Media Matters takes John Stossel (of the no fact zone) down a peg

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200609270002

Of all the "free-markets-fix-everything/global warming is a myth" libertarian psychos out there, John Stossel is one of the worst....I don't understand how this person that just LIES is on 20/20.
I find it ironic that he has written a book called "myths, lies and downright stupidity" -that pretty much describes everything he ever said :eyes:


More on Stossel's fact free zone (old article but still relevant seeing he is still around):

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1133

Not only do we spend too much on the poor, Stossel claims (9/19/99) that poor Americans enjoy the same access to medical care as the wealthy: "Our system does sometimes fail poor people, but the truth is that when someone is denied care, it makes headlines because it's so unusual."

So unusual? Analyzing data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey--at a time when fewer Americans lacked health insurance than today--David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler concluded that 945,000 people were unable to receive emergency care that year (American Journal of Public Health, 3/95). Almost two-thirds of those unable to obtain care cited "high costs or lack of insurance." Were there really hundreds of thousands of "headlines" that year about the poor being denied access to basic healthcare?

The "victimhood" of labor laws

One has to give Stossel credit for being willing to stake out a strong and often controversial position. Consider his assertion that strengthening labor laws has set a dangerous precedent (10/26/94): "Most of the immigrants who poured into America knew work wouldn't be easy, that hiring practices might not be fair. There were few laws to protect them. But that gradually changed, and by this decade America had anti-discrimination laws protecting women, minorities and people over 40." Sounds good, right? Not to Stossel: "That put most of us in protected status and alerted us to our potential victimhood."

Stossel is one of my pet peeves...I can't understand how this person has any credibility and keeps winning awards for journalism.