Congressman Joe Wilson put his name in headlines when he shouted "you lie" to President Barack Obama. As ill-mannered as his outburst was (and this is a congressman from the South!) journalists seem to have paid more attention to how Wilson said it than what he said.
So did Obama lie? Did he obfuscate? Does he speak with forked tongue?
National Review writers Michael F. Cannon and Ramesh Ponnuru did some fact checking on Obama's message, and here are the findings:
... by our count, the president made more than 20 inaccurate claims in his speech to Congress. We have excluded several comments that are deeply misleading but not outright false. (For example: Obama pledged not to tap the Medicare trust fund to pay for reform. But there is no money in that “trust fund,” anyway, so the pledge is meaningless.) Even so, we may have missed one or more false statements by the president. Our failure to include one of his comments in the following list should not be taken to constitute an endorsement of its accuracy, let alone wisdom ...
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