Posted on 01/10/2008 7:44:28 AM PST by ZGuy
Not a surprise, but still Wow at the audacity.
To those on the political left, the truth was irrelevant,
the truth is irrelevant,
and the truth will be irrelevant.
The left have taken over almost all of our academic and journalistic institutions. They have ruthlessly driven out those who disagree with their point of view.
Now, with no one inside left to challenge their dogma, they are using their power to pursue their political agenda without any regard for truth, balance, or scientific method.
Fortunately, the internet and blogosphere have risen up as a counterbalance. You can expect relentless attacks against all of these naysayers.
Doesn’t Paul Harvey referrence the British journal Lancet often. I hope he can address the issue.
The Lancet lied and should not have printed the lies.
These anti-war Dhim-bulbs are so pathetic.
Didn't know that. I know he does an odd anti-Iraq war rant periodically. He's pretty clueless for political or cultural commentary nowadays. Some people have their 15 minutes and it's up. His appears to be more like 56 years as a syndicated broadcaster, which I acknowledge is not too shabby.
Liked him better during the Nixon years.
NEVER!
And *that*, my friends, is the problem, in a nutshell.
As far as I can recall, the Rathergate affair is the *only* time that the liars paid a price for their behavior.
referance ping
The WHO recently pared this figure down to 150,000. To put this in perspective, there were more than 80,000 fatalities by homicide in the US during the same time frame. And then there’s the annual culling of the herd on US highways.
see my “paranoid” vanity from November. The same physician received the complimentary subscription for about 2 months, now stopped.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1734101/posts
Yet the media repeats that number without qualification. Why? Because it fits the media template.
This is a tragedy. The Lancet is one of the oldest medical journals in circulation. In fact, I once subscribed. To see it become a political tool is just devastating.
not to pester, but please see my post #11
That reminds me — this post qualifies as “Extended News”!
The father of a friend of mine was a one time editor of The Lancet. He was one of the most moral and ethical people I have ever met...can't imagine this sort of thing happening during his watch.
It is indeed a tragedy.
That’s the “peer-reviewed” Lancet. This wasn’t one rogue statistician.
According to a real count at IRAQ BODY COUNT ( http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ ) the number is about 80K right now and the civilians killed by the coalition in year 2006 was about 526. In year 2005 civilians killed by the coalition was about 350.
Far cry from that nonsense that the left foams over.
That price was paid only because of economic sanctions that were going into effect from the general population. That is the only way to stop this rush to socialism. Wherever possible Lancet subscriptions need to be canceled and advertisers contacted. It works and it is the only thing that works. There is no ‘fairness doctrine’.
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