Once again we find Glenn Kessler doing the honorable, bipartisan work of holding a White House responsible for what they say and do. And once again, the White House has been caught lying regarding a sequester scare tactic, this time with respect to a claim about the effect a measly 2% budget cut might have on vaccinations.
Yet, in raising the alarm about
the sequester, the administration has highlighted the decline in
vaccinations that it claims would result from sequestration. The White
House Web site displays an interactive map, which when you click on
Maryland, it declares: “2,050 fewer children will get vaccines for
diseases like measles and whopping cough.” It’s even worse for
Virginia: 3,530 children would supposedly be affected.
That bit of nonsense earned the White House two of those bad-boy Pinocchios.
While I'm thrilled some individual
journalists are doing what they're supposed to do -- hold the White
House accountable -- now that Obama has been caught in over at least a
half-dozen lies, when does the president's beclowning of his own
credibility become The Narrative in the full media?
That was a rhetorical question.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/03/08/WaPo-Another-False-Sequester-Claim
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