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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore media fawning over Paul Ryan (Buzzfeed and National Journal)
Once again, the media are all fawning over the idea that Paul Ryan's time is coming. Today's version gives us a Buzzfeed article stating that Paul Ryan is a champion of the poor, obviously without any proof.
On Friday, BuzzFeed ran a glowing profile of Ryan, entitled Paul Ryan Finds God, that portrayed him as a man who was inspired by religion and the ascendancy of a new pope to become a caretaker for the nations poor. But the piece, similar to another article that ran in the Washington Post last month, offered up no substance to show that Ryans policies have changed or that his religious outlook is any different than it was during the 2012 campaign. Rather, it relied on quotes from Paul Ryans own supporters former campaign staffers and members of President George W. Bushs cabinet to demonstrate that Ryan has shifted his focus.
In other article, the national journal decides that Paul Ryan may be the one who will fix the immigration crisis, without any proof either. If anything, Paul Ryan has shown little interest in the immigration question and his comments in the interview the article references seem to say he is against going beyond border control.
First we must have the border security, and independently verified," Ryan told WTMJ in Milwaukee (listen here.). "First we must have the interior enforcement like E-Verify in place and independently verified before the other parts of the law that they want to go into place go into place," he said. "So it's not a 'trust, hope, and promise.' It's a 'get what we want, verify it's there.' Then the rest of the law can be triggered."
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"Guaranteed border security, guaranteed interior enforcement, no amnestythen I think that's productive. I think that's in our interest. I think that's good for our country."
Of course, none of these articles give any specifics that would tell us they are serious and based on something, but Paul Ryan has always been a favorite of the media, and it shows once again.
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More media fawning over Paul Ryan (Buzzfeed and National Journal) (Original Post)
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Dec 2013
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(70,285 posts)1. I found another article on Salon today" It’s “Paul Ryan is a serious wonk” SILLY season again!
ha ha Its Paul Ryan is a serious wonk SILLY season again! http://www.salon.com/2013/11/20/its_paul_ryan_is_a_serious_wonk_season_again/ #wipolitics #wiunion #wigov #wimine @WisDems @PRyan @GOP
.....Most annoyingly, its just accepted, without much pushback, that Ryan is exactly what hes shrewdly marketed himself as. Hes a wonk, hes an ideas man, hes reorienting the Republican Party toward real policy solutions to big problems, hes just as at home drinking a Miller Lite in Kenosha as he is ministering to recovering addicts (or hanging with Reince Priebus). This is what Ryan is selling: An even harder-line version of the conservative policy agenda of the last 30+ years. Theres never, ever any there there in his proposals. And weve learned this from the last 600 budgets hes released! Poor Ezra Klein has learned this lesson the hard way. Ryan may be very sincere in his sympathy for the poor and perhaps even convinced that he can come up with a better way to lift them from poverty than liberals, but theres no coherent way in which slashing food stamps for millions and replacing those cuts with nothing wait, sorry, I meant replacing the program with dreams and spiritual redemption doesnt have the immediate effect of making a lot of poor peoples lives harder and meaner.
Its incomprehensible and inexcusable that this story is still being written about Ryan, in the nonpartisan elite political press, in very late 2013.