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    "title": "Bias At Politifact",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2012-08-28 23:04:44 UTC",
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        "2012-08-28 23:04:44 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>PolitiFact zinged\u00c2\u00a0Paul Ryan (\u00e2\u0080\u009cmostly false\u00e2\u0080\u009d) for saying that Obama \u00e2\u0080\u009cputs a board of 15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in charge of Medicare who are required to cut Medicare in ways that will lead to denied care for current seniors.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Those bureaucrats aren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t \u00e2\u0080\u009cunaccountable,\u00e2\u0080\u009d says PolitiFact, because they can be removed for \u00e2\u0080\u009cmalfeasance in office\u00e2\u0080\u009d -- which obviously isn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t what Ryan was getting at. \u00e2\u0080\u009cTheir recommendations can be rejected by Congress,\u00e2\u0080\u009d it continues. Sure. But their recommendations can also become law without any congressional action: a process that can reasonably be described as lacking the accountability some people find worthwhile in lawmaking. PolitiFact complains as well about \u00e2\u0080\u009cbureaucrats\u00e2\u0080\u009d: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThey become members of the bureaucracy by definition once they join the board. But they won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t all start that way.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/315125/politifiction-editors\">PolitiFiction - The Editors - National Review Online</a></em>.</p>\n"
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