Thomas Friedman Likes Pie...In His Face

The man that believes the world is flat and that Globalization in the way of helping corporations do business at the expense of workers across the world is a good thing, also likes the simple things in life, like pie. Thomas Friedman is a shill for the corporate America way of life, taking the responsibility to care for citizens by a government elected by them....into a world that dictates corporations get to do whatever they want and that is that. So when I say he likes I pie, I mean it to be thrown in his face.

From The Providence Journal:

Not everyone agrees with Friedman’s vision that innovation is the path to climate and energy salvation. Just seconds into his speech, he was interrupted by two environmental activists, who stormed the stage shortly after Friedman stepped up to the microphone, tossing two paper plates loaded with shamrock-colored whipped cream at him.

Friedman ducked, and was left with only minor streams of the sugary green goo on his black pants and turtleneck.

He stood in bewilderment and mild disgust as the young man and woman bolted from the stage and out the side door, throwing a handful of fliers into the air to relay the message they apparently were not going to deliver personally.

“Thomas Friedman deserves a pie in the face…,” the flier said, “because of his sickeningly cheery applaud for free market capitalism’s conquest of the planet, for telling the world that the free market and techno fixes can save us from climate change. From carbon trading to biofuels, these distractions are dangerous in and of themselves, while encouraging inaction with respect to the true problems at hand…”

Well he saved himself from being hit in the face, but perhaps he wanted a different flavor of pie. What people who oppose him want is something better for our world. The Earth is not flat and it does not deserve to be spit upon over and over again by corporations that only care about their bottom line and environmentalism is an adventure is tokenism.

The protesters may have only grazed their target, but the real fight has to be waged with the corporations and not the mere messengers.

Stossel Is A SiCKO

Stossel is making news today and as usual, it is for his horrific record when it comes to attempting to be a journalist. He wrote an article on Michael Moore's movie and one story in particular that was highlighted in the film. That is the tragedy that befell the Pierce family. Julie's husband Tracy died from cancer when a bone marrow transplant would have saved his life. Instead of him being a husband and father today, he died because his insurance carrier denied him the surgery. It is one of many sad stories that Stossel calls "Sick Sob Stories." They aren't sick John, you are, you heartless piece of shit.

From Michael Moore.com:

Dear John,

My name is Julie Pierce. My husband was Tracy Pierce. I am featured in Michael Moore's documentary 'SiCKO.' In the movie, I share my deceased husband's story — his unsuccessful battle with our insurance company to receive what could have been life-saving treatments for kidney cancer.

I just read your Wall Street Journal article written on Sept. 13, 2007, titled "Sick Sob Stories." You begin by talking about Tracy's role in 'SiCKO,' and claim the bone marrow transplant denied by our insurer would not have saved him. You also accuse me of "sneering" over our situation.

In your 'reporting' of this story, you did not contact me, and you did not contact my husband's doctors. I cannot believe that a publication like the Wall Street Journal would print such an accusation without talking to anyone involved — especially in such a personal matter, which resulted in the death of my 37-year-old husband and the father of my child.

If you had contacted me, I would have told you that bone marrow transplants became a last option, only after our insurer denied many other treatments again and again and again.

I would have shown you a letter from our doctors at the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at the University of Kansas Hospital, in which they argued strongly for the bone marrow transplant, citing "strong evidence" supporting the past success of that treatment — they wrote that it could "give him a chance to achieve complete remission." In fact, they called the bone marrow transplant "his only chance of survival."

Tracy and so many others could have been saved by this procedure, yet Stossel weakly tries to defend his friends in the Health Insurance industry. He believes in a "free market" so much that he does not care who gets hurt. On top of that, he never contacted Julie or Tracy's doctors to research his stories. Like other conservatives, he cherry picks certain "facts" that prove his invalid points. How the Wall Street Journal printed that....and ABC still carries his ugly face on their network is outrageous.