Posted on 04/16/2012 8:55:45 PM PDT by 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.
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Exactly right. I remember reading several articles at the time Obamacare was being debated to the effect that this Medicare money was being double counted.
Does anyone really read that bird-cage-liner rag? Hopefully, they will continue their financial slide into nonpublishing oblivion.
Not so strange — Pravda did it frequently for the USSR regime.
“Does anyone really read that bird-cage-liner rag?”
Regrettably, everybody who’s anybody in government reads and lives by the WaPo. They quote it as Gospel. Opposing views are blasphemy to be mocked.
“Does anyone really read that bird-cage-liner rag?”
Regrettably, everybody who’s anybody in government reads and lives by the WaPo. They quote it as Gospel. Opposing views are blasphemy to be mocked.
“Does anyone really read that bird-cage-liner rag?”
Regrettably, everybody who’s anybody in government reads and lives by the WaPo. They quote it as Gospel. Opposing views are blasphemy to be mocked.
Sorry...I should have qualified my question: Does any clear-thinking human being...
Now you’re talkin’
People that read WaPo voted for Obama anyway. The real evil is the TV networks.
Sebelius admitted it under oath in front of congress. They asked her if it was the same half billion and she said, "yes".
Reading WaPo is like looking for treasure in the dump. Once in a while one could find a good article. This one, for me, was not what was advertised in the title.
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