AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY/YOUTUBE
Enter
by The Hill’s Julian Pecquet, reporting that by the Department of
Health and Human Services’ own
estimates, many plans were going
to lose their “grandfathered” status between 2010 and 2013.
But what’s the solution here?
Wait three months to fact-check a
political ad, for the sake of consistency? The Examiner notes that
fact-checkers went to work on
the “if you like your plan” claim
“after people were getting cancellation letters.” That’s a clue as to
LOOKING FORWARD
IN ANGST
HUFFINGTON
03.02.14
What’s the solution
here? Wait three months to
fact-check a political ad, for
the sake of consistency?”
how this fact-checking industry
is going to work — a precipitating
event is going to drive their activity. In the case of the president’s
claims, it was cancellation letters,
which laid bare the reality behind
the White House’s glib spin job.
In the case of Boonstra’s claims, it
was when she showed up in an attack ad. And I’m afraid to say, the
First Amendment doesn’t protect
Julia
Boonstra,
the cancer
patient
featured in
the AFP ad.