Fox News Politicizes Pap Smears?
When a George W Bush appointed panel’s recommendation of less frequent mammograms to screen for breast cancer was followed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ recommendation of less frequent pap smears to screen for cervical cancer last week, the Fox News story I saw on the issue did a reasonable job of explaining the new guidelines, but when it came to covering the way some Republicans tried to politicize this news in the ongoing health care reform debate, Fox News did a poor job, falling into the trap of covering the so called “rationing” controversy rather than informing viewers of the truth, as I show in this video. The Fox News story from James Rosen, anchored by Martha MacCallum, including the clip of Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, comes from the program “Live Desk” that aired on November 20, 2009 (and I have been unable to find this segment available online). The clip I use of Bill O’Reilly attacking Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in this video come from the episode of his Fox News program “The O’Reilly Factor” broadcast on May 11, 2009 that you can find included in my previous video titled “Calling Murdered Dr Tiller ‘Baby Killer’ Was Wrong?” at www.youtube.com The first two clips from PBS’ “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” come from the short news story at www.pbs.org The next two clips from PBS’ “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” come from the news analysis story at www.pbs.org The image from my wife’s Kaiser Permanente webpage can …
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Secondly, Fox news nor the democrats are attempting to discredit the generally accepted notion by physicians that increased pap smears are bad, but simply addressing the concerns regarding the governments ability to dictate to the people through socialized medicine what is best for them rather than allowing the people to decide for themselves. This is absolutely grounds for politization because of the way it exemplifies the process of socialized medicine whether your are for it or against it.
No! Fox news is a company trying to make money by reporting on politics in a conservative manner. I fully agree that PBS and the News Hour does a much better job at reporting real news in a much less biased manner. I love the News Hour! However, that does not make Fox News an awful station nor do they owe the people diddly squat. Take your liberal notion of entitlement and shove it. No one owes you anything buddy.
I’m offended on behalf of doctors at the implication by FOX and pretty much all their coverage of all health care controversies that medicine is nothing but a political wedge and doctors are nothing but especially dangerous pundits.
@sapofgold Giving birth is far more dangerous than abortion. Where are the pro-lifers warning women about these dangers?
An abortion is far more dangerous than a pap smear. Where are the abortion advocates warning women about these dangers?
These republicans that call themselves “Christians” give real Christians a bad name… thanks to them more and more people hate evangelicals and don’t take the path God wants all of us? to take… it seems Satan uses the republican party to destroy america from within…
I lived in Canada most of my life, and I was advised by my doctor, as any American would have been under the old guidelines, to get a pap smear once every year. Clearly, even countries that already have a government healthcare system in place aren’t “rationing” pap smears.
i got more flavor than fruits got gum
that’s so sad. . .FOX News should be banned
78% of conservatives get there news information from FOX NEWS, which explains WHY they are so misinformed in what’s really going on in Government issues!
Good man, I’m sorry for any abuse. You’re a good man and so am I. God bless and let’s make this year better than next. Happy 2010, happy decade to you sir!
@MEpianist
I’m having a great new year’s celebration here in San Diego. Weather is awesome, like 56 degrees, no wind, clear sky, full moon, surrounded by people who have their camp fires going and kids playing in the streets with their scooters and skate boards and bicycles. Watching Fox news times square coverge on TV. Just had some black eyed peas for good luck, southern style, for the new year. I’m 73 now and feel blessed to be healthy and ambulatory. Happy New Year, dude.
You have nothing. You failed at all points and only succeeded in getting something off your chest. Have a miserable New Year, we both know you will.
@LiberalViewer
A pack of lies. An ordinary garden variety effort that discredits none but the presenter.
Eat shit and die.
@MEpianist
What are you trying to prove, dude. That you are a lying piece of shit leftist? Or just a stupid ignorant plain vanilla piece of shit.
Looks like you’re the fail here, twerp.
any facts to back your statement up?
I have never seen such lies and misinformation in one video on YouTube until this one.
my apologies…..
the sad thing is its my friends favorite news station and he isnt an idiot or republican I don’t how..
Actually I think Fox “News” should just remove the “News” part of it’s title.
The whole fuckin thing is just a tool/mouthpiece for Rupert Murdoch and his “business buddies”. There is NO journalism in simply picking up AP feeds and then spinning the stories in an attempt to backup a particular political/religious view. There’s also no journalism in creating propaganda. If they want to broadcast, then by all means go ahead, but it should be renamed “Fox Editorial”, or maybe “Right Wing World”.
So, since “proving intent” is something most lawyers can’t even do, I’ll just say that the people perpetuating those un-truths are just stupid.
How dumb you have to be to take someone’s position and think it’s the exact opposite of what was said is something of a mystery, but I guess they’ve done it.
Instead of checking up what I’ve said, you just say I haven’t done what I did and are now playing semantic games. I countered the lies.
If my assertions are wrong, then prove them wrong. You can’t, so you’ll play your word games and bring up proving intent, as if now I have to find the articles that twisted the stories and prove they did it deliberately.
I guess I could go the easy route and say they aren’t “lying” so much as just being unable to comprehend what the people were saying.
So in other words, you’re not going to check on what was said, you’re just going to tell me I’ve given no “evidence” of the lies about Fox’s coverage.
I quoted an indivdual in one of the stories he mentioned that countered his assertion. I said for the record that Beck did the opposite of what he said, which is provable with a simple google search. I can’t put links here and I know you know how to type. I showed that the assertion regarding rationing is supported. Check my assertions.
Saying that it’s true doesn’t make it so.
Again-
Nothing at all dangerous about pap smears. Not even an accurate paraphrase of Dr. Smith. You’ve “shown” nothing. You just repeat yourself.
Who says you “ignore” the results when doing tests to monitor an ailment? You said that, but you’re wrong.
You see, when you MONITOR something, you’re not really ignoring it.