In an August 4 article by staff writers Perry Bacon Jr. and Michael D. Shear about the health care reform plans of several presidential candidates, The Washington Post noted that "Democrats, particularly Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and formersenator John Edwards (N.C.), are calling for higher taxes for people who make more than $250,000 a year" to pay for their health care plans.
The Post went on to discuss former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's (R) recently released health care proposal, saying that it would be "less costly and would cover fewer people,"than Obama's and Edwards' plans. However, the Post did not report -- and gave no indication it had attempted to determine -- how Giuliani plans to fund his proposal. Read more
Fox News Sunday is latest program to call Iraq invasion proponents "critics" of the war
During an August 5 interview on Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday with Brookings Institution scholars Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, authors of a July 30 New York Times op-ed that argued in favor of continuing the Bush administration's Iraq war escalation "at least into 2008," host Chris Wallace introduced O'Hanlon and Pollack as "two critics of the way the Bush administration has conducted the war."
But, as Media Matters for America has noted, both were influential proponents of the Iraq war before the invasion, and O'Hanlon wrote a column in support of President Bush's troop escalation, as Media Matters has also documented.
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