{"id":130472,"date":"2016-04-22T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T13:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/22\/more-snake-oil-from-fox-news-of-course.html"},"modified":"2016-04-22T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T13:04:21","slug":"more-snake-oil-from-fox-news-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/22\/more-snake-oil-from-fox-news-of-course.html","title":{"rendered":"More snake oil from Fox News, of course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if all of <i>thoroughly discredited<\/i> anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield&#39;s claims were true (they are not), the suffering and lives lost due to his <i>completely debunked<\/i> research has far exceeded those claims.<\/p>\n<p>Not that this stops Fox News from giving him yet another platform, this one with (of course) a juicy anti-government and &quot;Political Correctness&quot; spin.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this will not lead to more parents shunning vaccines for their kids, leading to further resurgence of diseases like whooping cough and measles. Because I wouldn&#39;t wish that on even the family of my &quot;Fox Friends.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2016\/04\/21\/fox-provides-platform-discredited-doctor-claim-cdc-hiding-evidence-vaccines-cause-autism\/210015'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Keh2d296nz8Tz8yQ5TGQbAVGoblIIS3JmT-y9mj9l0e7h3mpo5NbNEGCCqSeoX8I5Wt9k3mO1P4vX7I6CHjKMfTjMt8KUXGkvuKqA3RtlTh8of7q-mSXvvDQb0St8nSFc-AipSRtC70TT7upEYk_=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2016\/04\/21\/fox-provides-platform-discredited-doctor-claim-cdc-hiding-evidence-vaccines-cause-autism\/210015'>Fox Provides Platform For Discredited Doctor To Claim CDC Is Hiding Evidence That Vaccines Cause Autism<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFrom the April 21 edition of Fox News&#8217; Fox &#038; Friends:\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/NfUEkoekxhG'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if all of thoroughly discredited anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield&#39;s claims were true (they are not), the suffering and lives lost due to his completely debunked research has far exceeded those claims. Not that this stops Fox News from giving him yet another platform, this one with (of course) a juicy anti-government and &quot;Political Correctness&quot; spin. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/22\/more-snake-oil-from-fox-news-of-course.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More snake oil from Fox News, of course&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26106,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/cognitive-dissonance-from-fox-news-surprise-surprise.html","url_meta":{"origin":130472,"position":0},"title":"Cognitive dissonance from Fox News (surprise, surprise)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Feb-12 11:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because, after all, it's impossible for the numbers to show job gains under an Obama Administration, so clearly the numbers must be cooked. Yeesh. #ddtbReshared post from +donald mclaughlinThis is disgusting - and I don't say this too often - but anti-American. Embedded Link The Maddow Blog - Explaining job\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20308,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/unblogged-bits-wed-23-feb-11-1630.html","url_meta":{"origin":130472,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 23-Feb-11 1630)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Feb-11 4:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... Offensitivity - SMBC February 23, 2011 - Truth. Zits for 2\/23\/2011 - And, yes, I've seen (whisperdonewhisper) this behavior before, too. Zits for 2\/22\/2011 - Yeah, that's about right ... 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Perish the thought! - Oh, and another Fox Sports commentator sniffs at Serena Williams doing a little dance\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Band and Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Band and Music","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/school-daze\/band-school-daze"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/junk-300x198.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":38478,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/fox-news-hotbed-oh-my-of-pro-gay-propaganda.html","url_meta":{"origin":130472,"position":4},"title":"Fox News: Hotbed (oh, my!) of Pro-Gay Propaganda!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Aug-13 9:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And \"why conservatives should stop watching Fox News because of the conspicuous gay and lesbian pandering\". \u00a0Crikey.Don't worry, Fox News viewers. \u00a0\u00a0Peter LaBarbera and Bryan Fischer's screeds notwithstanding, Fox News is definitely not pro-gay. \u00a0(See\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/Rl8eWm for more.) 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