Well, why did it NOT surprise me to find that Bryan White’s most ardent admirer gave his predictable slobbering approval to Bryan’s review of PolitiFact’s supposed “horrible work”(its recent "Lie of the Year" on the so-called "government take over of healthcare" in the 2010 healthcare reform)--
AFTER HOURS: As usual, Bryan White at Sublime Bloviations does a superb job addressing even more problems with the Politifact piece.
Best line:
"If dissatisfaction with the health care plan was such a big factor in the November elections then perhaps PolitiFact could have found a "Lie of the Year" that Democrats would be able to run on the passage of health care reform and/or keep control of the House of Representatives."
Oh that self-congratulatory let’s-pat-ourselves-on-the-back-over-and-over smugness raises its ugly head again! So….can either Jeff or Bryan find such a lie? Got any examples? I mean, it should be easy….shouldn’t it? Bryan does something here he accuses PolitiFact of, claiming it’s “an inaccurate claim…which suggests evidence will follow” and then not having any such evidence except to quote a survey from Bloomberg where the margin of error is enough to take the legs out of it.
