Bad Deeds for 11-9-2009

 

A Study in Contrast:

 

Rep. Steven King, (R-IA) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) make false statements about the House health care bill … and then says all Americans have health care coverage.
Watch the lies.

 

Gingrich and Perry Tout Texas Health Care Mess – Everything, they say, is bigger in the Texas. So it is with the failure of the health care system. Leading the nation with a jaw-dropping 25% of its residents uninsured, Texas ranked 46th in the Commonwealth Fund’s 2009 scorecard of state health care performance. All of which makes Friday’s op-ed by Newt Gingrich and Governor Rick Perry touting the mess in Texas all the more puzzling.

 

Rupert Murdoch Plans to Charge for Internet Content and Block Google Searches – Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, says he will remove stories from Google’s search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online. In an interview with Sky News Australia, the mogul said that newspapers in his media empire – including the Sun, the Times and the Wall Street Journal – would consider blocking Google entirely once they had enacted plans to charge people for reading their stories on the web.

In recent months, Murdoch his lieutenants have stepped up their war of words with Google, accusing it of “kleptomania” and acting as a “parasite” for including News Corp content in. But asked why News Corp executives had not chosen to simply remove their websites entirely from Google’s search indexes its Google News pages – a simple technical operation – Murdoch said just such a move was on the cards.

 

The takeover of the Republican Party – by the [far right of the far] right is no laughing matter. – Something unprecedented is happening here — and it’s very bad for America.

Regards,

Jim