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GOP Legislator and Detroit News take a trip to the Memory Hole

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Silly GOPcritter.  Don't you know the Internet plugged up the memory hole ages ago?

Below the cut (where I've posted some screen grabs) are two versions of an anti-Obamacare rant by one of our state "legislators" here in Michigan that was published as an op-ed in the Detroit News.  You expect a GOP op-ed to be full of errors and fabrications, of course, but this one started off with a bang, confusing the $1.35 trillion 10-year figure (that's the one that doesn't make any net accounting, which lowers the bottom-line figure substantially) with an annual cost, resulting in an order-of-magnitude error in policy costs.  There are plenty of other errors -- it's a veritable Gish Gallop in that second paragraph -- but that one was so big it could even get through to a Republican.

Thus, the News either made or let Sen. Colbeck make a major overhaul of the article; after the order of magnitude drop made the Obamacare costs look better compared to the kind of plan a healthy young private citizen could get, he also lost 5 million enrollees to make the denominator smaller, and changed his comparison to a cheap catastrophic plan.  After doing all this, they scrubbed the comments page and failed to note any corrections or edits to the article.

You'd think at some point in this process the necessity of doing all this would make some idealistic young staffer reconsider their choice of team.  Plain sad all around.


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