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Jon Stewart confronts McCaughey over her “hyperbolic” and “dangerous” claims

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 08/21/09 12:20 AM EDT

From the August 20 edition of Comedy Central's The Daily Show:

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Previously:

Myths and falsehoods about health care reform

Media echo serial misinformer McCaughey's false end-of-life counseling claim

Caught with “pants on fire,” McCaughey backtracks, hedges -- again

In WSJ, serial health care misinformer McCaughey at it again

Why do the media -- most recently CNN -- enable McCaughey's falsehoods?

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