The Undisputed Truth?

It's no surprise that RekHA Basu wouldn't agree with Paul Ryan.

Accusing him of being prone to lying is tacky, especially when her column is full of half truths and lies she alleges of Ryan.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

First Basu blames the Ryan budget for $700 Billion in cuts to Medicare, but doesn't note that Ryan merely preserved Obamacare’s cuts to Medicare.

RekHA references the Washington Post reporting Obama’s “cuts” didn’t come from Medicare beneficiaries, but from health care providers.

But the chief actuary for the program has written, that under Obamacare “Medicare prices for hospital, skilled nursing facility, home health, hospice, ambulatory surgical center, diagnostic laboratory, and many other services would be less than half of their level under the prior law.” Without changes the actuary predicted “severe problems with beneficiary access.” In other words, though seniors might have the same benefits on paper, fewer providers will accept Medicare, so they’ll have less access in practice.

Secondly, RekHA rips Ryan for reminding voters Obama allowed a General Motors plant in Ryan’s hometown of Janesville, Wis., to be closed after vowing to protect it.

Basu states the plant was locked up during George W. Bush’s presidency.

NOT TRUE!

In December 2008 GM idled production of GM SUVs at the Janesville plant. Medium-duty truck assembly continued.

In April 2009, four months after Obama was inaugurated, GM idled production of medium-duty trucks.

Obama, as the Commander in Chief of Government Motors, could have saved the plant and kept it open for “another hundred years” like he twice promised the community.

Then we find out that four months after it closed, GM entered into a “50-50 joint venture” with China FAW Group Corp., one of China’s largest automakers. GM’s cash influx helped boost FAW’s efforts to expand its light duty commercial vehicles and SUV manufacturing.

Holy Outsourcing Obama!

Basu also blasts Ryan for serving on the Simpson-Bowles Commission Obama had appointed and voting against its urgent report.

Ryan did vote against the plan because it increased taxes and didn’t repeal Obamacare.

That's okay in my book...my pocketbook.

If the media are just impartial guardians of the truth, how come they get so many facts wrong?