Who is telling the truth in the debt ceiling debate of July 2011?

A while back I looked at the global warming debate, not out of a desire to get involved with politics, but because global warming is a scientific issue of the kind a physics professor is expeted to know about.� I concluded that while there were distortions on both sides, the situation was asymmetrical: �The �warmists� simplify and sometimes distort, while most �deniers� state obvious untruths.� While FOX news was not the worst culprit on the internet, they did contribute to the public misunderstanding, and on TV news, as well (for documentation click here).� In what follows I did not �cherry pick� the FOX website for errors, but was in fact just curious as what the conservatives thought of a news conference.�

Within hours of Obama�s news conference on the debt ceiling, google led me directly to foxnews.com:

Beneath the picture were the following links:

Naturally I clicked on the �7 Myths About Looming Debt-Ceiling �Disaster�, which as you can see, was the SECOND story on the website:

The first sentence of the second paragraph, �Time after time �no default�, seems to imply that there are many precedents for not raising the debt ceiling.� The author included underlined links in the following sentence.� As was the case when I checked out similar links on foxnews.com regarding the global warming debate, these links essentially go nowhere (often to previous opinions stated by the author). I investigated the September, 2007 date because it would be easier to find concurrent news stories, and the truth is that congress approved raising the debt ceiling, apparently at the last minute and with virtually no fanfare.� ��Using Google News archives, I found: 27sept2007ABCmoney.uk.pdf�� 28sep2007EugeneRegisterGuardAP.pdf��� 28sept2007-AssocPress.pdf�� 01Oct2007CityEconomistBlog.pdf

In fairness to FOX, this was listed as �opinion�.� But it was the second item on the FoxNews.com website, and editors are expected to screen opinions and their authors for trustworthiness.� One could also argue that the words are technically �not false�, since there was no real �agreement� between the president and congress.� But the �debunking� of myth #1 seems to imply that failure by congress to raise the debt ceiling is a real possibility that the nation could deal with.� Hence most readers would interpret the aforementioned passage to mean that congress failed to raise the debt ceiling in 2007.�

I believe (as of July 15, 2011) that the debt ceiling will be raised, as it has many times in the past.� Therefore we will never know the consequences of not raising the debt ceiling.� As to what congress should do, I don�t know.� Without access trustworthy information from both sides, how could I possibly know?