It takes a great woman to build a barn, but…
As I recently told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, “It takes a great woman to build a barn, but any jackass can kick it down.”
That’s how I described the battle for health care and the role Fox News is playing. (They are not the “great woman,” by the way).
Yesterday I told Fox News directly that enough is enough with their misinformation campaign on health care. I told the hosts of Fox and Friends straight out that shows like theirs have featured lies and distortions about health care.
The reason some extremely popular and common sense health care reforms have been ruled off the table is precisely because we’re fighting off an obstructionist Republican Party on one hand and a misinformation campaign by Fox News on the other.
They tried to resist, but I refused to let them off the hook. Fox and Friends spent months talking about death panels and the miles of other health care lies that Republicans and opponents have spun.
We cannot continue to let Fox get away with this. Our future depends on this debate being about truth, not Fox’s agenda.
