* BOOS to conservative pundit
Bill O'Reilly for dissing bloggers, presumably the progressive ones, of whom he said yesterday: "these are hired guns...being paid very well to smear and try to destroy people." (It takes one to know one.) He then added, with a sinister chuckle: "'cause if I can get away with it, boy, I'd go in with a hand grenade." Of course, he would. He certainly wouldn't be armed with the truth.
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* BOOS to the
Republican National Committee for--in an effort to help Senator Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) hold onto his seat--making false allegations against his opponent in a television ad. Nonetheless, the RNC "refused to cancel commercials that claim Sherrod Brown was a longtime tax scofflaw--even though the state of Ohio says the ad's claim is untrue." Apparently, the new motto for the RNC is "we're here, we smear, get used to it."
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* BOOS to the pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly, for shady dealings in "its efforts to promote the use of Xigris, an expensive treatment for patients with sepsis, an often deadly blood infection. In an article published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine, the [authors] wrote that Lilly...had manipulated treatment guidelines for sepsis patients to promote Xigris at the expense of older, cheaper and equally effective treatments." more...
* BOOS to the Watson Chapel School District in Arkansas, which recently "violated students' free speech rights by suspending students for wearing black armbands in opposition to the school uniform policy.....One student, 15-year-old Chris Lowry, said the minute he stepped onto school property he was told he `was in trouble for wearing an armband' and was made to wait in the library with about 24 other students. According to Lowry, `in the library, there were two Pine Bluff police officers and a Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy, in uniform and armed, who appeared to be in charge.'" more...