Washington Post: We Tried To Bury That Story About ObamaCare Blowing Up The Deficit

Investor's Business Daily ^ | April 16, 2012 | Sean Higgins

[george76]

Washington Post columnist Patrick Pexton made a rather startling admission in the paper’s Sunday edition: The Post never meant for their recent story about how President Obama’s health care law expands the budget deficit to become a viral Internet sensation. In fact, they deliberately tried to bury the story.

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The story in question was titled “Health care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds.” It pointed out that the administration had double-counted Medicare savings in the law and once you adjusted for that it added to the deficit rather than reducing it, as the White House has claimed. This is pretty significant news and was soon repeated and reposted throughout the web.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Is it the media’s job to bury newsworthy stories? This is a strange world.......

[EDINVA]

Will this be a surprise to anyone at FR? Just nice from time to time to see confirmation, much less from the WaPo itself.

[ClearCase_guy]

The paper of Woodward and Bernstein is now officially the paper of Obama’s Plumbers.

[seowulf]

Is it the media’s job to bury newsworthy stories? This is a strange world.......

Well, it was in the old Soviet Union...and here, apparently.

[GeronL]

does this mean we can call them biased now??

:p

[munin]

The paper of Woodward and Bernstein is now officially the paper of Obama’s Plumbers.

Just a reminder, the WH occupant at the time of Watergate was of a differant party, so perhaps not much has changed after all

[Moonman62]

The story in question was titled “Health care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds.” It pointed out that the administration had double-counted Medicare savings in the law and once you adjusted for that it added to the deficit rather than reducing it, as the White House has claimed. This is pretty significant news and was soon repeated and reposted throughout the web.

Haven't people in the private sector gone to jail for such accounting tricks?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks george76.

[Uncle Miltie]

I believe this fact was widely reported in the Non-Lame-Stream-Media before 0bummerRomneyCare became law.

It’s just that The Washington ComPost finally was admitting the fact of double counting savings some years later.

Q: Has the ComPost ever reported that there were 10 years of taxes and 6 or 7 years of costs in 0bamaRomneyCare? I doubt they’ve ever gotten around to reporting that....

[Karliner]

Need to send this to a radical libbie who worships at Soetero’s feet.

[SierraWasp]

"radical libbie"

You can convince a man against his will, but he's of the same opinion, still!!!

At least that's what my dearly departed mama told me.

She said you have to lead them to question everything just like every smart person does.

[Lancey Howard]

Is it the media’s job to bury newsworthy stories? This is a strange world.......

No. Only stories that hurt their scumbag democrats. Anyway, for honest news reporting I look to the Daily Mail and the rest of the British press. The American press is mostly dishonest and useless.

[lowbridge]

Bump

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Washington Post: We Tried To Bury That Story About ObamaCare Blowing Up The Deficit

The title might be misleading. I am still searching for any admission whatsoever of wrongdoing in the article in question.

[NTHockey]

What is that thing called Freedom of the press? Isn’t it my right to have a free press, uncontrolled by the government? Can the alphabet networks and newspapers be sued for denying us a free press?

[kearnyirish2]

Matt Drudge’s niche was reporting news that the media was aware of but decided shouldn’t be shared with the American public. First & foremost on that list: the blue dress stained by BJ Clinton’s semen.

[mo]

The Compost is as much of the USA’s problem as anything else in DC today....

[stylin19a]

It pointed out that the administration had double-counted Medicare savings in the law

trouble with this, is,....Paul Ryan pointed it out from the get go.