The Media

Pulitzer Prize for Lying in Print

This year's Pulitzer for editorial writing has gone to known liar, the Wall Street Journal's far-right columnist Joseph Rago.

During his obsessive attack on health care reform, Rago claimed the initiative would destroy U.S. health care, “accelerates the march toward a totally state-driven system,” and yes, Rago warned “medicine will be rationed by politics.” [...]

What’s telling about the award though, was that among the entries that won him the Pulitzer was a December effort in which Rago actually defending the widely debunked lie that the Obama health care reform equaled “government takeover of health care”; that the federal government would be in total control of health care in this county, the way the government is in socialist countries.

Thanks, Pulitzer, for rendering your editorial award more or less meaningless.