true of false?

Raees wrote:

Blazer Bob wrote:

Romney surrogate to CNN host: ‘Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead’

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien pointed out to Romney surrogate John Sununu that the candidate’s plan would turn Medicare into a voucher system much like the budget proposal offered by his vice presidential pick, Paul Ryan.

“It’s sounds awfully like the Paul Ryan Medicare plan,” O’Brien noted after reading details from Romney’s website.

“But it’s very different,” Sununu insisted. “For example when [President Barack] Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package, the Romney plan does not. That’s a big difference.”

“I understand that this is a Republican talking point because I’ve heard it repeated over and over again,” O’Brien observed. “These numbers have been debunked, as you know, by the Congressional Budget Office. … I can tell you what it says. [Obama's plan] cuts a reduction in the expect rate of growth, which you know, not cutting budgets to the elderly. Benefits will be improved.”

“Soledad, stop this!” Sununu shouted. “All you’re doing is mimicking the stuff that comes out of the White House and gets repeated on the Democratic blog boards out there.”

“I’m telling you what Factcheck.com tells you, I’m telling you what the CBO tells you, I’m telling you what CNN’s independent analysis says,” the CNN host explained.

“Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead when you do this!” the frustrated surrogate shot back.

“You know, let me tell you something,” O’Brien said. “There is independent analysis that details what this is about. … And name calling to me and somehow by you repeating a number of $716 billion, that you can make that stick when [you say] that figure is being ‘stolen’ from Medicare, that’s not true. You can’t just repeat it and make it true, sir.”

(Link to video)
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/14/r ... -forehead/

From the president's mouth:

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So Sunnunu goes on national TV and argues the Romney's and Ryan's plans are different, which O'Brien rejects. And he starts yelling at her about how they are different.

Now, Romney comes out and says the two plans are essentially the same. You can't make this stuff up.

After some initial confusion, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is making it clear that his plan for Medicare is “the same if not identical” to a proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) that Democrats say would end the program as it exists today.

After Romney announced on Saturday that he had selected Ryan as the vice presidential nominee, a campaign memo sought to distance the presidential candidate’s plan from Ryan’s budget proposal, insisting that “as president he will be putting together his own plan.”

But in an interview with Wisconsin’s WBAY on Wednesday, Romney said he fully embraced the voucher idea in Ryan’s plan.


“Actually, Paul Ryan and my plan for Medicare, I think, is the same if not identical–it’s probably close to identical,” Romney told WBAY’s Matt Smith. “The only change I’d mention for 55 or older is we’d restore the $817 billion President Obama took out of the Medicare trust fund.”

Romney: My Medicare plan is ‘the same if not identical’ to Ryan’s

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/16/r ... -to-ryans/

So O'Brien was right after all. Imagine that, Blazer Bob.

P.S. It's usually "True OR False." I have no idea what you mean by "True OF False."

Blazer Bob wrote:

Soledad O'Brien's Amazing John Sununu Interview Should Be Taught in Journalism School

CNN's Soledad O'Brien did something which is extremely rare in television news these days: she actually did her job. And it was the best example of truly awesome journalism I've seen since Katie Couric so deftly gave Sarah Palin the opportunity in 2008 to destroy herself. Perhaps, given the unprecedented polarization and partisan vitriol in politics today, coupled with the right-wing's propaganda campaign of lies and distortion, we just might see a return of the mainstream media as a potent force in this heated election.

The action took place Tuesday afternoon, as O'Brien was interviewing former New Hampshire governor and George W. Bush Chief of Staff John Sununu. With the actual documents in hand, O'Brien pointed out the striking similarities between the Medicare plans of Mitt Romney and his controversial vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan, who seeks to change the government guaranteed health care program into a voucher system.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-ostr ... 78181.html

As pointed out above, it turns out O'Brien was right. Romney's plan and Ryan's plan are essentially the same. Romney confirmed it.

Actually Romney said that his plan and Ryan's plan were "the same if not identical". ????

The only thing true about the Democrat's allegation regarding Ryan's plan "changing MediCare as we know it today" is that it would take it from a one option program to a multiple option one. Which, I suppose, would indeed be changing it as we know it today, strictly speaking, but not in the manner they are trying to inculcate the electorate into believing.

But the brain-dead Righties believe journalism is dead because O'Brien called Sununu out on his attempt to argue they weren't the same.

Raees wrote: But the brain-dead Righties believe journalism is dead .

At least brain-dead righties believe something. It appears that brain-dead lefties believe nothing and just parrot what is spoon rofllol fed thru the hole in their heads.0

So what do you think about Sununu sitting there yelling at a CNN anchor about how she's being fed stuff from the left about Romney and Ryan's Medicare plans being the same.. actually yelling at her that it's not true...

Then having Romney admit later they are "the same if not identical". ????

Raees wrote: So what do you think about Sununu sitting there yelling at a CNN anchor about how she's being fed stuff from the left about Romney and Ryan's Medicare plans being the same.. actually yelling at her that it's not true...

Then having Romney admit later they are "the same if not identical". ????

Are you talking to me?

I just dropped in to add my gratuitous insult. I am starting to think that LJ is on to something.

Oops. My bad. I forgot what you actually do on here.