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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 06:29 AM
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Politico, Fox News advance McConnell's "fuzzy math" on cost of omnibus and stimulus bills
http://mediamatters.org/items/200903120001?f=h_latest

Summary: The Politico uncritically reported Sen. Mitch McConnell's claim that the combined cost of the omnibus and recovery bills amounts to spending $1 billion an hour. Fox News' Sean Hannity and Brian Kilmeade also repeated McConnell's claim. But as Time's Michael Scherer explained, McConnell's figure is "fuzzy math that does not really mean what it seems to mean" because it is based on dividing the cost of the two bills over 50 days, when, in fact, the money will be spent over the course of many months.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 06:34 AM
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1. ABC This Week should be good. Sonofabitch McConnell will be a guest
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