Is PolitiFact's 'Lie of the Year' a lie itself? - The Week
...PolitiFact should get its facts straight: It's "really awful" that with all the actual lies out there, PolitiFact is targeting "a statement that happens to be true," says Paul Krugman at The New York Times. Republicans voted for a plan that replaces the guaranteed benefits of Medicare with a system of increasingly worthless vouchers to buy private insurance. Sure, "the new scheme would still be called 'Medicare,'" but it would look nothing like Medicare as we know it. So "how is this not an end to Medicare?" Apparently, PolitiFact is so "terrified of being considered partisan" that they've chosen to become "useless and irrelevant" instead.
"PolitiFact, R.I.P..."
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