Tag: Truthiness

NJ Truthiness Watch — Women’s Health Care is Not Important Unless Men Say It Is

Filed in National by on February 12, 2012 27 Comments

The editorial in Saturday’s NJ does a couple of dumb and dangerous things in siding with the religious leaders who have been howling about the Obama Administration’s ACA rule that religious institutions need to provide contraceptive coverage to their female employees as part of a preventative care package. This isn’t the first time that the NJ editorial has been quick to join the war on women’s health care. And as usual, the NJ editorial staff doing the writing of this thing never bothered to inform themselves of the facts of this business and pretty much just repeat what they see on cable TV.

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NJ Truthiness Watch — Amtrak Edition

Filed in National by on May 31, 2011 4 Comments

Sunday’s editorial has the NJ wagging their wizened finger at Democrats for not embracing Rep. Mica’s idea of carving out the Northeast Corridor for a rail privatization scheme.

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More NJ Truthiness Watch — Hypocritical Finger Wagging at the Obama Campaign

Filed in Delaware by on May 22, 2011 4 Comments
More NJ Truthiness Watch — Hypocritical Finger Wagging at the Obama Campaign

The NJ Editorial writers have decided to wag their confused (and often hypocritical) finger at the Obama re-election campaign for poking fun at the whole “birther” business and raising money from that amusement.

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