An interesting Volte-face from this person noticed by Don Surber:
PolitiFact, if you like your Pulitzer, you can keep it. Period.
Research led me far afield and I uncovered this gem from PolitiFact in its Pulitzer Prize-winning year of 2008. It rated as TRUE Obama's statement at the October 7, 2008, "If you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it."
Five years later, only after Obama was safely elected and re-elected did PolitiFact name that claim the Lie of the Year of 2013 -- even though it dated back to 2008.
It is time for PolitiFact to do the honorable thing and return the Pulitzer it won for its coverage of the 208 presidential campaign. The lie the fact-checkers called true was to crucial to the 2008 presidential campaign to be glossed over. PolitiFact blew it.
The wonderful thing about the internet is that nothing goes away. If a website chooses to deep-six some inconvenient posting, there are archive sites, people take screen shots, etc etc etc...
Read Don's post for Angie's posts from 2008 (if you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it) and from 2013 (PolitiFact has named "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," the Lie of the Year for 2013). Don's sugestion is this:
Of more importance, had PolitiFact told the truth about Obama's lie in 2008, it may have been worthy of its Pulitzer.
It is not. It failed to call Obama out on the most important piece of legislation in his two terms as president.
The newspaper should return the prize -- along with an apology.
Will they?
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. . . crickets . . .
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