Michael Ryan Caught Writing Many Lies...Again

Re: "Healthy Debate," from the November 24th edition of the Augusta Chronicle editorial page.

In this editorial Mr. Ryan does more than just mislead the reader when he ties the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force report to the Senate Health Care bill. He writes "Democratic health care "reforms" include giving the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations essentially the weight of law. Remember, that's the task force that last week decided--apparently as a cost-saving measure--that women don't need to get routine mammograms until age 50, rather than 40."

False! The task force's recommendations about mammograms are not even mentioned in the bill. Mr. Ryan should be ashamed of himself for making this entirely false claim. He should also be ashamed for plagiarizing this falsehood from other conservative pundits.

Mr. Ryan also complained about a 60 minutes episode segment about wasteful spending on the elderly. He fears that this will lead to government rationing of health care. But insurance companies already ration health care. I trust the government more than businessmen motivated by profit, and so should Mr. Ryan.

One more lie from this editorial: Mr. Ryan falsely claims the bill will lead to a massive shift in resources from senior citizens to young people. This is a completely baseless charge and he supports it with no facts whatsoever.

Mr. Ryan lives in a fantasy world where he just makes stuff up, or copies stuff the Glenn Becks of the world just make up.

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Re: "Dogpiling on Palin," from the November 23rd edition of the Augusta Chronicle editorial page.

Mr. Ryan is full of dogshit. Here, he whines about the Newsweek cover that shows Palin dressed for running. I don't understand what the big deal is about this. Palin complained that the photo was undignified. She is an uptight, constipated, celebrity. That's how I dress everyday.

Mr. Ryan repeats (for about the millionth time) how he thinks the media treats Obama with kid gloves, yet was brutal to Palin.

This is so untrue. The media unfairly hyped Obama's connection to Ayers and the hot-headed reverend. As if he can help what other people say or do. But Palin endorsed a radical Alaskan group that wanted to secede from the nation, and the mainstream media virtually ignored it.

It's not the mainstream media's fault that Palin comes across as a babbling buffoon.

Mr. Ryan complains that the media focused on Palin's family because her teenaged daughter became pregnant. Of course they did because she actually did something scandalous. Getting pregnant out of wedlock, and getting drunk on the town (as Bush's daughters did) is worthy of tabloid scrutiny. Obama's daughters stay in school and get good grades. If one of them ever steps out of line, the media will jump all over it. Until that happens, Mr. Ryan has no case to make on this point.

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Re: "We're building off the foundation," from the November 22nd edition of the Augusta Chronicle editorial page.

Mr. Ryan brings up the tired old argument about how the federal government is abusing the 10th amendment.

This is an argument that can be settled politically rather than judicially. If these right wing nuts, think states should have more power than the federal government, they can try to elect crazy conservatives who want to outlaw federal programs like social security, medicare, the national park system, food stamps, welfare, corporate welfare, etc.

Good Luck!

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Re: "Close your eyes, pray and hold on," from the November 21st edition of the Augusta Chronicle.

In this editorial Mr. Ryan notes that some business leaders think health care reform will be bad for the economy. Who cares? All businessmen care about is profit, not what's best for the country.

Mr. Ryan also tells a couple of lies in this column too. He writes, "In an effort to provide health insurance to less than 5 percent of the population..."

He doesn't cite a source for this number. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that he either just pulled that number out of his ass or he's being purposefully murky. The health care reform bill will make sure that 95% of people will have insurance, according to news sources I've read.

Another lie is this: Mr. Ryan says the left got its way. If the left had its way, we would have gotten a single payer, socialized system. This was not even on the table for discussion.

Mr. Liean, I mean Ryan also uses statistics to lie. Without citing a source, he states that Americans feel strongly about this issue oppose the plans by a nearly 40%-25% margin.

I googled this number and can't find it anywhere. Most of the polls I've seen show the public is evenly split on this issue. And who is to say how strongly a person feels about it. That would be totally subjective.

Michael Ryan thinks "Washington should start over" on health care

Re: "Ship of state appears rudderless," from the October 13th editorial of the Augusta Chronicle editorial page.

It's taken democrats nearly a year to get a health care reform plan passed in just one Senate committee. And Mr. Ryan thinks "Washington should start over." I've got news for him-- Washington already started over, when the democrats won the election in 2008. So basically, Mr. Ryan thinks "Washington should start over," because he doesn't like the health care reform plan.

I wonder what his response would've been, if when President George W. Bush rammed his initial tax cuts through Congress, a liberal pundit suggested that Washington should start over.

He probably would've considered it laughable.

The excuse Mr. Ryan uses to suggest we need to start from scratch on the health care reform plan is the completely faux propaganda concocted by the PricewaterhouseCoopers report--an insurance company misinformation group. Mr. Ryan admits that "an insurance industry report must be taken with a grain of salt." But he thinks it may have merit anyway. Why? Because he's obviously on the side of businesses profiting, while millions suffer in sickness and bankruptcy. In other words he's in favor of sick people dying quickly, as are all business-crook, conservatives.

His editorial includes the fantasy that government should get out of the way and let the free market solve our health care problems. "Let folks buy insurance across state lines," is their idiotic solution. But it's the free market that has caused the current health care mess. Letting people buy insurance across state lines would reduce competition, not increase it, because big insurance company monopolies would dominate the market, collude, and wipe out smaller insurance companies.

It's obvious, Mr. Ryan thinks we should start over, because he wants no insurance reform. If there's no insurance reform, it will make President Obama look like a failure, and Mr. Ryan, along with all other conservatives, want the president to fail.

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That Mr. Ryan would allow Star Parker's column on his editorial page proves he has no integrity.

In her column "Consumers need protection all right--but from their government," she espouses support for the legalized loan shark industry, the payday loan companies which are criminal business enterprises.

I address her column in my article at www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/09oct/news014.html

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I found the original source for Mr. Ryan's plagarized idea that Obama should "politely decline," the Nobel Prize. It's Doug Heye, a blogger for USA Today who on October 9th, a day before Mr. Ryan's column came out, wrote that President Obama should "politely decline," the award. Of course, all the conservative pundits, including Glen Beck and Michelle Malkin jumped on this silly idea.

In today's Chronicle editorial page Cal Thomas too expresses his jealousy that Obama won the award, while his hero, Ronald Reagan didn't. Mr. Thomas subscribes to the myth that it was Reagan who liberated Europe from the "totalitarian hand of Soviet communism."

I think Gorbachev had a lot more to do with that than Reagan. He's the one who actually tore down that wall.

This blog is a critical review of the Augusta Chronicle Editorial Page

The Augusta Chronicle newspaper in Augusta, Georgia has banned me from their message boards and will not publish my letters critical of their editorial page. Michael Ryan is the editorial page editor of the Augusta Chronicle, thus this blog is named after him because he's ultimately responsible for all of the ridiculous lies and plagiarized conservative talking points that appear on the unsigned commentary of his editorial page.

I begin this blog with the subject of a letter I sent that the Augusta Chronicle refused to publish. The subject was an Augusta 16th unsigned editorial on the Augusta Chronicle editorial page that repeated a lie about an ABC news interview Charlie Gibson conducted with President Obama at a public forum. According to Mr. Ryan, Mr. Gibson asked the president whether he would give up his health insurance plan for one of the plans being considered by Congress, and the president ignored the question. Mr. Ryan never attributed the source of this lie--a chain e-mail, probably being spread by insurance company lobbyists. Brooks Jackson of www.factcheck.org examined this lie.

A physician asked a similar question and President Obama did give a long and thoughtful answer. The transcript is available on the above mentioned website. The title of the article is "A Question not left unanswered." Mr. Ryan needs to find better sources of information than chain e-mails.

Moreover, Mr. Jackson wrote that the notion Congressmen will be exempt from any plan they put forth is entirely false.

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I started The Michael Ryan Watch on townhall blogs, but they took my blog down and won't recognize my e-mail address, so they've blocked me. Townhall is for conservative blogs; mine was a liberal slant. I was curious how long my liberal blog would last there. It lasted only for three days. Evidentally, since President Obama's been elected, it seems to me that conservatives are less and less tolerant of other viewpoints. In any case, the subjects of the other two blogs entires I wrote on the townhall version The Michael Ryan Watch (ACORN, Mr. Ryan's plagiarism of Glen Beck) will be discussed here tomorrow.