Without Anesthesia... where the evil Dr. Ugly S. Truth dissects PARTISAN deception and media slant the Old School Way.
Friday, 17 September 2004
Ask Them Yourself - "Did You Pay Rather to Do That?" Topic: CBS is 2/3 BS
Economic democracy in action - or "Do you know what Dan Rather is doing on YOUR dime?"
Here's YOUR chance to weigh in on the forged memos/incredible media bias debate!
I've found contact information for advertisers on the 60 Minutes II segment of Wednesday 15 September 2004 and reproduced it below, with live links to allow you to conveniently contact them, just as I did.
I contacted these people personally, asking each firm whether or not they agreed with CBS News' use of forged documents - at first uttering them as genuine - then bringing a little old lady on stage who could only tell us what she THOUGHT, and KNEW none of the salient facts well enough to prove them.
I also asked whether or not they agreed with CBS News' preferential treatment of Kerry, covering up the seedier side of HIS Vietnam-era service as alleged by the book "Unfit for Command," and his years of political activism on the behalf of North Vietnam and other corrupt, murderous aggressor states in Southeast Asia.
Now you can ask these questions, too. Go for it.
Morgan Stanley (investment services/Discover card) Worldwide Headquarters: Morgan Stanley 1585 Broadway New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 761-4000 Email: genlfeedback@morganstanley.com
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S.C.Johnson and Company (Glade room deodorizers) (formerly "Johnson Wax") Company Address SC Johnson 1525 Howe Street Racine, Wisconsin 53403-5011 USA Telephone: 1.800.494.4855 contact them electronically at: their "Contact Us" page.
Be sure to ask them how CBS News' adventures in electronic slander and libel of the President of the United States square with their image as "a Family Company."
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AFLAC (disability income insurance)
AFLAC Worldwide Headquarters 1932 Wynnton Road Columbus, GA 31999 (706) 323-3431 1-800-992-3522 contact them electronically at: their "Contact Us" page. _
Finding out who REALLY pays for the "St.Joseph's Aspirin" commercials on CBS News programs involved a lot of Matt Drudgery (pardon the pun), but it was worth it - turns out that behind the detritus of corporate buyouts, cooperative marketing arrangements and co-branding, the folks at Johnson and Johnson pay part of Dan Rather's salary, thus are helping finance document fraud and unethical journalistic practices during a Presidential campaign.
CBS runs ads for its entertainment division programs during its news programs.
It turns out that these are two very different businesses, even though they both spew political propaganda at times (for a very small example of what is going on, "Becker" had some very inflammatory remarks to make about Republicans - I guess bigotry is OK in a sitcom character if it's directed at people who have regular jobs and won't show up at your corporate offices the next day with picket signs).
But even though CBS the warm and fuzzy sitcom and drama network is also part of the soulless agitprop machine, they, too must sell advertisements to make a living and feed all the leetle baby screenwriters and network executives.
You can raise their consciousness on this issue at:
their MAIN page. - go all the way down to the bottom of the page and click on "Feedback"
In the window you get when you do that, there's a big blank space into which you can cut and paste letters you've sent to the other firms that have enabled Dan Rather to lie and distort at will, saving you a little work; or you can write a very strongly personal message to them about all the chicanery going on under their roof.
Now, this same form can be used to comment on a number of different CBS programs.
Might it not be useful to let the people behind specific programs you now watch that you WON'T watch them as long as their ad revenues help prop up the crooked behavior of Dan Rather and CBS News?
Why don't we find out?
I sent CSI, CSI: Miami, and their movies/features outfit, all three of which advertised on the segment of "60 Minutes II" where Dan Rather used that poor old lady as a pawn to strike out at President Bush this simple message:
"The promo ad for your program appearing on "60 Minutes II" reminded me of how ad revenues your program generates help support the dishonest journalism which goes on at CBS News.
Until these practices cease, I will stop watching your show and all other CBS programming in order to help deny CBS News its revenue stream. It's for the good of the country."
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Arm & Hammer cat litter advertised on the Show of Shame is made by:
Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Consumer Relations Department 469 N. Harrison Street Princeton, NJ 08543
GlaxoSmithKline makes the "Wellbutrin XL" prescription antidepressants which were advertised on, thus helped run that wretched "60 Minutes" character assassination attempt.
Talk to them about it at:
GlaxoSmithKline 5 Moore Drive PO Box 13398 Research Triangle Park NC 27709
hang in there, folks - I had to try twice to post my comments because their server was so busy (according to the error messages I got). I think this is a good sign - maybe some of those "security moms" are getting busy.
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UBS (financial services) helped Dan Rather out in his time of need - you can share your feelings about that at their "Contact Us" page. _
Toyota can be reached and surveyed as to whether they intended to help CBS News influence a Presidential election in the USA with forged documents at:
Kohl's, a middling-big department store chain with several stores here in Colorado, bought some air time near the end of the "60 Minutes" episode. We still need to know what was on their minds:
Corporate Headquarters Kohl's Department Stores N56 W17000 Ridgewood Drive Menomonee Falls, WI 53051 Phone:(262) 703-7000
an even more local firm, Blackjack Pizza, also bought some ad time toward the end of the "60 Minutes II" episode.
UPDATE: Mr. Larry Schmuhl, who runs Blackjack Pizza Merchandising, took the time to answer my questions directly and personally - so far, the only such response I have received.
If you want to know how local firms wake up in the morning to find they've bought air time on Dan Rather's Hour O' BS, with Mr. Schmuhl's permission I reproduced his letter in a post on this blog: "Blackjack Pizza's Larry Schmuhl Gets Back to Us."
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Cadillac Division of General Motors Cadillac Customer Assistance Center P. O. Box 33169 Detroit, MI 48232-5169
There's no "please.yell.at.us@cadillac.com" Email address to which we may send our outraged comments regarding Cadillac's sponsorship of the Rather Biased Show. You have to navigate their Web site.
It's not hard, though: type www.cadillac.com where it says "address" on your Web browser; look at the bottom of the page for the words "contact us" and click on them;
A new window will pop up on your screen after a minute or two that says at the top "Cadillac.com - Contact us" - click on the words "Email Us";
A window will appear entitled "Cadillac.com - Contact Us - Email Us" - there will be a list of choices on that page - click the empty circle next to "I have a comment about your advertisements" to select that option, then click the gray button marked "Continue" at the bottom of the list of choices;
You'll get a window entitled "Cadillac.com - Contact Us - Email Us - Advertisement Comments" with spaces for your personal information (you only have to fill in the blank fields with '*" marks next to them) and a big space marked "Message," which is where you can put what you want to say to Cadillac.
It might be more convenient to write a letter in your favorite word processor, use the program's "File, Select All" and "File, Copy" commands to place a copy of the letter in your computer's "clipboard," then go over to the window entitled "Cadillac.com - Contact Us - Email Us - Advertisement Comments," place the mouse cursor inside the "Message" blank space, and click the right mouse button.
After you see the vertical line inside the blank space, use your browser's "File, Paste" command to put your letter inside the "Message" box. And there... you... go. After you've filled in all the blanks with "*" marks next to them, click on the "Submit" button.
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Almost all the other "60 Minutes II" advertisers for last Wednesday have this same sort of javascript stuff going on, probably so automated spammers can't do to them what they do to us little people.
It's still not impossible to navigate through all the screens and options lists, though the tiny little type "Contact Us" is written in on many of these sites may indicate a less than total enthusiasm about being contacted.
Posted by V.P. Frickey
at 7:50 PM MDT
Updated: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:04 AM MDT
Will Congress Move the Refrigerator to Look at CBS News? Mood: celebratory Topic: CBS is 2/3 BS
In "Call in Congress," an essay posted on the Weekly Standard's Web site this morning, Hugh Hewitt told us "Sanctions against rotten, agenda-driven journalism are out of the question--and rightly so. The First Amendment is just fine as it is, its protections best burnished by searching self-examination.
But shining the light which is a byproduct of serious questioning under oath on the suits supposedly in charge of these institutional water carriers of the left would be a very healthy thing indeed.
On Tuesday night, California Rep. Christopher Cox called on the chair of his subcommittee, the above-mentioned Rep. Upton, to initiate an investigation. This proposal has divided the blogosphere, with critics predicting that the launch of an investigation would rally other media to CBS's defense, or cast the controversy in a partisan light."
As a blogger myself (purely Libertarian and free-lance - I don't make a silver dime off of what goes into my blog) I think that hearings are a SPLENDID idea.
If, after Congress slides the refrigerator to one side, the rest of the cockroaches want to form serried ranks to either side of Dan Rather and his bosses at CBS News instead of scattering, that's fine, too.
Backing Rather and CBS just places the rest of Big Journalism firmly on the side of cheap partisan rhetorical tactics in journalistic drag, and use of faked "evidence" as part of the foundation of a news story - exposing them as the journalistic phonies they are.
My high school journalism teacher would have had to go beyond the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet to find a grade far enough below "A" to describe Rather's performance on this story. And it'll take Congressional attention and perhaps legislative action to give CBS News an big enough rap on its knuckles for this mess.
Rather Biased Lies Again! or, Are The New Air Guard Files on Bush FORGERIES? Mood: celebratory Topic: CBS is 2/3 BS "It doesn't matter whether inaccurate information is intentionally or accidentally put in our paths, we have the obligation to know that something is accurate before we repeat it. And it doesn't matter whether the slander is directed at friends or enemies." - James P. Tartaro
"The personnel chief in Killian's unit at the time said he believes the documents are fake.
(Blogger note: Lt. Col. Jerry Killian was one of Bush's commanders in 1972 and 1973, and the purported author of the Texas Air National Guard memos which are now suspected by independent document experts of having been forged in order to defame the President.)
"They looked to me like forgeries," said Rufus Martin. "I don't think Killian would do that, and I knew him for 17 years." Killian died in 1984.
Independent document examiner Sandra Ramsey Lines said the memos looked like they had been produced on a computer using Microsoft Word software. Lines, a document expert and fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, pointed to a superscript -- a smaller, raised "th" in "111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron" -- as evidence indicating forgery.
Microsoft Word automatically inserts superscripts in the same style as the two on the memos obtained by CBS, she said.
"I'm virtually certain these were computer generated," Lines said after reviewing copies of the documents at her office in Paradise Valley, Ariz. She produced a nearly identical document using her computer's Microsoft Word software."
"The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might." - Mark Twain
"In a statement, CBS News said it stands by its story.
"This report was not based solely on recovered documents, but rather on a preponderance of evidence, including documents that were provided by unimpeachable sources, interviews with former Texas National Guard officials and individuals who worked closely back in the early 1970s with Colonel Jerry Killian and were well acquainted with his procedures, his character and his thinking," the statement read.
"In addition, the documents are backed up not only by independent handwriting and forensic document experts but by sources familiar with their content," the statement continued. "Contrary to some rumors, no internal investigation is underway at CBS News nor is one planned."
Friday afternoon, CBS News addressed one of the authenticity issues raised, whether typewriters in the 1960s had the "th" superscript key. "CBS News states with absolute certainty that the ability to produce the "th" superscript mentioned in reports about the documents did exist on typewriters as early as 1968, and in fact is in President Bush's official military records released by the White House, CBS said in a statement. The issue will be addressed in Friday's Evening News broadcast, 6:30 p.m. ET."
I am really looking forward to this explanation - and the blinding speed with which it can be flushed down the commode with the rest of the CBS story.
Having come of typewriting age (for high school research papers as well as helping to compose and layout type for my high school newspaper) at the same time these memos were typed, I can comment from personal experience that yes, IBM Selectric typewriters could be equipped with "type balls" that had some superscripts such as the one in question.
However, these typewriters were extraordinarily expensive - the one our school newspaper purchased with its own revenues cost over $1,200 in 1973 dollars (over $5,000 in 2004 dollars) - and were thus not likely to be used to be used for casual, unsigned memos.
Typewriters like these often required special skills and training to use which would have meant Col. Hibbard would have probably had to dictate this unsigned memo, providing another witness to the authenticity - or lack thereof - of the disputed memos.
In any case, it's easy to confirm or deny the truth of the memos' alleged provenance - check the Texas Air National Guard's property control records for the time in question and see whether or not a typewriter of the sort needed to type the letters "th" in superscript - and the required Times New Roman type ball - existed in Col. Hibbard's office - or in the 111th Interceptor Squadron's offices at all.
Back to CBS' spin doctors:
"The White House distributed the four memos from 1972 and 1973 after obtaining them from CBS News. The White House did not question their accuracy."
(Note: Probably because the White House is, with the rest of us, waiting for the Monty Python-like sixteen-ton weight to drop on John Kerry's head for concocting this elaborate fraud.)
"It is difficult for those to see whose paycheck depends on them not seeing." - Upton Sinclair.
back to the CBS damage control team:
"Robert Strong was a friend and colleague of Killian who ran the Texas Air National Guard administrative office in the Vietnam era. Strong, now a college professor, also believes the documents are genuine.
"They are compatible with the way business was done at the time. They are compatible with the man that I remember Jerry Killian being," says Strong. "I don't see anything in the documents that is discordant with what were the times, what was the situation and what were the people involved."
(Note: Especially the Democrat good-old-boy network which ran Texas.)
"The documents were described in a 60 Minutes story that featured a retired Texas politician's claim that he pulled strings to get young Mr. Bush, then a college graduate at the height of the Vietnam War in 1968, into the Guard -- a posting that made service overseas unlikely."
Now, readers, please note the complete and total absence of the word "Democrat" anywhere in CBS' explanation of these new (and I suspect they are "new" in every sense of the word) memos.
The man who brought the memos to CBS's attention just happened to have risen through the ranks of the Texas Democratic Party to election as state Lieutenant-Governor, and CBS somehow forgets to disclose this fact. This is the same CBS who made such a big deal about the Swifties' O'Neill having made some campaign contributions to the Republicans over the years.
But CBS, like that famous trio of monkeys, sees no Democrats, hears no Democrats, and (are you kidding?) speaks about no Democrats when discussing where it got these memos.
The sad thing is that no one else in the mainstream media has commented on the lack of arm's length between CBS and its allies in the Democratic Party.
Dan Rather and CBS News didn't tell us that they got these memos from the Kerry campaign - specifically from a former Democratic Texas lieutenant-governor active as a high-level organizer for Kerry.
Yet, while the whole embarrasking thing was covered (over 1,200 stories four hours after the story broke, according to Google News), no one else in Big Journalism found the lack of objectivity inherent in the coziness between CBS and the Democratic Party worthy of much comment. It really is sad that the national press have given up on journalistic objectivity - on themselves.
Another of those things we got hammered into us in high school journalism class was "disclosure of conflicts of interest." It's clear that Dan Rather and I didn't have the same journalism teacher in high school.
When John Kerry Snivels, People Listen.... Mood: irritated Topic: CBS is 2/3 BS Poor, poor John Kerry
Poor, poor John Kerry.
He killed people or made "mistakes of war" (the Uniform Code of
Military Justice has another term - "Improper Hazarding," and allows the death penalty for it if it was wilfully done, maybe to help build a reputation for ferocity in battle....) that killed
people in Vietnam.
Then, Kerry decided to start his political career by collecting stories of
people like him after HIS war ended, and told the Senate (under oath, mind you)
that EVERY American soldier did the things he said he and his buddies at the
"Winter Soldier Investigation" did.
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He flew to France just before the Paris Peace Talks to meet with
the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong (see photo - left, where else - to see John
Forbes Kerry posing in front of the flag he served then).
Now some of the people Kerry lied about want to kick him a new ass -
politically speaking, I'm sure, so please, Secret Service, don't arrest
them.? They're just thinking what just
under half of the country is.
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Among Kerry's original "Band of Brothers," others actually liked
him, traveling across the country to help Kerry win election to the Senate.
Perhaps it occurred to those men who are now campaigning against
Kerry - "Holy crap! If this guy actually gets elected President, he
may just wind up lying about the guys we have over there now and the ones we're
sending over this Fall - the way he lied about us before the
Senate!"
The commute to Capitol Hill would sure be shorter this time, wouldn't it?
But President Kerry wouldn't even have to make that trip - Lou Dobbs,
Molly Ivins, Dan Rather, Bill Moyers, Maureen Dowd, the Peters (Arnett and
Jennings), Chris Matthews, and all the other Spin Doctors of Sauron would
flock to the White House to hear their Lord and Master tell the world how he
was pulling US forces out of the Middle East because "they were sacrificing their lives for a big nothing," or perhaps because they had done Bad Things (like the stuff Kerry said he had done in Vietnam) to the Iraqi people while trying to impose democracy - an alien concept much inferior to what they had under Saddam Hussein, according to the Molly Ivinses of the world - on them.
Then, with a roar of hooves striking tile and concrete, the Ringwraiths of the
Working Press would scuttle back to their keyboards or a-waiting news cameras to tell us all the Truth from Him Whose Past they covered up during the
2004 election, and at Whose feet they continue to grovel.
60 Minutes, part (along with Dan Rather) of the BS in CBS, lies for Kerry again! Mood: irritated Topic: CBS is 2/3 BS In another example of what Winston Churchill called being "economical
with the truth," 60 Minutes' Morley Safer and his bosses
In another example of what Winston Churchill called being
"economical with the truth," 60 Minutes' Morley Safer and his bosses at CBS
News launched another broadside of lies against the Bush Administration, this
time in favor of bootlegging drugs in from overseas.
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Of course, they didn't call it that; nor did Morley Safer or
his tame interviewees get into why prescription medications are so
expensive here in the US and cheap just next door in Canada. ?
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While leading with the factoid that the US is alone among
major nations in not having government-controlled drug prices, 60 Minutes
did NOT say that the US is also alone or nearly so among major nations in not limiting
the amount of money a clever lawyer can bilk out of a personal injury or
medical malpractice lawsuit - a much more objectionable form of profiteering, because
it drives every American's medical bills sky-high.?
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That might have steered a little unwelcome light toward
Senators John Kerry and John Edwards, the Democratic Party's candidates for
President and Vice-President of the United States this year, and regular
prot?g?s of CBS News.? CBS wants these
men to get elected, and has covered up and distorted and lied to make that
happen.? John Kerry and John Edwards don't
care if we pay too much for medical care in this country, because it makes
their friends the trial lawyers of America rich when that happens.? CBS doesn't care about us, either, or they
would have done a 60 Minutes special on that, instead.
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When Morley Safer told us that the drug manufacturers had
given (gasp!) $45 million out in political contributions since 1989,
I wish my wife had had a camera handy, because I did a spit-take. ?In the world that Senator John Edwards
moves around in, $45 million over fifteen years - three million dollars a year
- is chump change. ??Morley Safer didn't tell us that, perhaps in
the interest of his own job security.
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As we'll see a little later on, just in the
2003-2004 Presidential primaries, the other trial lawyers of America gave
almost five million dollars to Senator John Edwards in hopes of
getting one of their own into the White House - and to keep it easy to milk
billions of dollars every year out of the health industry in this country in excessive
personal injury lawsuits, pushing drug prices and other health care costs
through the roof and making them unaffordable to many Americans.
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To paraphrase the Democrats' latest evening news-time attack
ad, John Kerry and John Edwards DO know that health-care premiums have
increased four times as much as wages in this country - they made that happen
by fighting medical tort reform in the Senate, making sure most Americans won't
get a fair shake on health care costs. ?
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It's too important to Kerry and Edwards to keep a large part
of most Americans' health-care expenses flowing into the pockets of the trial lawyers
of America. ??But that's another story
you won't see from the hypocrites at 60 Minutes.? Kerry and Edwards don't care about the poor
people of America or Americans with severe health problems, and neither does
CBS News.
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CBS head Leslie Moonves and Fortunate Son, er, Senator John
Kerry have their limousines, after all, and all the personal power to which most
people could aspire. ??Leslie Moonves or
John Kerry won't go broke over medical bills, and unlike us, they don't have
to decide between making a health insurance co-pay or paying some other
bill.? The greed of trial lawyers and
the protection they enjoy from Democratic Senators like Kerry and Edwards just
doesn't reach up to hurt the Moonveses, Kerrys and Edwardses of the world.
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Even if he wanted to report on that story, Morley
Safer couldn't, because he'd be fired immediately.? His employer CBS News is fully committed to slanting the news
until it's vertical and facing left - if that's what it will take to get the
Democrats back in the White House this year. Actual reporting on the news has
been sidelined at CBS in favor of pushing out vicious political propaganda.
Even the thin veneer of journalistic ethics has been ripped away fron the
operations of CBS News now.
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Quoting from the informational website triallawyersinc.com's
"THE BEST FRIENDS MONEY CAN BUY - Trial Lawyers, Inc. floods the political
process with cash":
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?"The Association of
Trial Lawyers of America - the "home office" of Trial Lawyers Inc - routinely
ranks among the top five PACs in federal campaign donations, leaning strongly
to Democrats. In 2002, ATLA was the third most generous PAC, contributing $2.8
million; 89% of that money went to Democrats, making ATLA the largest PAC
contributor to the Democratic party.
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ATLA's PAC contributions are merely the tip of the iceberg
when it comes to Trial Lawyers, Inc.'s political influence. Through individual
and soft money contributions, as well as PAC donations, the lawsuit industry
has surpassed all others in political giving in every electoral cycle since
1990.
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Several leaders of Trial Lawyers, Inc. are regulars on
top-donor lists: in the 2002 electoral cycle, members of Williams & Bailey,
one of the largest personal-injury firms in Texas, gave $2.4 million to federal
campaigns; securities class action giant Milberg Weiss gave $1.4 million; Baron
& Budd, headed by former ATLA president and asbestos class action lawyer
Fred Baron, accounted for $1.1 million; and prominent asbestos and tobacco
litigator Peter Angelos's firm gave $1.9 million. Each of these firms' members
gave at least 99% of their contributions to Democrats."
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"All told, the litigation industry has contributed $470
million to federal campaigns since 1990." (my emphasis.? Also note, the original article, complete
with footnoted references to documents supporting each statement and amount of
political contributions to the Democratic Party, can be read at http://www.triallawyersinc.com/html/part10.html#notes):
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You can see why I was startled at Morley Safer's horrible
revelation - I was stunned that the drug industry was giving so little
to political campaigns when it had so much at stake - such as ensuring that the
same Federal Law is actually enforced that CBS News advocates we break in its
partisan, slanted coverage of the pharmaceutical industry.
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The real question is whether what the website I quoted calls
"Trial Lawyers, Inc," having cut itself in for a huge piece of the
pharmaceutical and medical industries revenue stream by its pursuit of high,
unrestricted malpractice and drug company liability awards, can now use its
mammoth influence over Congress - and if Kerry/Edwards win, the White House -
to bankrupt medicine and the pharmaceutical industry in this country.?
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It's not Kerry and Edwards' problem if our health system
GOES BROKE - Kerry and Edwards will be able to go to Bethesda or Walter Reed
Medical Centers regardless, because they're SENATORS.
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Over the border in Canada, the drug companies don't have to
worry about a billion-dollar litigation industry, because under Canadian law,
Trial Lawyers, Inc. wouldn't make out so well. In Canada, medical malpractice
awards are capped and nuisance lawsuits penalized strongly by what our lawyers
call the "British rules" system in which someone who brings a lawsuit which has
no merit (like the majority of the lawsuits solicited by those annoying
television ads) must pay not only his share of the court costs but his
opponents' share as well. Over the border, John Edwards would still be both
poor (or at least not rich) and honest.
Epitomizing Trial Lawyers, Inc.'s drive for political
influence is the career of U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-NC), a former personal-injury
lawyer. Campaigning for the Senate in 1998, Edwards received more than half his
total outside contributions from his friends in the lawsuit industry. Edwards
has in turn enthusiastically supported key provisions backed by Trial Lawyers,
Inc., including helping to defeat proposed limitations on personal-injury
lawsuits in the event of a terrorist attack and seeking to make it easier to
sue health maintenance organizations.
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Although Edwards's 2004 presidential run seems thus far to
be floundering, his campaign certainly opened eyes to the political power of
Trial Lawyers, Inc.: by the end of the first quarter of 2003, Edwards topped
all 2004 Democratic presidential hopefuls in fund-raising--with almost
two-thirds of the $7.4 million he had raised coming from trial lawyers, their
families, and their staffs. As noted by the Wall Street Journal, "even
political professionals seem[ed] stunned by the degree to which his candidacy
ha[d] become a wholly owned financial subsidiary of the national tort bar."
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That was the Wall Street Journal calling Edwards'
failed Presidential bid "a wholly owned financial subsidiary of the national
tort bar," not me.
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But you have to wonder why John "It's My World, You're Just
the Taxpayer" Kerry chose such a strong former contender as his running mate -
unless this was a matter of getting those same contributions for his own
campaign. John Forbes Kerry may be the latest corporate acquisition of Trial
Lawyers, Inc.; his White House their most valuable wholly-owned subsidiary.
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All the drug companies want is to be able to pass on the
incredible cost of selling medicine in this country thanks to the Democratic
candidate for Vice President of the United States and his errand-boy John
Kerry.
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And for that, this Sunday night they were attacked again by
CBS News and its usual cast of not-quite-authoritiative authorities - a former
editor of The New England Journal of Medicine with a new book to plug (60
Minutes and Oprah Winfrey need to talk about combining their product lines);
an Indiana Congressman - a decent man in whose district I once lived, as it
turns out - who has trouble understanding why the Federal Government would do
such a darn fool thing as enforce Federal law - as it is required to do until
Congress changes the law - and why the drug companies need to get the money
back looted from them by the Johns (Kerry and Edwards) and Trial Lawyers, Inc.
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Fortunately, the Olympics were on at the same time, so
relief was a channel-surf away.
celebratory
irritated