Conservatives' Media - A perpetual dishonesty machine

[trefoil]

Bush made 171 recess appointments, and would have made more except that he was stopped in the last couple of years from doing so by a maneuver from Reid.
So, what's your point here, that the man Obama chose specifically said market forces don't work in health care? This is the big controversy?
You could take five minutes off from your constant search for something to bash Obama with by looking at inflation in health care. If you think that inflation rate shows market forces working just fine in that area, fire away. I for one, am curious what the logic would be.

 

[Mercor]

Quote from trefoil:

Bush made 171 recess appointments, and would have made more except that he was stopped in the last couple of years from doing so by a maneuver from Reid.

Most of those appointments were made because the party in charge refused to start hearings on the candidate.
In the case of Berwick, Both sides wanted to hold hearings yet Obama avoided any public hearings. Obama is deftly afraid to talk about health care.
And now Obama is admitting that the Insurance mandate is classified as a tax, something he lied about previously.

 

[hermit]

Quote from HelloDollar:

And how exactly did Fox overstate Britain's, National Health woes? This story isn't from U.S. blogs or Fox News but from the mainstream British press."

Read it again 'claiming that we "modeled" reform on the British system and fear mongered about imaginary "death panels."'

The healthcare reform was nothing close to the NHS, infact it is much closer to a plan that the Conservative ThinkTank Heritage foundation proposed few years back.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Re...Credits-to-Create-an-Affordable-Health-System

 

[hermit]

Quote from Mercor:

Most of those appointments were made because the party in charge refused to start hearings on the candidate.
In the case of Berwick, Both sides wanted to hold hearings yet Obama avoided any public hearings. Obama is deftly afraid to talk about health care.
And now Obama is admitting that the Insurance mandate is classified as a tax, something he lied about previously.

 

[phenomena]

Socialists losing their age old stranglehold monopoly on the media.... LOL!!!!

 

[hermit]

Quote from phenomena:

Socialists losing their age old stranglehold monopoly on the media.... LOL!!!!

This looks better.

 

[phenomena]

Believe it or not, I'm not much of a Beck fan. He's a neocon in libertarian drag... He was pro iraq, pro patriot act, pro dept of homeland security, pro trippling the size of the federal govt, pro gitmo etc etc etc

He's not a libertarian by any stretch of the imagination. He, like Palin, is exploiting the tea party movement to get more political influence. He doesn't extol libertarian virtues by any stretch of the imagination.

But I'll tell ya what, he is still more honest and factual than those BS artists at CNN any day of the week.

Quote from hermit:

This looks better.

 

[hermit]

Quote from phenomena:


But I'll tell ya what, he is still more honest and factual than those BS artists at CNN any day of the week.

You mean Erick Erickson?

Can you point out a few of the recent CNN lies and dishonest reporting.

 

[trefoil]

Getting back to this particular nomination, I'd like to know why his position that the health care market doesn't work is controversial. No one has answered that.

David Berwick's qualifications, from Kaiser:

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, is also Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Berwick has served as vice chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force, the first "Independent Member" of the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association, and chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

He is a recipient of numerous awards, including … the 2002 American Hospital Association’s Award of Honor … the 2007 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, and the 2007 Heinz Award for Public Policy from the Heinz Family Foundation. In 2005, he was appointed “Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire” by the Queen of England in honor of his work with the British National Health Service. Dr. Berwick is author of numerous articles and the books Curing Health Care and Escape Fire.

His main obsession:

"Two years ago, he launched the 100,000 Lives Campaign. That's the number of lives he hoped to save by getting hospitals to have standard operating procedures for the way they care for patients.
This includes hooking up a ventilator properly to eliminate the risk of pneumonia and ensuring that a patient's medication is monitored from the ICU to the hospital room to home."
Berwick says even something as simple as uniform hand-washing requirements would cut hospital infections in half" (Feb. 2007).

Sounds like a dangerous man. Oh my.

 

[bugscoe]

Quote from hermit:

Can you point out a few of the recent CNN lies and dishonest reporting.

You're welcome.

CNN Story Fails to ID Party of Democrat Segregationist, But Includes 'D' Next to Names of Good Guys
By Amy Ridenour | Fri, 07/30/2010

In yet another example of the news media being selective about which party labels it chooses to share, a recent CNN online story about Shirley Sherrod mentioning three Democrat politicians included the "D" when the politicians where doing something the story applauded, and left it off when the Democrat was a bad guy.

In "Sherrod's steadfast motto: 'Let's work together'" by Jim Kavanagh, the party identification of segregationist Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, a Democrat, is omitted:

When drought struck the South in the 1970s, the federal government promised to help New Communities through the Office of Economic Opportunity. But the money was routed through the state, led by segregationist Gov. Lester Maddox, and the local office of the Farmers Home Administration, whose white agent was in no hurry to write the checks, she said.

But later in the story, when two Democrats do something of which the author clearly approves, the party label is included:

Using that experience, Sherrod worked with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives to help black farmers keep their land. The group worked with U.S. Rep. Mike Espy, D-Mississippi (who later became agriculture secretary), and Sen. Wyche Fowler, D-Georgia, to pass the Minority Farmers Rights Act in 1990. The measure, known as Section 2501, authorized $10 million a year in technical assistance to black farmers, but only $2 million to $3 million a year has been distributed.

This sort of bias is so obvious, I sometimes wonder why the media even bothers.