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Anatomy of a Stimulus Smear

Keith Olbermann explores how Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and other right wingers managed to spread outright lies about the stimulus.

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February 13, 2009

Betsy McCaughey, a former Lieutenant Governor of New York now working for the pharma-funded Hudson Institute, published a misleading Bloomberg.com op-ed attacking funding in the stimulus for a “new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology”–a division of the Department of Health and Human Services created by George W. Bush nearly five years ago. Lawrence O’Donnell of the Huffington Post, counters the claims she has been making on the conservative talkshow circuit and the “controversy” she has provoked on CNN.

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