Last night on the O’Reilly Factor (3/16/10):
What I’m about to tell you is simply stunning.
A new survey published by the New England Journal of Medicine, a prestigious magazine, says that nearly half of primary care doctors in America could leave the medical profession if Obamacare is passed.
According to the Journal, 63 percent of physicians feel that healthcare reform is needed but should be done in a more gradual way. And an astounding 72 percent of doctors believe a public option, that is a government-run health insurance company, would have a negative impact on medical care in the USA.
Doctors hate the White House health plan–now that IS a story. And it’s published in a reputable scientific journal!
Or not.
Anyone trying to find the research will likely see it first at a right-wing blog like Hot Air— which linked to a New England Journal of Medicine “CareerCenter” website article that was actually the employment newsletter Recruiting Physicians Today. That this was not the journal itself would have been obvious to anyone reading the site.
The survey was done bytheMedicus Firm,a “nationally retained physician search firm.” The main point of their poll is that health reform will create some kind of uncertainty, whichmeans the “strongest physician recruiters and firms will be in demand”– i.e., themselves.
After Media Matters investigated the matter, the New England Journal of Medicine posted an explanation on their site, explaining that the advertiser newsletter is not the journal, and they had nothing to do with the survey (which, it turns out, appears to have been an email survey of doctors in the firm’s database).
After leading his show with a bogus tale, surely Bill O’Reilly will correct the record tonight. Right?
When pigs fly.
Correcting your mistakes shows weakness to your enemies, the secular progressives! I bet O’Reilly ignores this error.
NEW WORLD COMMUNICATIONS OF TAMPA, INC. V. JANE AKRE settled this. FOX News can distort the news all they want. In fact, all news media can do so now. Besides, O’Reilly is opinion and thus can tell his audience that water is not wet without needing to make a correction. Why would a propaganda outlet make a correction on its propaganda?
O’Reilly must support the Republican model for change, it is called the “Trickle Down” theory. Remember, Reagan invented the concept. We are still waiting for the positive results in relation to our “Fundamentally Strong Economy” (a quote from the last Bush president just as our stock market crashed in Oct ’08). This is the kind of incremental change the GOP supports. Yes, it trickled down, and out, right out of the country, along with all of our jobs. I guess we should thank the former Republican controlled House and Senate for all of their excellent work, not to mention some the “centrist” democrats that were persuaded to join them in their quest for the “trickle down” corporate lobbyist payout.
Bill O’Reilly is stunned. He’s just as shocked as the inspector in Casablanca.
What does it matter? Millions of Americans have no health care insurance and can’t afford to visit any type of doctor anyway. Just more doctors for them not to visit. It would cut down on the competition and lead to fewer doctors, which should make Republicans happy since they love Capitalist competition, but not too much of it. Hell! We might even end up with just one primary care physician in the whole country! A Republican’s dream! The ultimate right-wing Capitalism scenario – SELF-COMPETITION! Of course that sole doctor would be able to regulate himself and watchdog himself, no need for pesky government interference. After all, we can all trust greedy billionaires to do what’s best… for themselves.
Haven’t we learned yet that Rush Limbaugh is legally a Comediene, so he can’t be sued for lies that he tells about anyone or anything? Bill O’Reilly is an opinionator, whose ignorance or outright lies about people, events or “in-facts” legally need not be any more accurate than anyone else’s. Beck has stated both publically and “in private” that he questions his own sanity. Why then do people pay any attention to them for veracity? Are they all nothing more than performers or entertainers, depending on what tickles you?
My late grandfather had a very appropriate saying for Faux news and the likes of Bill O. and the big Rush job.
“Consider the source-what did you expect from a pig but a grunt?”
O’Reilly’s lies can’t compete with the rantings of Beck. He could opine in the nude, that would pull in some ratings, but he’d better act fast, before Beck beats him to it! Proffits before truth or accuracy, is the corporate mantra. I watch Link TV, it’s independent and covers the world.
Really enlightening – continue to spread your message. Looking forward to an update. For too long now have I had the urge to begin my own blog. Suppose if I put it off any longer I will never take action. I’ll be sure to add you to my Blogroll. Cheers!!
“Consider the source-what did you expect from a pig but a grunt?” – haha – Never heard it before but I like that saying. I will be using it in the future.
A friend of mine was recently talking to me about Bill O’Reilly’s fictional book “Those who trespass”. I responded with, “Wait? They aren’t all fiction?”
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