# Health Care Debate: Opponents Won By Words, Says Pew **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 21, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-care-debate-opponents-won-by-words-says-pew/625811 "2012-06-21T03:00:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-care-debate-opponents-won-by-words-says-pew/625811/1 "2012-06-21T03:00:19Z")
[From here:](http://www.journalism.org/commentary_backgrounder/how_media_has_covered_health_care_debate) I see two interesting propositions. One is that if there is a liberal media, it was absent or clueless during the coverage of this subject. Two is that liberal talk show hosts devoted nearly twice as much time to discussing the issue as their conservative counterparts, and their coverage was not uniformly positive. (I infer that the conservatives’ coverage was more or less uniformly negative). Is that a fair summary of the Pew report? The Washington Post’s [Chris Cillizza](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/the-political-fight-on-health-care-is-over-republicans-won/2012/06/20/gJQAz6CdqV_blog.html#excerpt) opines further: > [@](#): > > While official Washington waits with bated breath for the Supreme Court to announce its decision on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law, a new study from the Pew Research Center makes it abundantly clear that the political fight over health care is already over. And Republicans won. I tend to agree with the conclusion, but I am not sure that’s what the Pew study says. Cillizza buttresses the claim with Post polling data. So: did the liberal media take a day off, completely screw up, or are they not so liberal as that? And have the Republicans won the hearts and minds of the American populace on the subject of Affordable Care Act boos and jeers? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-care-debate-opponents-won-by-words-says-pew/625811)._