An "echo chamber nation" is what Politifact, the fact checking organization of journalists, said about the state of politics in the US. They're right, of course. On both left and right, there is a tendency by many - not all - to stay in one's comfort zone and be exposed to only one, narrow point of view. Criticism from the other side is dismissed - not based on the validity of the critique but rather its source. Needless to say, liberals went absolutely gaga when they thought that one of their own media outlets - Politifact - "turned" on them and named the Democratic charge that the GOP wanted to get rid of Medicare as the "Lie of the Year." PolitiFact had its latest brush with the Echo Chamber Nation this week. We gave our Lie of the Year to the Democrats' claim that the Republicans "voted to end Medicare." That set off a firestorm in the liberal blogosphere, with many saying that claim was not actually wrong. We've received about 1,500 e-mails about our choice and only a few agreed...(Read Full Post)