The Media Blitz about the Budget -- 2

In a piece in the Weekly Standard, John McCormack writes about the town hall meetings held by congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the author of the GOP budget proposal. I had seen the media coverage of the Ryan meetings. For the most part, the coverage began and ended with discussion of those who came to oppose Ryan's plan. From watching the coverage, it seemed that there was massive anger against Ryan for his budget work. Now that I have read McCormack's article, I learn that (as I had suspected) the large majority of those attending the town hall meetings supported the Ryan plan.

One town hall that was prominently featured in the media was the one at which a heckler was eventually escorted out for disrupting the meeting. It was a "sign of anger" we were told by the media. Now I learn that after the man was removed, another person at the same meeting thanked Ryan for his budget and for doing the right thing with the result that ryan then got a standing ovation. So much for widespread anger.