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It's difficult to out-Oz Dr. Oz, America's Quack, who has raked in giant piles of money by promoting pseudoscience on his TV show. But at least one person comes perilously close: Dr. Mark Hyman. Hyman is the "Dr. Oz" of nutrition. He embraces legitimate science if and only if it suits his bottom line. Otherwise, he's promoting junk science and magical thinking. To get an idea of the sort of nonsense that he spews, his website features an interview with the Food Babe, as well as his infuriatingly stupid quote, "Food isn't like medicine, it is medicine." The comma splice...

Attempt to criminalize free speech fails Jim Kouri August 1, 2005 With so much violent crime in America, and a serious terrorist threat with which to contend, the leaders of the Democrat National Committee decided to crack down on criminal behavior: they filed charges with the Federal Election Commission against television stations that dared to air a documentary considered harmful to their candidate for President of the United States during the 2004 election cycle. The DNC filed charges against Sinclair Broadcast Group, their news commentator Mark Hyman, and one of Sinclair's vice presidents, Frederick Smith, alleging they violated FEC regulations....

Ninth Court Of Appeals The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit would easily become the laughingstock of the judicial world if it were not for the fact that its rulings affect so many people and institutions. Rulings by the 9th apply to the nine westernmost states. In the last several years, the 9th has led other courts in the number of decisions overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. In the most recent session, the nation's highest court ruled on 80 cases. Twenty-five of those were from the 9th. The remaining 55 cases came from the other 12 circuits...

I wasn't going to address this and then I thought "what the heck?" Several days before Christmas -- and please note, I said "Christmas" and not "the holiday season" and that alone will anger the liberals -- a collection of obscure groups and individuals made a desperate plea for attention. They launched a campaign to pressure advertisers of this station because of this two-minute segment, The Point. Gasp! I've got opinion in my opinion segment. And not only that, but it presents only one point-of-view. (Segment on tape - scene from "Casablanca") Rick: "How can you close me up? On...

Despite George Bush’s resounding victory this past election day, liberal groups are still working tirelessly to attack Sinclair Broadcasting and it chief commentator Mark Hyman. Sinclair Broadcasting Group – a TV broadcast grounp whose 62 stations reach about one-quarter of the U.S. market – became the focal point of Democratic attacks this fall when it announced it planned to air “Stolen Honor,” an unflattering documentary of John Kerry’s anti-Vietnam war days. In the end, Sinclair aired only four minutes of the documentary as part of a larger news program that even critics said was overly fair to John Kerry. But...

I really like this guy. I watch him regularly on channel 13 in Portland, Maine. He holds nothing back. He's been especially good all week long. Tonight he took on more than 100 Democratic Senators and Representatives who threatened Sinclair over its airing of "Stolen Honor." He names names. He has a link for 103 Dems who tried to censor the network.

The Point's Mark Hyman slaps down an editorial page writer at The New York Times! Bias & Arrogance At The New York Times "Will America's Veterans Please Shut Up?" That's the sentiments expressed by the New York Times. In a conversation I had with editorial writer Andrew Rosenthal during the recent brouhaha over John Kerry's snub of American POWs, Rosenthal offered a perspective of how the paper views America's servicemen and women. "I'm sick of hearing about Vietnam," he offered. Rosenthal made it clear that the New York Times didn't deem it newsworthy that 13 American POWs including two Medal...

Mark Hyman of The Point does it again! He got the goods on ABC's Ted Koppel who fabricated news by selectively quoting from one Navy document and then ignoring entire passages from the same document, which discredit Koppel's attempt to back up Kerry's fake claims over his Silver Star. THE ABCs OF NIGHTLINE On Thursday, October 14th, Ted Koppel - of Koppelgate fame - aired a program that was intended to validate John Kerry's version of how he "overwhelmed a numerically superior force" when he won his Silver Star. The problem was - well, let's put it this way. If...

Complaints against the Sinclair Broadcasting network by John Kerry's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee may have backfired, with non-Sinclair TV stations now expressing an interest in airing the documentary "Stolen Honor," which chronicles the candidate's role in the anti-Vietnam War movement. "A few other TV stations around the country have contacted the producer of this documentary as well," Sinclair spokesman Mark Hyman told nationally syndicated radio host G. Gordon Liddy on Tuesday. "So there appears to be some growing interest in making this available to the nation's viewers." Hyman said that Sinclair's decision to air the documentary was...

...Terry McAuliffe called the program "an illegal in-kind contribution" to the Bush campaign and said the Democratic National Committee is filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. Over at the FCC, Democratic Commissioner Michael Copps interrupted his Columbus Day holiday to dub the broadcast "an abuse of the public trust." More ominously, Kerry adviser Chad Clanton told Fox News yesterday that "I think they (Sinclair) are going to regret doing this, and they better hope we don't win." ...It wasn't the intention of the Founders to give elected officials veto power over press reports.... The excuse for such broadcast...

Although 62 television stations owned or managed by the Sinclair Broadcasting Group will air the "Stolen Honor" documentary critical of Sen. John Kerry's anti-war activities, none of them is in Northeast Ohio. Still, those interested in seeing the film have at least two immediate options. Red, White and Blue Productions, the company responsible for the documentary, maintains a Web site - www.stolenhonor.com - that explains how the film can be viewed online as pay- per-view video or ordered for $19.95 in DVD or VHS formats. "Streaming video or purchase are the two best ways for people in Cleveland to see...

"Private property [shall not] be taken for public use without just compensation." So says the Constitution's Fifth Amendment. In other words, your home is your castle and the local government must pay you a fair value if it puts a new road through your backyard for the public good. But some states have stretched the meaning of the phrase "the public good." Last year, city fathers in Alabaster, Alabama in suburban Birmingham wanted to condemn 10 homes to make way for a shopping center. Two years ago California's Cypress City leaders tried to seize church property so that Costco would...

Mark Hyman just interviewed by Brit Hume on Special Report standing firm against Kerry campaign threats. This guy is rock solid. I wonder if he'd consider running for office himself.

The statement by Mark Hyman, vice president of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, that the television networks were "acting like Holocaust deniers" with regard to coverage of anti-Kerry veterans groups is grossly inappropriate ("Sinclair Stations to Air Anti-Kerry Documentary," Oct. 11). Regardless of Mr. Hyman's opinion of the quality of news coverage relating to Presidential campaign issues, his analogy to those who deny the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and millions of others is insensitive and painful. Usage of Holocaust imagery to score a political point is unacceptable. He should repudiate the comment. Sincerely, Abraham H. Foxman National Director

[CUT] Brown set up his first October 11 NewsNight segment with a promise of fairness: "For those of you who believe that most media is hopelessly liberal, this will be the proof. You won't hear or believe that if the story in question were about an anti-Bush film, let's say 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' we would say exactly the same thing, do the segment exactly the same way, ask the same questions. We would. But we're not naive enough to believe that you would believe. So this segment is really for everyone else, for those who worry about fairness in media, who...

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Party and 18 senators are objecting to a broadcasting company's plan to air on 62 TV stations a critical documentary about John Kerry's (search) anti-war activities after he returned home from Vietnam three decades ago. Sinclair Broadcast Group (search) has asked its television stations — many of them in competitive states in the presidential election — to pre-empt regular programming to run the documentary as part of an hourlong program two weeks before the Nov. 2 election. Based near Baltimore, the company owns or manages affiliates of major broadcast networks in several states, including Ohio, Florida...