Talking back to the AARP liberals

Opinion Journal:

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Largely unreported, however, was the applause Mr. Ryan received. That came in response to his criticism of ObamaCare's Independent Payment Advisory Board, the 15 "unaccountable bureaucrats" empowered under the Affordable Care Act to make cuts to Medicare that Mr. Ryan rightly said will "jeopardize access to care." The payment board is largely shielded from Congressional review precisely so it can ration care with little democratic oversight. This is how Mr. Obama will rein in Medicare costs—whether seniors like it or not. 

The Wisconsin Congressman was also cheered for his promise that his Medicare premium-support reform would "force insurance companies to compete against each other to better serve seniors, with more help for the poor and the sick—and less help for the wealthy." 

Perhaps most striking, Mr. Ryan even earned some applause when he discussed Social Security reform, including "slightly raising the retirement age over time and slowing the growth of benefits for those with higher incomes." Raising the retirement age used to be anathema and AARP still opposes it. 

In an instructive question and answer session that is available on AARP's website, Mr. Ryan also held forth on the threat of rising national debt, the economic drawbacks of raising payroll taxes (the favorite liberal answer on Social Security), and the bipartisan roots of his proposal for Medicare premium support. All of this was in vivid contrast to Mr. Obama's speech, which was devoid of ideas beyond those in ObamaCare. 

The press corps likes to whine that politicians duck the "hard choices," but when a politician doesn't duck they quickly call it politically foolish and a lost cause. That's what they're now doing on Medicare, repeating the Obama campaign's spin that seniors oppose reform even as the polls show Republicans doing better on the issue than usual. 

Everyone knows that Medicare spending can't continue on its current course, and one difference in this campaign is that Mr. Ryan is willing to say so while Mr. Obama and his media and AARP phalanx pretend otherwise.
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One of the interesting aspects of media bias is also that they do not report.  This provides a good example of the part of the story that was left out which happen to be unfavorable to their narrative about Paul Ryan being booed.  They have also been largely silent about the ongoing debacle in the Middle East as the Obama foreign policy goes up in smoke.

The alternative media can still get the stories out, but for news consumers who only watch the nets, it is hard to break through their bias.