Attending the "Online Tax Revolt" Tea Partytoday at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC for Media Matters, I saw several posters and signs that echoed the falsehoods, smears and extreme rhetoric launched against the Obama administration and Democratic Congress by many in the conservative media. Here is a selection of them:
“Pull the plug on Obama.” The deathpanelsfalsehood, which earned PolitiFact's “Lie of the Year” award: