Factcheck.org has presented all of us political junkies with an early Christmas present: The biggest whoppers of 2011 as told by politicos of all stripes.
Each lie is dissected in succinct detail, and on a bipartisan basis. In addition, Factcheck stuffs our stocking with “assorted absurdities.”
The summary says that, despite what you may have heard in 2011:
- The new health care law won’t cost many jobs (and they’ll be poorly paying jobs at that).
- Republicans aren’t proposing to “end” Medicare (and Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has signed onto a modified version of the GOP plan).
- Most of the “millionaires” who would pay higher tax rates under a Democratic proposal aren’t job-creating small business owners.
- President Obama’s mother didn’t really fight to get health insurance coverage as she was dying.
“And there was plenty more spin and deception in 2011. Obama claimed he pays a lower tax rate than a teacher. Michele Bachmann endorsed a claim that HPV vaccine causes mental retardation. Joe Biden claimed rapes quadrupled in Flint, Mich., after police layoffs. And that’s just some of the nonsense we debunked,” writes Factcheck’s Brooks Jackson.
You can read through the entire list here.
