{"id":191524,"date":"2009-08-07T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/07\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-journalism-on-cnn\/"},"modified":"2009-08-07T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:50:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-journalism-on-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/07\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-journalism-on-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?!?!?!?  Journalism on CNN!?!?!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN Anchor Rick Sanchez interviews medical tea-bagger<sup>*<\/sup> in chief Rick Scott, currently director of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Conservatives for Patients&#8217; Rights<\/span>, and went Mr. Sanchez actually did his homework:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He notes that Scott was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fired<\/span> as CEO of Columbia HCA for the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">largest case of Medicare fraud uncovered ever <\/span>, with fines and restitution in excess of $1.7 <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">billion<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>He called Scott a &#8220;poster child for everything that is wrong with the greed that has hurt our healthcare system&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Calls out Scott on his argument that that &#8220;everyone was doing it,&#8221; which argues for a public option.<\/li>\n<li>Did his homework:  When Scott claimed that the fines <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">paid<\/span> were after his tenure at Columbia HCA, Sanchez notes that the fines were for when Scott ran the firm.<\/li>\n<li>Noted his history of shutting down hospitals in the area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When TV media folks do their homework this way, they are either Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, or <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Journalists<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, it appears that CNN allowed a journalist to infiltrate their network.  My congratulations to Rick Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NwjcxyuUf5A&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NwjcxyuUf5A&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/2009\/08\/cnn-anchor-rips-into-health-care-ceo-whos-funding-anti-reform-effort.php?ref=fpblg\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>.<br \/><sup><br \/>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I mean that in the political sense, not the sexual act sense, and no offense toward people who engage in the sex act is intended.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN Anchor Rick Sanchez interviews medical tea-bagger* in chief Rick Scott, currently director of Conservatives for Patients&#8217; Rights, and went Mr. Sanchez actually did his homework: He notes that Scott was fired as CEO of Columbia HCA for the largest case of Medicare fraud uncovered ever , with fines and restitution in excess of $1.7 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1046,1129,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-healthcare","category-journalism","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}