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Cavuto failed to challenge Giuliani's "meaningless" statistics on prostate cancer

Summary: During an interview with Rudy Giuliani, Fox News' Neil Cavuto did not challenge Giuliani's assertion that "[t]he chance of a man surviving prostate cancer in the United States is somewhere, when I was doing it, 82, 84 percent. It's probably over 90 percent now. In socialized medicine countries ... some of them can be less than 50 percent." However, the purported source for the statistics, the Commonwealth Fund, issued a statement saying that the numbers are "incorrect."

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Posted by dexteritas0071418

Nine-Eleven.

Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to dexteritas0071418

What's really inspirational is how Rudy crawled out of his hospital bed with tubes hanging out of him to fight the terrorrsts on 9/11. <Sigh> My hero...

They should make a movie, titled "Rudy"...and it could show how Rudy fought the terrorists when he was a football player at Notre Dame, too.

Posted by johnny_nyc8351 in reply to IRONY 101

I figure Disney will pick up the rights to Giuliani's life story and come out with Mayor 9/11 docudrama right before the election is he's the republican nominee.

Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to johnny_nyc8351

In the movie, Notre Dame will be shown having a winning season this year.   ;>)

Posted by oscar the grouch in reply to IRONY 101

Ah, fiction at its finest!!!!

Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to oscar the grouch

Yep...that's our boy, Rudy!

Posted by Pithaughn

How can we destroy this myth "Do you know what it's going to cost us? Deteriorated health care. It's going to cost us long waiting lines, like they have in Canada and in England" I called the dermatologist yesterday, next available appt? Jan 9, 08. Canada , England et al, already have as good a system as we do , it just costs them way less, and of course there are no CEO's making obscene salaries off of health care profits.

Posted by JLyons

9/11 and prostate cancer, nice platform.

Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to JLyons

and don't forget......wife attending cabinet meetings

Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to wolf kotenberg

Wolf, I guess you mean his current wife? What's gonna happen if he's elected and finds someone he likes better? Is current wife (#3) gonna kick him out of the White House the way previous wife (#2) kicked him out of Gracie Mansion? Is Rudy gonna live with the same gay couple he did before when he was bachelorizing or has he burned bridges with them now that he's not so keen on marrying them like he promised. Inquiring minds want to know.

RUDY'S ANSWER: 9/11

Posted by eweston8542983

The prostate statistics war, part twinge.

A coleorectial surgen in every foxhole, thats my plan.

Posted by johnny_nyc8351

However, the purported source for the statistics, the Commonwealth Fund, issued a statement saying that the numbers are "incorrect."

Statistics, slamistics!!!

This is Mayor 9/11 were talking about.

He's doesn't need any stinkin' correct statistics.

Posted by pete592

More of the same **** from the Republicans on health care.

"If 50 million Americans were buying their own health insurance, instead of just 17 million Americans, I guarantee you, the price would go down by 50, 60, 70 percent, and, believe it or not, the quality would go up, because that's what happens as you have a bigger and bigger consumer market."

There is NO FREAKING WAY he can guarantee this!!! 

Employers already partake in the free market, trying to keep health care costs down by looking for the most reasonably priced plans available for their employees.  Even if you take employers out of the picture and open up the market to individual consumers, how much is it really going to effect the rate at which health care insurance costs are rising (inflation X 6)?  

Will Rudy also guarantee that my salary will go up if my employer no longer provides insurance under his master plan?  This is, after all, the only way I could afford health insurance for my family.

Posted by johnny_nyc8351 in reply to pete592

He probably would if he thought it would help him get elected.

Posted by pete592 in reply to johnny_nyc8351

Bingo

Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to pete592

Bingo?

Yep...he's going to guarantee bingo games, too. Whatever it takes...

Posted by pete592 in reply to IRONY 101

LOL.

For the first 911 days of his presidency.