re: #135 Killgore Trout

That depends on how partisan you are. I think they were technically correct last year. In fact, it was sort of a wakeup for me. I had repeated the same technically dishonest claim myself. I’m not sure if it really qualified as the biggest lie of the year but they are correct that it’s not really true.

Perhaps from a super-semantic viewpoint, it was technically correct in that the plan wouldn’t have stopped there from being a program called Medicare. And yes, it wasn’t going to touch current beneficiaries. But for everyone outside of the grandfather range, it was going to eviscerate the plan and morph it into something completely different, even if it was still called Medicare.

If they wanted to call it a half truth? Fine, I’d give them that in good faith. But to call it the Lie of the Year? No way.