Facts Bust Media Narrative That Obama Favored Health Care Over Economy Media conservatives are pushing the narrative that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney‘s attacks against President Obama over the economy will be effective because Obama favored health care reform rather than focusing on “fixing the economy.” However, this narrative falters when confronted with the facts, including that Obama pushed through the first of many economic initiatives a month after he was elected — more than a year before health care reform became law. Read More
Fast And Fallacious: Pavlich’s Book On ATF Operation Filled With Falsehoods In her new book, Fast and Furious: Barack Obama‘s Bloodiest Scandal and its Shameless Cover-up, Townhall news editor Katie Pavlich offers up a number of false and misleading claims about the ATF’s fatally flawed Operation Fast and Furious. In doing so Pavlich baselessly suggests that high-ranking Justice Department officials were aware of that operation’s use of the tactic of gunwalking, in which agents knowingly allowed guns to be trafficked across the border to Mexico in order to identify other members of a trafficking network. Read More
