Somehow I Don't Think Jesus Would Approve
Tony Collett has a post up concerning how Christian Broadcasting News is continuing its campaign of lies and defamation against the We Are Family Foundation. It would be bad enough if they were pressing their campaign even if it were true, but as it turns out the crack journalists behind CBN are seeing pro-homosexual messages even where there aren't any. As Tony notes, it's important to spread this information to counter the prevailaing tactic of repeating a lie enough times that people accept it as the truth. The Bush administration's been doing it for years and obviously to great success as the long, national nightmare continues into its second term.
Insurance Company-Driven Propaganda Storm It's almost heartening to see them go to these lengths - they're getting a little scared - though I worry how many wingnut media outlets will reference the report as if it's substantive..? ( From the Washington Post ) The Insurance Industry's Deceptive Report by Ezra Klein In the hallowed tradition of the tobacco and energy industries, the health insurance industry has commissioned a report (pdf) projecting doom and despair for those who seek to reform its business practices. The report was farmed out to the consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has something of a history with this sort of thing: In the early-'90s, the tobacco industry commissioned PWC to estimate the economic devastation that would result from a tax on tobacco. The report was later analyzed by the Arthur Andersen Economic Consulting group, which concluded that "the cumulative effect of PW’s methods … is to produce patently unreliable results.&qu
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