Why is health care liar Michelle Bernard hosting an MSNBC special about health?

[babylonsister]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909090025

Why is health care liar Michelle Bernard hosting an MSNBC special about health?

September 09, 2009 2:44 pm ET by Jamison Foser


According to the Orlando Sentinel, on September 20, "MSNBC political analyst Michelle Bernard" will moderate a two-hour special featuring Bill Cosby and NAACP president Ben Jealous, "focusing on the parenting, education and health issues facing the poor in the United States."

Michelle Bernard is a frequent MSNBC guest, particularly on Hardball.

Bernard is also the president and CEO of the conservative Independent Women's Forum, in which capacity she is busy spreading lies about health care.

Like this one: "More American women are going to die of breast cancer if you and I surrender to President Obama's nationalized healthcare onslaught."

Here's how FactCheck.org describes the health care lies coming from Bernard's IWF:

A False Appeal to Women's Fears

Republican-leaning group claims health care legislation could lead to 300,000 deaths from breast cancer, but uses old statistics, faulty logic and false insinuations.

A conservative group with Republican ties called the Independent Women's Forum is airing an ad that says "300,000 American women with breast cancer might have died" if our health care were "government run" like England's, citing the American Cancer Society as a source for the figure. In fact, a spokesman for the cancer society's advocacy arm says that figure is "not reliable" and adds: "{I}t's not one that we have ever cited; it's not one that we would ever cite." Furthermore, an epidemiologist with the cancer society told us that the way this figure was calculated was "really faulty."

There's much more, but the bottom line is clear: Michelle Bernard and the Independent Women's Forum are lying in order to stop health care reform.

So why is MSNBC turning to Bernard to moderate a two-hour special about, among other things, "health issues"?

Could it be that MSNBC is in favor of lying in order to stop health care reform?

[ShortnFiery]

1. Agreed. There's nothing "independent" about Michelle Bernard's flavor of right wing conservatism

and a side of "libertarian" for an obfuscation effect. :puke:

[Schema Thing]

2. kick

[Bozita]

3. Michelle Bernard is truly the lipstick on a very ugly pig. - Here's her BoD ...

I will attempt to post this list in any thread that names Michelle Bernard in the OP's title.

http://iwf.org/board /

ABOUT IWF > BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chairman


Heather R. Higgins
President and Director, The Randolph Foundation
Vice Chairman & Board Member, Philanthropy Roundtable
Executive Committee & Board Member, Hoover Institution
Trustee, Committee for Economic Development
Board Member, (NY Board), UBS Mutual Funds
Member, Council on Foreign Relations

Directors


Mary Arnold
Vice President of Government Relations, SAP America
Board Member, American Council of Young Political Leaders

Yvonne S. Boice
President of The Shoppes at Village Pointe
President, Fugazy International Travel

The Honorable Carol T. Crawford
Former Commissioner, U.S. International Trade Commission
Board of Directors, Smithfield Foods, Inc.

Jennifer Ashworth Dinh
Principal, Bancroft Associates PLLC
Board Member, Junior League of Washington

Mary Beth Jarvis
Vice President, Government and Public Affairs of Invista

Randy Parris Kendrick
Board Member, Goldwater Institute

Lawrence Kudlow
CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC
Distinguished Scholar of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Joanne T. Medero
Global Head of Government Relations and Public Policy, Investment Banking &
Investment Management, Barclays Plc
Member, Advisory Council for the Corporate Governance Center, The Conference Board

Directors Emiritae


Lynne V. Cheney
Midge Decter
Kimberly O. Dennis
Wendy Lee Gramm
Elizabeth Lurie (deceased)
Kate O'Beirne
Louise V. Oliver
Sally Pipes
Nancy M. Pfotenhauer
R. Gaull Silberman (deceased)

[Cha]

9. Jesus H Christ!

Lynne V. Cheney
Midge Decter
Kimberly O. Dennis
Wendy Lee Gramm
Elizabeth Lurie (deceased)
Kate O'Beirne
Louise V. Oliver
Sally Pipes
Nancy M. Pfotenhauer
R. Gaull Silberman (deceased)


Who does msnbc think they're kidding?!

MSNBC
- Phone: [phone] EMAIL: [e-mail]

[babylonsister]

10. Oi. Thanks for that info, and keep posting it!

:thumbsup:

[BrklynLiberal]

4. THAT is an excellent question.. I guess they want to represent the

repuke side of the story.

[ejpoeta]

5. why shouldn't she? i mean, have you watched the ads on these networks?

how many of them are pharmaceutical and healthcare related ads?? nuff said.

[goclark]

I can see why they put Ben Jealous on the panel but why

Bill Cosby?

[depakid]

6. Because of media de-regulation

which has turned America into a culture of lies- where dishonesty is not only acceptable behavior, but is richly rewarded.

Of all of the dysfunctional developments over the past 25+ years- historians will look back and point to this as the means and the major reason for the nation's decline and fall.

[Cha]

7. Let's ask msnbc..contact numbers..

MSNBC
- Phone: [phone] EMAIL: [e-mail]

[FrenchieCat]

I wrote them a letter......

and added the content of a prior thread of mine on this woman and her organization!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8624129

[Cha]

17. What a bunch of lying scumhags..who knew

there were so many CorporateWhores dressed in high fucking heels?

michelle bernard needs to own up to just exactly who she is.

[Echo In Light]

8. M$M, seeding the public mind according to dominant financial interests as usual.

[philly_bob]

11. Good catch, babylonsister! n/t

[FrenchieCat]

12. That woman?????

Her? ---> http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8624129


:wow:



:scared:

[babylonsister]

13. Why yes, Frenchie, one and the same. Alert the media!

;)

[FrenchieCat]

14. Done!

Just now! Wrote to MSNBC.
I will also call them.

Talk about a stacked deck!

[valerief]

15. Oh, god, that RW broad makes my stomach turn. nt

[librechik]

16. Apparently African Americans need a little extra brainwashing session

they seem to be a bit too much into the public option, and Michelle and Bill are going to set them right.

(my guess)