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Salon fact checking (Original Post) dorkzilla Oct 2012 OP
Good find! burrowowl Oct 2012 #1
The first four are fun, the rest are, too...!! MADem Oct 2012 #2
I especially love "the same fucking bill"! dorkzilla Oct 2012 #5
+1 nt MADem Oct 2012 #6
Not "fact checkers", "MITTBUSTERS!!!!" sirbarksalot Oct 2012 #3
Ha! Welcome to DU, Sirbarksalot. myrna minx Oct 2012 #8
Anyone know any LIV data on fact checkin? Regards uponit7771 Oct 2012 #4
The Robot. CrispyQ Oct 2012 #7
Poor Lurch... dorkzilla Oct 2012 #9

MADem

(135,425 posts)
2. The first four are fun, the rest are, too...!!
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 12:22 AM
Oct 2012
10:45 — Big Bird is tiny: Mitt Romney says he’d help bring down the deficit by cutting PBS and “Big Bird.” PBS receives about $445 million from the federal government, which represents about .01 percent of the federal budget.

10:20 — Romney left his heart in Zurich: Romney tells Obama, “The place you put your money is a pretty good indication of where your heart is.” The obvious rejoinder, ready-made for a DNC attack, is that Romney’s heart must be in the Cayman Island, Bermuda or Switzerland, where Romney has put his money.

10:10 — “The same fucking bill”: Romney says his healthcare plan in Massachusetts is very different from Obamacare. The guy who designed both the plans calls them “the same fucking bill.”

10:00 — Romney sees death panels: Romney comes dangerously close to invoking death panels, saying Obamacare has “a board that will tell people what kind of treatment they’re going to get.” He’s referring to IPAB, a board of doctors, hospital officials and government officials who try to find best practices to reduce the cost of Medicare (and only Medicare — no one else’s healthcare — which is already a government plan). IPAB does not decide on individual cases, is subject to congressional oversight and is legally prohibited from rationing care. In August, Paul Ryan told Florida seniors Obamacare has a “rationing board.”

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
9. Poor Lurch...
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 01:15 PM
Oct 2012

I loved Lurch too. Then again, my first crush was Brains from the Thunderbirds. Yes, you read that right...I had a crush on a marionette.

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