If you want to hear the b.s. in full, here it is:



You'd think that ideas would be sound enough where you wouldn't need to flat out lie and scare people about "socialized medicine".

Giuliani’s ad is full of misleading right-wing claims that overhype the broken U.S. health care system. A look at his “facts”:

– Giuliani cites inaccurate statistics. While the rate for men with prostate cancer is slightly higher in the United States, the five-year survival rate in England is actually 74.4 percent according to the Office of National Statistics in Britain.

– Giuliani relies on unsourced figures from a right-wing think tank. Giuliani’s campaign confirmed that it obtained its faulty numbers from an article entitled “The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care” in the right-wing quarterly magazine City Journal, which is an arm of the conservative Manhattan Institute. As MSNBC notes, the author of the “Ugly Truth” article provided no sources for his “facts.” The Manhattan Institute receives funding from multiple pharmaceutical companies.

– Giuliani uses a weak measurement of comparison. Cancer experts note that mortality rates, which “show the number of people who actually die from the disease,” may be better measurements than five-year survival rates. Under this comparison, the two countries are even closer: “Age-standardized prostate cancer mortality rates are 15.4 per 100,000 people in the United Kingdom and 12.0 per 100,000 in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society.”

The right wing consistently touts U.S. health care as the world’s finest. In an Aug. 3 op-ed, Giuliani wrote, “America has the best medical care in the world.” President Bush has claimed that the United States has “the best health care system in the world.” But in reality, the U.S. health system “spends a higher portion of its gross domestic product than any other country but ranks 37 out of 191 countries according to its performance,” notes the World Health Organization.

Instead of complaining about Britain and bragging about America, Giuliani should turn his attention toward improving the U.S. health system. According to a CNN poll from May, 64 percent of the public believes the government should provide universal health care.

I've said this repeatedly so I'll say it again. To me, the gOP is all about good sound bytes and image rather than with truth and facts. I've sourced and linked every one of my claims above. All Giuliani did was make a lot of unsubstantiated and inaccurate claims. Plus the claims that can be sourced, it turns out are being funded by the pharmaceutical industry who has a stake in keeping the status quo intact.

Why people are more willing to believe a person who shills inaccurately for an industry who has THEIR OWN interests at heart rather than the American public's using data that is easily refuted is a mystery to me. And then when confronted with the errors of those claims, Giuliani doesn't even care and continues to run the ads in hopes that enough people "trust" him. It's madness. Madness thru partisanship. He's right because he's ______. Not because the facts weigh in his favor.

You'd think the public would vote for the person who'll best serve THEM and not the guy who'll lie to them for an ideological agenda.