Let's start with the facts: Mr. Giuliani's claim is wrong on multiple levels -- bogus numbers wrapped in an invalid comparison embedded in a smear.
Mr. Giuliani got his numbers from a recent article in City Journal, a publication of the conservative Manhattan Institute. The author gave no source for his numbers on five-year survival rates -- the probability that someone diagnosed with prostate cancer would still be alive five years after the ...
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This opinion piece starts out somewhat promising, but then quickly gets mired in the author's biases. The City Journal is highly regarded, has very well-informed authors, and is considered less biased than the N.Y. Times. So the author's gratuitous slam of it mars the piece. In an ironic twist, his comments in the last four paragraphs demonstrate that he does not read the New York Times or watch the news networks. The Harvard study just released found that the media favor the Democrats by a substantial margin. Pretty mediocre for an opinion piece.
