Yesterday it became public that the Baby Doc Maladministration has been actively engaged in muzzling its chief medial officer, the Surgeon General of the United States.
Dr. Richard H. Carmona, who was Surgeon General from 2001 to 2006, told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, that he was being directed by non-medical political appointees, and "Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried..."
He testified that he was required to use the name of Der Monkey Fuehrer at least three times per page when he gave speeches. "The problem with this approach is that in public health, as in a democracy, there is nothing worse than ignoring science or marginalizing the voice of science for reasons driven by changing political winds. The job of surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation -- not the doctor of a political party."
Carmona testified along with C. Everett Koop, Reagan's appointee to the post, and David Satcher, who served under Clinton. Both of them stated that they had felt political pressure, but it appears that the interference rose to new heights under Bush 43.
So what does the news media do with this? Cover it slightly, but coincidentally on the same day SS Oberstfuehrer Michael "I'm-not-a-corpse-but-I-play-one-on-television" Chertoff gets a "gut feeling" that Al Qaeda is preparing a summer offensive and raises the terror threat level to yellow, and that gets all the headlines.
Jesus, what is with the media in this country? Can't they see how they are being played like cheap ukuleles by their overlords in the BFEE? Don't they even care?
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Surgeon Generals Muzzled
Posted by Farnsworth68 at 3:25 PM
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"Jesus, what is with the media in this country? Can't they see how they are being played like cheap ukuleles by their overlords in the BFEE? Don't they even care?"
It's called
MONEY
Jesus, what is with the media in this country? Can't they see how they are being played like cheap ukuleles
They, not the Bum In Chief, made the decision what to cover that day, and they're seeking his approval. The only cheap ukulele in the mix is us I'm afraid, because we continue to turn on CNN, MSNBC, et al, when we have it in our power to destroy them. Nobody watches the ads, the whole cotton candy facade goes poof!!
But they take their lead from the whole milieu of the Republican Noise Machine, which has skillfully moved the debate so far to the right that the Ku Klux Klan can be seen as "moderate".
I highly recommend David Brock's book of the same name (i.e. The Republican Noise Machine), where he details, with depressingly minute accuracy, what has happened to the media over the last 35+ years.
And jae is also right: Money
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