[LiviaOlivia]

Noam Scheiber's Daily Journal of Politics
http://tnr.com/etc.mhtml
09-14-2004


THE PRESIDENT TELLS A BALD-FACED LIE: For those who missed it, the president claimed yesterday that John Kerry has "a complicated blueprint to have our government take over the decision making in health care," which is--oh, what's the phrase I'm looking for?--a BALD-FACED LIE. Granted, Mike Allen points out that Kerry's plan "consists largely of tax credits, as does Bush's," in his piece on the matter. Allen also includes a quote from Sarah Bianchi, Kerry's policy director, emphasizing that Kerry's plan "is purely designed to strengthen employer-based health care." But, since Bush's claim is actually a BALD-FACED LIE, not a simple one-side-says-this, the-other-side-says-that difference of opinion, why not report what actually happened yesterday, which is that the president told a BALD-FACED LIE?

(I don't mean to single Allen out. He's certainly not the only White House correspondent who reported the Bush's comments this way. The New York Times' David Sanger filed a far more relativistic account. And my hunch is that Allen's instinct is to report the story in a more straight-forward way, but that he'd never get it past his editors.)

posted 11:57 a.m.
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Mike Allen's WP article at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18142-2004Sep13.html

David Sanger's NYT article
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/14/politics/campaign/14bush.html


on edit: cap Lie

[markus]

1. The answer according to Sen. Bulworth

Tried watching Bulworth on the Comedy Channel the other night. There was more bleep tone than dialogue, and I got so annoyed I switched off.

But in the scene at his fundraiser, in which he takes off after the insurance industry, he makes an excellent (and valid, ie., true) point:

The government does for three cents on the dollar what the insurance companies do putting 25 cent of every dollars in their pockets.

Hell, and as for bureaucrats, have you ever tried disputing a disallowed charge with a Big Blue lately? I just have, and I think I need to write up a LTTE about it and this Bushshit.

[seabeyond]

2. they did this with hillary

same ole same ole