thinkprogress.org— Imus: "They will cherry pick some places for me to go look at, but they don’t want me just going down there looking at the entire facility. I’m not interested in having that."
Feb 22, 2007View in Crawl 4
It doesn't surprise me, and it's not because of any conspiracy theory. My wife has a number of spinal injuries and she goes in for a number of outpatient treatments (injecting certain things around her spine) in a pain clinic. They will not let me back there to wait with her, not because of sterility, etc issues but because of right to privacy. Their area is basically like an ER room, basically with beds and sheets between them, I am not allowed to go back there because each patient has their right to not have their medical information known by others. A TV news team can't just randomly go through any random hospital in the US, open doors and start interviewing people they have a right/expectation of privacy. Why would Imus think he should have some "uber" power beyond the rights of every journalist in the US and just be able to go anywhere, record anything and stick a microphone in any patient's face?
@combustion - The kids are there every summer for three full months and at other intervals as well. The ranch is funded by 100% by charitable contributions and has been thoroughly vetted by regulatory bodies including the NY A.G's office. The purpose of the ranch is to help kids with cancer or with siblings with cancer deal with death and to help them regain their confidence after being diagnosed and treated with terminal forms of cancer. It's a worthy cause but as always there are those who seek to see something that is not there. If Imus need a ranch for himself, he could have just of just built one.
@xGORDOx Congress authorized Bush to us force. Thats a little different than telling him to use force. It was still Bush's decision to Invade. He made the call. Bush is the Decider. This is his responsibility. Congress (wrongly in my opinion) said they trust Bush. In the end if every Democrat voted against the the authorization to use force it still would have passed.
xGORDOx, Yeah, congress is to blame for believing all the horrible lies and bulls**t that was the basis for the war. It's their fault for taking the President of the United States at his f**king word. Remind us all why we're in iraq again Gordo... wmd? terror? Sadam? oil? Al Qaeda? to test cool new weapons? or maybe it's because we just love sand so f**king much.
Imus is the man. he's a tough interviewer and he doesn't take sides based solely on partisan lines. I don;t always agree with him, but I respect him for being a true independent.
i dunno, I listen to him and believe his intentions are good. if he was going to set up a charity for tax reasons, wouldn't he probably have picked a much easier and less heart-wrenching endeavor than providing terminally ill kids expensive vacations?he also apparently devoted a lot of effort to raise funds for the privately funded new hospital for soldiers with combat wounds in texas.
Imus has done a lot to help disabled soldiers. I think he is clean these days. I believe that he is trying to help injured troops. Let us see how this develops. He does not owe anyone anything.
When you enlist you think you are patriotic hot s**t. But get wounded or lose some parts. Things change then. You then become cold s**t. This is what Walter Reed is about. And you get very little disability. Certainly not 100% Only officers get 100%. A Navy Corpsman in the Vietnam war, I saw an alcoholic officer get 100% disability and a Marine rifle rat get 20% for a missing arm. Scew this war—screw all these kinds of wars. Nobody is a hero by dying in a Muslim civil war. Only when the enemy steps on your shore can you become a hero. The rest is dying for corporations.
insanegeekFeb 23, 2007
It doesn't surprise me, and it's not because of any conspiracy theory. My wife has a number of spinal injuries and she goes in for a number of outpatient treatments (injecting certain things around her spine) in a pain clinic. They will not let me back there to wait with her, not because of sterility, etc issues but because of right to privacy. Their area is basically like an ER room, basically with beds and sheets between them, I am not allowed to go back there because each patient has their right to not have their medical information known by others. A TV news team can't just randomly go through any random hospital in the US, open doors and start interviewing people they have a right/expectation of privacy. Why would Imus think he should have some "uber" power beyond the rights of every journalist in the US and just be able to go anywhere, record anything and stick a microphone in any patient's face?
lostonionFeb 23, 2007
@combustion - The kids are there every summer for three full months and at other intervals as well. The ranch is funded by 100% by charitable contributions and has been thoroughly vetted by regulatory bodies including the NY A.G's office. The purpose of the ranch is to help kids with cancer or with siblings with cancer deal with death and to help them regain their confidence after being diagnosed and treated with terminal forms of cancer. It's a worthy cause but as always there are those who seek to see something that is not there. If Imus need a ranch for himself, he could have just of just built one.
luther70Feb 23, 2007
@xGORDOx Congress authorized Bush to us force. Thats a little different than telling him to use force. It was still Bush's decision to Invade. He made the call. Bush is the Decider. This is his responsibility. Congress (wrongly in my opinion) said they trust Bush. In the end if every Democrat voted against the the authorization to use force it still would have passed.
thepeopleFeb 23, 2007
xGORDOx, Yeah, congress is to blame for believing all the horrible lies and bulls**t that was the basis for the war. It's their fault for taking the President of the United States at his f**king word. Remind us all why we're in iraq again Gordo... wmd? terror? Sadam? oil? Al Qaeda? to test cool new weapons? or maybe it's because we just love sand so f**king much.
boomboxerFeb 23, 2007
Imus is the man. he's a tough interviewer and he doesn't take sides based solely on partisan lines. I don;t always agree with him, but I respect him for being a true independent.
boomboxerFeb 23, 2007
i dunno, I listen to him and believe his intentions are good. if he was going to set up a charity for tax reasons, wouldn't he probably have picked a much easier and less heart-wrenching endeavor than providing terminally ill kids expensive vacations?he also apparently devoted a lot of effort to raise funds for the privately funded new hospital for soldiers with combat wounds in texas.
yakoffFeb 24, 2007
Imus has done a lot to help disabled soldiers. I think he is clean these days. I believe that he is trying to help injured troops. Let us see how this develops. He does not owe anyone anything.
ardieFeb 24, 2007
When you enlist you think you are patriotic hot s**t. But get wounded or lose some parts. Things change then. You then become cold s**t. This is what Walter Reed is about. And you get very little disability. Certainly not 100% Only officers get 100%. A Navy Corpsman in the Vietnam war, I saw an alcoholic officer get 100% disability and a Marine rifle rat get 20% for a missing arm. Scew this war—screw all these kinds of wars. Nobody is a hero by dying in a Muslim civil war. Only when the enemy steps on your shore can you become a hero. The rest is dying for corporations.
d00ley_Feb 24, 2007
@ccrook - Are you really that stupid?
yakoffMar 10, 2007
That being said, Ardie, these national guard troops should get good treatment, and there is no excuse for substandard conditions at Walter Reed.