Posted on 10/15/2014 2:52:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
Early this morning, Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post's designated fact-checker gave the left's claims that Republicans alone were responsible for alleged "cuts" to Ebola research four Pinocchios (i.e., a "whopper").
That's nice, but it hardly undoes the damage news outlets like the Associated Press have inflicted on the truth in the apparent name of ginning up resentment among low-information voters. I'll get to that, but first, here are the key passages from Kessler's critique, which essentially gets down to who's responsible for sequestration (the correct answer is that it was President Obama and the White House; bolds are mine throughout this post):
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
I wonder how much money is wasted at the CDC over useless crap like the mating habits of chimps or community awareness of obesity....
Every useless program the CDC enguages in decreases it’s credibility toward their dealing with the stuff they are SUPPOSED to be around for in the first place....
“The rest of the title is: AP’s Disinformation to Ribbon”
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Well you cannot unring a bell, and you can unscrew a light bulb but you cannot unscrew a telephone operator and so on and so forth.
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