Media should fact-check Obama, not Obamacare victims

[Marcus Aurelius]

http://washingtonexaminer.com/exami...k-obama-not-obamacare-victims/article/2544540

Obama's promises were false from the start — the millions of health insurance policies that have been canceled to date were terminated under Obamacare provisions that are features of the law, not unintended bugs. The policies were deemed not good enough for people to keep by the government experts who presume to know what Americans need better than they do.

Some of the same news organizations that couldn't wait to fact-check Boonstra's claims in the AFP ad took years to tell Americans that Obama had lied to them about one of the most basic aspects of his signature law. So where were all the fact-checkers? Asleep at the switch until it was far too late.

The Washington Post's "Fact Checker" blog, for example, didn't award four Pinocchios to Obama's claim until Oct. 30 -- more than three years after the law was signed, and only after people were getting cancellation letters. By contrast, the Fact Checker gave AFP two Pinocchios for the Boonstra ad within a few days of its appearance. Similarly, PolitiFact rated Obama's claim as "true" in 2008, then "half true" for several more years until branding it at the end of 2013 as the "Lie of the Year."

Their first priority should be fact-checking politicians, not private citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.