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Archive for the ‘Lying in politics’ Category
March 31st, 2010
by Kelly Kleiman
Category: Barack Obama, Conservatism, Germany, Handbasket, world going to hell in, Health Care, History, Lying in politics, Moral philosophy, Palin, US healthcare reform, Watching Conservatives
There was a joke that used to go around about a golf game involving entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. Another player asked his handicap, and Davis replied “I’m a Jewish black man with one eye; how much more handicap do I need?” This came to mind when I read the New York Times story about President [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 at
9:49 am
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Boehner, Cantor, Health Care, Judaism, Kristallnacht, Obama, seder, Tea Party, vandalism
28 Comments »
January 22nd, 2010
by Andrew Sabl
Category: 2010 Democratic Agenda, Democrats in Congress, Lying in politics, Politics and Leadership, US healthcare reform
Even Andrew Sullivan thinks we should pass the damn bill-and that’s just the beginning. Can those who were Democratic partisans all along do any less?
Posted: Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at
12:33 pm
2 Comments »
January 8th, 2010
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
The flacks for the American Petroleum Institute are so full of it their eyes are brown.
Posted: Friday, January 8th, 2010 at
9:22 pm
5 Comments »
December 21st, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, US healthcare reform
“Death panels” is PoliFact’s 2009 “Lie of the Year.”
Posted: Monday, December 21st, 2009 at
10:20 am
2 Comments »
November 15th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
The author of the end-of-life counseling provision in the health care bill reflects on the Great Blood Libel of 2009.
Posted: Sunday, November 15th, 2009 at
11:32 pm
9 Comments »
November 10th, 2009
by Andrew Sabl
A conspiracy theory, a conjecture, call it what you will-but isn’t it possible that Lieberman’s price for his health-care vote is more troops for Afghanistan?
Posted: Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at
5:57 pm
11 Comments »
November 8th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
In which a stupid lie is traced back to its source.
Posted: Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at
7:10 pm
17 Comments »
October 23rd, 2009
by Jonathan Zasloff
Is Obama selling out his strongest supporters on the public option ort-out to curry favor with the insurers and Pharma?
Posted: Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at
3:02 pm
7 Comments »
October 18th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Crime Control, Lying in politics
Rick Perry, defending himself for having sent an innocent man to his death, assures us that what he did was right, because someone who actually did what the executed man was falsely accused of doing would be “a monster.”
Posted: Sunday, October 18th, 2009 at
9:06 am
9 Comments »
