This may be a boring topic, but I do have to write some local articles. You may have heard about the urologist in Mt. Dora, which is near where I am in FL (for now), who posted an anti-Obama sign in his office. The local Orlando Sentinel made a huge deal out of this and totally obscured it to the right, citing their push polls as an example of Florida voters turned off by “Obamacare.” The truth is, I don’t think anyone really gives a damn around here.
Anyway, here’s an excerpt:
The Mt. Dora urologist, Dr. Jack Cassell, who posted a sign stating that, “If you voted for Obama…seek urologic care elsewhere,” was interviewed by Fox New’s Alan Colmes on Friday.
The Orlando Sentinel made much ado about Cassell’s sign, running stories last week and touting polls that showed support of the urologist. It appears, however, that it did not occur to any reporters or editors for the paper to ask Dr. Cassell how much he actually knows about “the changes to your healthcare [that] begin right now.”
In the Colmes interview, Dr. Cassell revealed the extent of his knowledge of the changes in healthcare when he said, “I can’t tell you exactly what the deal is.”
Colmes: But if you don’t know what the deal is why are you speaking out against something you don’t know what the deal is?
Cassell: What I get online, just like any other American. What I’m supposed to understand about the bill should be available to me.
Colmes: It is; it’s been online for a long time; it’s also been all over the media…
It may be rare when anyone from Fox News gets anything right, so Colmes must be given credit in that he pointed out to Dr. Cassell that the Home Care Association of Florida praised the new healthcare legislation and that the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been posted online since at least August of ’09 for any American to read.
Aside from an assertion, of course, that common sense may suggest that anyone or anything like Dr. Cassell and his sign do not deserve national media attention….Would common sense tell you to trust a doctor that is opinionated about anything that he admittedly knows little about, with information at hand that he failed to research?
I hope for the sake of all the patients that continue to purchase services from Dr. Cassell that he was able to find and read his medical textbooks, journals and online publications with more aptitude than he was able to find and read the health care bill.
And thanks to the Orlando Sentinel for more remarkable journalism – the kind that is used is universities as an example of how journalism should not be done. Nice work! Getting scooped by Fox News is not a great selling point.
Read more here: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-38220-Orlando-Independent-Examiner~y2010m4d6-AntiObama-Orlando-urologist-interviewed-by-Colmes