obama s desk, because paul ryan killed that report. he goes after barack obama for medicare cuts, cuts that are part of paul ryan s budget. he goes after talks about exploding deficits and national debt. 7 trillion worth of votes cast by paul ryan as a member of the house to add to that debt over the years. so i think this was just the falsehoods were so thorough, unending, and so at the heart of this speech, it occurred to me while watching it. there is a challenge for journalists, the idea is to look at a speech, leave it for the fact checkers, and say was it good, did it fire up the crowd? that was typical, that doesn t ring true to judge a speech like this. there is a calculation being made by the romney campaign and the republicans that they can get away with it, they will lead it to add watch columns, this is the front page of the new york times, i know that the new york
pipeline, that is a priority, repeal obama care, give every state a waiver on day one. and engage in tax reforms, make the taxes more fair, get rid of the tax loopholes that are out there, get the country moving, that will allow capital to get going. i don t want to belabor this, but i want to press you further on this. you talk about medicare and adjustments for people 55 and under. you may refer to paul ryan s plan, okay, well paul ryan had planned originally on medicare that made the same cuts on medicare spending that president obama did. in the interest of cuts, he took the same cuts that president obama did on affordable care act, now paul ryan put them on his plan. now paul ryan is running on the ticket now forget those hard cuts that are maybe unpopular politically. we ll undo those cuts. doesn t seem like you re telling a hard truth there, but seems
like you re scoring a very cheap and easy point. no, to the contrary, paul ryan introduced with senator widen, a plan to help fix and solve medicare. those are the hard facts, we have to do this in a bipartisan way, but it takes guts to put it on paper, the reality for the american people. the president doesn t have a plan. think about this. the president introduced a budget, never has a house member or senate member ever voted in his favor but the president s plan on medicare includes the cuts that are part of the affordable care act, the cuts that the romney-ryan ticket say they want to undo. you re saying we need to get the costs under control. you are right. congressman ryan had a plan that included those cuts. he is now running away from it, and in the next breath saying we need to hear hard truths about it. the reality is they put forth a budget, nobody has ever voted
times front page media doesn t matter as much. nice picture of paul ryan, neutral headline, says he is going to defend medicare. you have to get to the 18th paragraph to hear that maybe something was false and misleading about the speech. there has to be a decision, i think by the media, that the story was filled with falsehoods, i think there is a challenge for the media because they re being used. yes, and if i could just add to that, even if the new york times did lead with paul ryan s speech, deceptive, misleading, even if they leaned to the right, they spent so much time cutting the credibility, the neutral media, anything that is not hard right. that even if you did have a headline like that, they would just discard it. it is so hard when you have millions being spent on the welfare work requirement ads, which have been raided by politifact, the washington post
remember, too, is governor romney and congressman ryan are running on a shared vision, shared values, shared principles as it relates to reform in washington. governor romney s plan on medicare and governor romney s plan for the economy have to do with putting that money back into it and helping strengthen medicare, and which is ultimately going to strengthen the overall economy. so i think this is a debate that i think congressman ryan put it best when he said we want this debate, we need this debate and i believe we will win this debate. kevin madden, pleasure to stsee you. always great to see you. i ll make sure to change my diet on the road. the latest on attacks on u.s. forces in afghanistan. the latest from kabul coming up. [ annie ] this is the story of annie