Is the Washington Post Too Pinocchio Happy When It Comes to Ads Criticizing Republicans Over Medicare?

Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post's fact checker, dished out the maximum four pinocchios in reference to ads by Democratic pacs criticizing Arkansas Representative Tom Cotton over his support of the Republican Medicare plan. This is not the first time such ads have drawn four pinocchios from Kessler or comparable criticism from PolitiFact and FactCheck.Org, the other major media political fact checking sites. 


The essence of the criticism is that the ad cites complaints against an earli...

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Published on June 30, 2013 19:30
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