Quote Originally Posted by avatar1999 View Post
I just love how people jump on the wagon and criticize a certain news agency of having it in for the administration, and say they lie about this and that, but...hmm...I don't recall anyone showing and PROOF that what they're saying isn't true.
See the first point in my first post. Want more?

He tripled the debt: hmm, to date he added less than $1T to the scheduled debt from the 2009 budget signed in 2008 by President Bush... that actually includes 6 months of funding for Afghanistan and Iraq that were not included in said budget. For comparison, prior to President Bush the debt was scheduled to hit $6.5T in January this year.

He has already spent more than all the previous presidents combined: when that statement was made by Fox News, the government was still running on Bush FY 2009 budget. How can somebody that hasn't yet have a budget to his name have outspent all previous presidents combined? Also, how come the debt has increased by less than 10% if he has spent more than all previous presidents (total budget, not just debt)?

Death panels in "obamacare": there was once a dodgy amendment introduced by a Republican, it was voted off by a Democrat. As the text stood at the time of the "scandal" about it, the text was the same text that was in "bushcare" (2004 medicare law).

Illegals getting covered in "obamacare": "bushcare" introduced a $250K per annum per hospital provision to cover emergency healthcare access to illegals. Joe "you lie" Wilson voted for it, under the existing Republican plan your tax dollars are paying for the healthcare of illegal immigrants.

One could spend less than 5 minutes checking for every outlandish statement by Fox and find it false, a gross exaggeration or only marginally true by being taken out of context. One could start by using thomas, opencongress or the many other places where the debated texts are displayed. One can see the complete history of the bill, who introduced which amendment and who voted for it... that is often enlightening.