Just One Minute

February 06, 2010
Our Big-Time Investigative Media

The NY Times leads with Obama's factually deficient story about the campaign volunteer who died with her Obama t-shirt on:

WASHINGTON — For a moment, President Obama’s pledge to keep fighting for major health care legislation got personal on Thursday night as he told supporters at a fund-raiser about a former campaign worker in St. Louis without health insurance who had died of breast cancer.

“She insisted she is going to be buried in an Obama T-shirt,” he said, drawing nervous laughter from the otherwise hushed crowd. “How can I say to her, ‘You know what, we’re giving up’? How can I say to her family, ‘This is too hard’? How can Democrats on the Hill say, ‘This is politically too risky’? How can Republicans on the Hill say, ‘We’re better off just blocking anything from happening?’ ”

Obama told the crowd that the woman had no health insurance, so viewed that way the Times reporting is literally accurate. However, the woman, Melanie Shouse, did in fact have insurance - she had a catastrophic policy with a $5,000 deductible and did not want to drop a few hundred bucks on a routine exam and a mammogram, despite feeling a lump in her breast at age 37.

The Times couldn't get her name or her actual insurance information? Her story was good enough to lead with but not quite good enough to check? They will be correcting the President promptly, I have no doubt. Hilary, of course, is shaking her head.
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KIliphnote: I did not fact check this.
But nether did the State Run Media. Big surprise!
The Media NEVER fact checks Obama. NEVER!