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NASCAR Fans Don't Take Kindly to Immunization Alert
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Well, it's not surprising, but this is just another bit of BS-news from Fox News.
As it turns out, there was no such comment made. Following is another news report from The Charleston City Paper
http://haire.ccpblogs.com/2007/10/15...ck-rash-redux/
and more will likely be forthcoming over the next day or so.
Fox News is like a backed-up commode -- full of sheet . . .
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http://haire.ccpblogs.com/2007/10/15...ck-rash-redux/
Redneck Rash redux
We all know Al Gore said he invented the Internet.
Some of us may recall Gen. Wesley Clark claiming that he believed in time travel.
Well, here’s the thing: Neither Gore nor Clark made the statements that have been attributed to them.
Well now we can add an unnamed U.S. House Homeland Security Committee official and comments that he or she made regarding the need for staffers to visiting NASCAR races to get vaccinated for Hep A & B, the flu, diphtheria and tetanous. As you know, the comments provoked a bit of an uproar, but truth be told, nobody, at least according to any report or document that has been released so far, indicates that anything of the kind was said. In fact, it appears that all of this was either a failure in reading comprehension by N.C. Rep. Robin Hayes (R), the man who kick-started this controversy, or a blatant attempt by the Tarheel State legislator to turn voters against Democrats.
See, these staffers were conducting research at medical facilities near Charlotte, N.C., the site of the Bank of America 500, and Talladega, Fla., the site of the UAW-Ford 500. Yes, they visited the tracks in question, but they were also studying if medical facilities in the area could deal with a large scale emergency at either racetrack. Nobody suggested that staff get vaccinated simply because they were going to attend a NASCAR race. Here’s what House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) had to say:
Thompson said the immunizations are commonly recommended for people working in hospitals, holding centers and similar locations.
“Since committee staff members are visiting hospital and other health-care facilities available at or near these venues, including areas where groups of people are detained before being transferred to other off-site facilities, I believe that the recommendation (not requirement) that our congressional staff receive these same immunizations was sound,” Thompson said in a letter responding to Hayes issued Wednesday.
“I am sure you would agree that providing immunizations to personnel involved in public safety is good public health policy, and there is no need to exclude staff from taking the preventative measures that the public health community recommends — regardless of why and where mass gatherings are taking place.”
Of coure, very few — both the public and the media — actually make any sort of significant note of what Thompson said, instead choosing to focus on Hayes’ manufactured controversy. The politics of the two-minutes hate continues.
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Further evidence of Republican Congressman Robin Hayes' tradition of delerium can be found at
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/...911/index.html
where he is quoted by CNN as saying:
GOP lawmaker: Saddam linked to 9/11
N.C. representative says 'evidence is clear'
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A Republican congressman from North Carolina told CNN on Wednesday that the "evidence is clear" that Iraq was involved in the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.
"Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11," Rep. Robin Hayes said.
Told no investigation had ever found evidence to link Saddam and 9/11, Hayes responded, "I'm sorry, but you must have looked in the wrong places."
Hayes, the vice chairman of the House subcommittee on terrorism, said legislators have access to evidence others do not.
Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said that Saddam was a dangerous man, but when asked about Hayes' statement, would not link the deposed Iraqi ruler to the terrorist attacks on New York, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania.
"I haven't seen compelling evidence of that," McCain, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told CNN.
On Tuesday night, President Bush mentioned the September 11 attacks five times during his address on the war in Iraq, prompting criticism from congressional Democrats.
The 9/11 commission, appointed by Bush, presented its final report a year ago, saying that Osama bin Laden had been "willing to explore possibilities for cooperation with Iraq" at one time in the 1990s but that the al Qaeda leader "had in fact been sponsoring anti-Saddam Islamists in Iraqi Kurdistan, and sought to attract them into his Islamic army."
The 520-page report said investigators found no evidence that any "contacts ever developed into a collaborative operational relationship."
"Nor have we seen evidence indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against the United States," it said.
President Bush said in September 2003 that "We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11 [attacks]."
Nevertheless, Hayes insisted that the connection between al Qaeda and Saddam and "folks who work for him" has been seen "time and time again."
"Nobody disputes 9/11," Hayes said. "They would do it again if not prevented."
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