This post isn't about politics. It's about being able to trust what you read in the main stream media.
ABC News is regarded as a very respectable news agency. I want you to read the story below. See what kind of picture it gives you. Fortunately, CSPAN was there taping the event that was reported on. To save time, just start watching the video at the 25:40 mark.
CSPAN filmed the whole event. They don't do editing so you can see the whole scene from start to finish.
Did this ABC reporter attend the same event? Think about this next time you read the news or watch it on TV.
ABC report: Ron Paul Attacked for Views on Health Care.
Ron Paul’s views on health care came under fire tonight at a campaign stop in New Hampshire, where his position on eliminating Medicaid was met with open hostility from the audience.
Paul has called for the eventual elimination of Medicare and Medicaid and has suggested that charity hospitals should pick up the slack for the uninsured. That view got one woman in Manchester up in arms.
“Thirty three percent of the children in the U.S. are on Medicaid and another 10 percent are uninsured,” the woman said. “You have offered charity by doctors as a solution to this. Do you really think that 43 percent of America’s children will be taken care of by charity?”
Paul said that his current budget preserves the program, but it would eventually be phased out because of the unsustainable cost. Paul added that when he worked in a charity hospital in the 1960s nobody was turned away.
“I really want to promote these medical savings accounts so people can put their money aside and get it off their taxes, and buy their own insurance and pay cash to their doctors,” Paul said.
As the congressman was finishing his answer, another woman in the audience shouted, “What about the 43 percent?”
Paul, seemingly taken off guard, shot back, “You mean when? Right now?”
“I described this transition,” Paul responded over the voice of the woman.
“Why not look at how the country looked before 1965. Maybe it wouldn’t cost so much,” Paul said.
Paul’s voice then picked up as he stared at the woman and acknowledged that his own plans may seem “cold hearted,” but he is ultimately trying to save the country from financial ruin.
Now watch the CSPAN video . You can start at the 25:40 mark. Does the reporting reflect what really happened? How do they distort other events?
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