Roy Blunt (R-MO) caught lying about health reform, slammed in hometown paper

[kpete]

The (un)truth about health reform

August 19, 2009

Editor's note: U.S Rep. Roy Blunt also made the same claim about hip surgery to editors and editorial advisory board members at the News-Leader during a recent interview.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Aug. 17, 2009:

As chairman of the House Republican Health Care Solutions Group, Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Springfield, knows a thing or two about health care. But some of what he knows just isn't true.

"I'm 59," Mr. Blunt said last week during a meeting with Post-Dispatch reporters and editors. "In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldn't get it replaced."

We fact-checked that. At least 63 percent of hip replacements performed in Canada last year and two-thirds of those done in England were on patients age 65 or older. More than 1,200 in Canada were done on people older than 85.

"I didn't just pull that number out of thin air," Mr. Blunt said in a subsequent interview. It came, he said, from testimony before the House Subcommittee on Health by "some people who are supposed to be experts on Canadian health care."

"I had been given that example. I was told that 59 is the cutoff," he said.


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[mediaman007]

1. Maybe he should be "cut off" of the House payroll!

[gatorboy]

10. And the health care I help pay for him.

[FiveGoodMen]

17. He should be cut off alright!

And he shouldn't get THAT replaced, either.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Wow! There's some REAL journalism going on somewhere

Too bad it's not happening at CNN, MSNBC, et. al. :eyes:

[havocmom]

3. K & R everything you see that shows their lies

:kick:

[City Lights]

4. Good to see he's being called out.

No, Roy, you didn't just pull that number out of thin air, your supposed eggspurt on Canadian health care did. You just burped up what you'd been spoon fed by your eggspurt. Fool.

typo edit

[ashling]

11. Garbage in

Garbage out

[peekaloo]

5. Headline: Congress critter shoots from hip injures self.

admitted to hospital his insurance company refuse to pay to have his head removed from his arse stating it's a "pre-existing condition".

[JBoy]

12. LOL. I liked that.

[Maru Kitteh]

16. pad dum pum!

[Soylent Brice]

6. K&R -- EXPOSE THE LIARS.

call them out at every turn, publicly.

[DailyGrind51]

7. He was told and he didn't both to check it out?

i suppose if his dog told him to go out and kill people, he would?

[jtrockville]

8. If there were consequences, maybe people wouldn't lie to Congress.

[BolivarianHero]

9. heh...He must have been smoking fat to make up such a tall tale...

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Lying comes so natural to a republican...

It's what they do from the time they learn to talk.

Edit...A good rule of thumb...If a republican's mouth is moving he's either lying or kissing some billionaire's ass.

[formercia]

14. ""I didn't just pull that number out of thin air," Mr. Blunt said"

"I pulled it out of my Ass."

[Viking12]

15. Step 1: Invite Fake Expert to Testify Before Congress..

Step 2: Repeat lies told by Fake Expert
Step 3: When called on lies say, "it wasn't me1"

Congressional CYA in 3 simple steps

[Jim Lane]

18. Actually, Blunt's lying was even worse than that

Blunt's defense was that some unnamed witness had told Congress this lie about Canadian and British health care. PolitiFact looked into that aspect and reported:

We looked through past Congressional testimony using both Congressional Quarterly and Google but we couldn't find a reference that fit the description. Blunt's office did not respond to our request for an explanation. (from )

It's a great timesaver. Why bother with even finding and inviting a fake expert, when you can just make things up?

[Viking12]

19. Thanks for that find. Blunt is a douchebag.