Its recent rulings on Medicare have demonstrated the point thrice over. PolitiFactsaid that Romney’s comment that Obama had “robbed” Medicare of $716 billion to pay for Obamacare was “mostly false.” Among its reasons: “The money was not robbed in any literal sense of the word.” So if Romney led anyone to believe that Obama had held Medicare at gunpoint and ordered it to hand over its wallet, they can now rest easy, because PolitiFact is on the case.On the Obama campaign's claim that the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan will cost senior citizens up to $6,400 a year:
Confronted with a real falsehood, however, PolitiFact gets soft. An Obama ad had claimed that Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan could raise costs for senior citizens by $6,400 — and PolitiFact rated it “mostly true,” and then backed down to “half true.” It is wholly false. Ryan’s most recent plan was designed so that seniors will never have to pay more for Medicare than they would under Obama’s budgets. PolitiFact claims that Obama is giving an accurate characterization of an older version of Ryan’s plan. It justifies Obama’s attack on this outdated plan because the Congressional Budget Office has not evaluated the new one. Yet no evaluation by the CBO is needed to reject Obama’s attack. Ryan’s plan guarantees that seniors would always have at least one insurance option that will cost them no more than Medicare does, and at least one option that will leave them ahead.
I have always wondered how PolitiFact could pull the rug out from under the public so easily. Poll after poll shows the disdain and distrust the public has towards the media -- especially against network news broadcasts -- but why is it that when a story is published with the word PolitiFact in the title does that story and all of the "facts" contained therein become a legitimate source of news?
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