Stranger than fiction

Hannity’s sexist attack on women’s sexual health study: “Female students … seem to be the only ones getting stimulated”

From the March 10 edition of Fox News’ Hannity:

Previously:

Hannity
criticized lyrics that call women “B’s” and “ho’s,” but didn’t object
to his “friend” Ted Nugent calling Clinton a “worthless bitch”

Ron Paul: A National ID Card? Outrageous!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9CZ5OUet3s(visit the link for the full news article)

Pittsburgh police warned against blue flu

Pittsburgh police warned against blue flu Tries to head off reaction to case involving teen Wednesday, March 10, 2010 By Sadie Gurman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A top…

After O’Reilly claims no high-profile conservatives criticized lawyers for defending terrorists, Morris does just that

From the March 10 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor:

Previously: Attacks on Detainee Lawyers Split
Conservatives

Worlds Billionaires 2010

Carlos Slim Helu takes No. 1 spot on Forbes Worlds Billionaires list as a record 164 10-figure titans return to the ranking amid the global economic recovery. For the third…

MSNBC Countdown (video) – 03-10-2010-184347

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IRS Accounting Secret Exposed. (still Investigating)

I could see what they are talking about as legal remedy – they just didnt tell us about. after all they rule by deception. If you do things in a certain way, success is…

Jesse Ventura points out peculiarity: Lone nuts and their 3 names long

This is the third part of his Interview with Larry King, but what Im pointing out is that the end of this third part. Did you notice how the medias come out with 3 word long…

Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa

Quote from source: We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopias…

Beck echoes absurd claim that Obama wants to ban fishing

Seizing on an absurd claim spread by right-wing blogs that President Obama wants to ban sport fishing, Glenn Beck stated on his Fox News program that Obama is attempting to prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing on some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, and great lakes “by executive order.” In fact, there is no evidence of any such order, but rather a task force which seeks to “better manage” — not ban — recreational fishing alongside other uses of ocean, coasts, and lakes.

Beck forwards fishing ban
myth

Beck: “No more
fishing. … People are
losing their rights.” On the March 10 edition of Fox
News’ Glenn
Beck, Beck stated:

BECK: A new report out today says
it’s a move to appease the environmental groups, and just like before, without your consent,
done in darkness by executive order. I told you a year ago this would happen.
I’m not some prophet by any stretch of the imaginations. The New York Times
said this man would do this.

The report claims that Obama will no
longer listen to the public as he tries to prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing on some of the
nation’s oceans, coastal areas, and great lakes, even some inland waters. No
more fishing. Really? Yeah, apparently some environmentalists want to save the
fish. Forget about the frickin’ fish. People are losing their rights. Who’s more
important: the fish or
you?

He later revisited the topic,
stating, “How about a fishing ban? A fishing ban that would put jobs at risk in
the middle of an economic crisis, but beyond that, you and your son being told
you can’t go there to fish! What the hell is happening to us? How are people not seeing
this? He’s going to do it through executive powers, without consulting the public.”

Myth is based on ESPN column later
acknowledged to have “errors” and lack of “balance”

ESPNOutdoors.com
has acknowledged “errors,” lack of “balance” in piece sparking
controversy. In a March 9 piece on
ESPNOutdoors.com, Robert Montgomery wrote
that the “Obama
administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that
could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation’s oceans, coastal
areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.” ESPNOutdoors.com executive editor Steve Bowman later
posted the following acknowledgement on the
site:

ESPNOutdoors.com inadvertently
contributed to a flare-up Tuesday when we posted the latest piece in a series of
stories on President Barack Obama’s newly created Ocean Policy Task Force, a
column written by Robert Montgomery, a conservation writer for BASS since 1985.
Regrettably, we made several errors in the editing and presentation of this
installment. Though our series has included numerous news stories on the topic,
this was not one of those — it was an opinion piece, and should clearly have
been labeled as commentary.

And while our series overall has
examined several sides of the topic, this particular column was not properly
balanced and failed to represent contrary points of view. We have reached out to
people on every side of the issue and reported their points of view — if they
chose to respond — throughout the series, but failed to do so in this specific
column.

No evidence of executive order to
ban fishing

Task force plan seeks to “better
manage,” not ban recreational fishing. In its September
10, 2009, interim report, the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force recommended that the administration
implement “coastal and marine spatial planning,” which has been described as ocean “zoning.” The interim report states that
such a system “will allow for the reduction of cumulative impacts from human
uses on marine ecosystems, provide greater certainty for the public and private
sector in planning new investments, and reduce conflicts among uses and, between
using and preserving the environment to sustain critical ecological, economic,
and cultural services for this and future generations.” A December 9, 2009, task
force report discussing coastal and marine spatial planning in more detail states that “CMSP provides an effective process to better
manage a range of social, economic, and cultural uses, including” commerce and
transportation, commercial fishing, conservation, mining, oil and gas
exploration and development and recreational fishing, among many others. Nowhere
in these two reports did the task force propose a ban on recreational
fishing.

Fishing columnist Jeffrey Weeks:
“ESPN should be ashamed.” Charlotte Fishing
Examiner.com columnist
Jeffrey Weeks wrote on March 9: “In what may be the worst example of outdoor
sports reporting in the history of America, ESPN has claimed that President
Barack Obama is on the verge of banning recreational fishing.” Weeks added: “Am I going to agree with
everything that this task force does? Probably not. Issues like access to
fishery grounds and over-regulation of species without sound scientific data are
legitimate concerns. However, in no way shape or form is the task force
President Obama created about to ban recreational fishing. That is silly. ESPN
should be ashamed.”

Marine biologist Larry Crowder:
“It’s not an environmentalist manifesto.” The
Christian Science
Monitor reported on March 9 that Larry Crowder, a marine biology
professor at Duke University, stated of the task force: “It’s not an
environmentalist manifesto.” Crowded added: “It’s multiple-use planning for the
environment, and making sure various uses … are sustainable.” The Monitor further reported that “Obama has
said he will not override protections put in place by Presidents Clinton and
Bush that established recreational fishermen as a special class” and that
“nonpartisan experts say the task force has already made strides in better
recognizing various stakeholder groups, including recreational fishermen, and
that it doesn’t intend to undermine the ability of states to manage their
natural resources, as many fishermen fear.”