Fact-checking Sarah Palin at CPAC

[The Straight Story]

Fact-checking Sarah Palin at CPAC


Sarah Palin told her fellow conservatives at the Conservative Political Action Conference that "there are more uninsured today than when Obama began all of this," referring to the Affordable Care Act. But there is no evidence of that.

Annual Census surveys show the percentage of uninsured Americans in 2010, when the ACA became law, was 16.3%. It dropped to 15.7% in 2011 and 15.4% in 2012. Gallup surveys show the percentage of uninsured Americans hit a five-year low in the first two months of this year.

The former Alaska governor gave the closing speech Saturday evening at CPAC, a three-day affair hosted annually by the American Conservative Union. Palin brought the confab to a "rousing finish," as the conservative Newsmax put it, attacking both Democrats and establishment Republicans.

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As for the state of the "uninsured today," which was Palin's time frame, Gallup regularly conducts a survey called the Well-Being Index of more than 28,000 Americans. On March 10, Gallup issued a press release on its latest survey that carried the headline, "U.S. Uninsured Rate Continues to Fall." The survey, which covered Jan. 2 to Feb. 28, shows the percentage of uninsured Americans hit a new five-year low at 15.9%, down from 17.1% in the final quarter of 2013.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/10/fact-check-sarah-palin-cpac/6264993/

[Scuba]

1. Facts? She don't need no steenkin' facts.

[Blue Owl]

2. I think the world's worst job would be transcribing Palin's speeches

Listening to that shrieking voice blithering and rasping and then writing down that nonsensical spew... GAH! I'd go insane.

[JHB]

3. "Facts?" "Forget it, she's on a roll"

---comments heard during a speech by Senator Blutarski (R-AK)

[shenmue]

5. Win!

[Beach Rat]

4. There's some kind of punch line missing here, right?

Fact-checking Sara Palin! Ha! That's a good one.