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CNN aired Romney attack on Clinton health care plan without noting his reversal |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 9:42 pm |
| Tags: betty nguyen, cnn, cnn newsroom, 2008 elections, government elections, mitt romney |
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While reporting on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) new health care proposal on the September 17 edition of CNN Newsroom, anchor Betty Nguyen uncritically aired Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's attack on Clinton's plan but claimed that, "like Clinton, he'd mandate health insurance." In fact, while Romney signed a bill in Massachusetts that mandates health insurance for all, an August 24 New York Times article reported that Romney's health care proposal "departs significantly from the universal health care measure that he helped forge as governor of Massachusetts, reflecting the conservative audience he must now appeal to in order to win the Republican presidential nomination." Additionally, Nguyen uncritically aired Romney's claim that his health care plan and Clinton's are "as different as night and day," because, among other reasons, "[h]er plan raises taxes; mine does not raise taxes." Nguyen did not [ Full article ] |
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