Supporting & Debunking Information

This is a video from The Young Turks, a liberal news organization. It debunks the way Fox News frames the arguments made by a panel of doctors. This is a great example of framing for the opposite end of the political spectrum. Whereas Fox frames a potential problem as a shortage of physicians, the three members of the Turks' team satirically says the Affordable Care Act can be spun as something that can create thousands of jobs.

One of the members of the Turks blames the problem of patients not spending enough time with their doctors on insurance companies and Fox frames it as a problem of lack of thorough time. Allegedly, physicians face this problem and it is caused by Obamacare

11 facts about the Affordable Care Act from the Washington Post

This list of facts goes against what Fox News says, and several key words are linked to sites backing it up. Instead of robbing the rich to feed the poor as Fox implies, the act takes money from insurance companies and distributes it for the care of the insured.


Information on Affordable Care Act from the White House government website

The White House official website features a list of popular myths — myths Fox News often gleefully perpetuates through its programming — and a handy app that instantly provides evidence debunking them. Instead of the passionate rhetoric Fox uses, this site employs mathematics to support its points, such as the fact that Obamacare alone will lower the deficit by $1 trillion dollars within a decade.


One of the most outlandish claims — and Paul's personal favorite— ever to be made by a Fox News employee...

We found a whopper of a PolitiFact analysis for a claim made by Glenn Beck on his radio show back at the time when he was also employed by Fox News.

You can read the full analysis by clicking the link above. To wet your appetite, we give you a snippet of his comments, rated as "Pants on Fire!!" and taken directly from PolitiFact:


We're months into this health care debate and frankly a lot of the claims we've been fact-checking from opponents and proponents alike have gotten a little stale. So we were thrilled to hear a new one on the Glenn Beck radio program on Nov. 12, 2009:

"Do you know in the health care bill, we're now offering insurance for dogs," Beck said. "Do I need to say any more?"

Actually yes. Keep going.

"If you are somebody who is like, 'Well, I just, I'm struggling and we're barely making ends meet,' I'm not paying for your dog cardiologist!" Beck said. "Not gonna do it. I'm sorry, the dog goes nighty night."