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  • We have to do better than Trump vs. Biden — they’re both just TERRIBLE

    08/25/2023 2:43:13 PM PDT · by thegagline · 119 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 08/25/2023 | John Stossel
    The betting odds say the next election will likely be a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. It’s odd since polls show most Americans don’t like either man. Trump is simply mean. He humiliates people, taking pleasure in mocking them publicly. In his real-estate work, he’s famous for not paying little people who work for him. He stiffed a cabinet-builder, a dishwasher, and a plumber. *** Trump lies even about unimportant things, like the crowd at his inauguration, ratings for his TV show, even claiming he won a nonexistent “Man of the Year” award. And of course, he lies...
  • Organic BS-The science just doesn't add up.

    05/18/2022 6:47:44 AM PDT · by SJackson · 36 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | May 18, 2022 | John Stossel
    As a result, poor parents feel guilty if"/>Frontpage Mag"Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" @Horowitz39, David HorowitzThe PointAuthorsDavid HorowitzStoreWho We AreDH TV Mailing List DonateOrganic BSThe science just doesn't add up.Wed May 18, 2022John Stossel Activists have convinced Americans that "organic" food is better — healthier, better-tasting, life-extending. As a result, poor parents feel guilty if they can't afford to pay $7 for organic eggs. This misinformation is spread by people like Alexis Baden-Mayer, political director of the Organic Consumers Association. She says organic food is clearly better: "The nutrition is a huge difference." But it...
  • Thanksgiving Lessons: What the Experience of the Pilgrims Taught Us About Socialism vs. Private Property

    11/24/2022 9:41:27 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    Townhall ^ | 11/24/2022 | John Stossel
    Thursday, if you eat a nice meal, thank the Pilgrims. They made Thanksgiving possible. They left the Old World to escape religious persecution. They imagined a new society where everyone worked together and shared everything. In other words, they dreamed of socialism. Socialism then almost killed them. As I explain in my weekly video, the Pilgrims attempted collective farming. The whole community decided when and how much to plant, when to harvest and who would do the work.Gov. William Bradford wrote in his diary that he thought that taking away property and bringing it into a commonwealth would make the...
  • Inconvenient Facts(search acting weird)

    11/02/2022 10:39:59 AM PDT · by rktman · 17 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 11/2/2022 | John Stossel
    Electric cars sales are up 66% this year. President Joe Biden promotes them, saying things like, "The great American road trip is going to be fully electrified" and, "There's no turning back." To make sure we have no choice in the matter, some left-leaning states have moved to ban gas-powered cars altogether. California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order banning them by 2035. Oregon, Massachusetts and New York copied California. Washington state's politicians said they'd make it happen even faster, by 2030. Thirty countries also say they'll phase out gas-powered cars. But this is just dumb. It will not...
  • John Stossel rips Obama’s ignorant Netflix series, “The G Word"

    10/18/2022 4:25:28 PM PDT · by RandFan · 10 replies
    twitter ^ | Oct 18 | Stossel
    @JohnStossel I never thought I’d make a video debunking a TV series. But President Obama’s ignorant Netflix series, “The G Word," deserves debunking. If you don’t want to waste 3 hours watching Obama promote big government, watch this instead:
  • Change the Constitution? Both Left and Right Want More Amendments to the Constitution

    07/06/2022 9:55:53 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 68 replies
    Townhall ^ | 07/06/2022 | John Stossel
    This Fourth of July, watching people fight over what the Constitution means, I ask people, if you could change the Constitution, what would you change?"The forefathers knew what they were doing," said one woman.But the Constitution originally accepted slavery. It's good that we can amend it.So what should we change?"Add a balanced budget amendment," suggests Glenn Beck.David Boaz of the Cato Institute recommends 18-year terms for the Supreme Court. "Maybe confirmation fights would be less bitter and partisan."Others suggest term limits for Congress. Stossel TV's Mike Ricci takes the idea further. "If your father, mother, siblings, uncle, cousins were elected...
  • Fact-Blockers

    12/01/2021 3:18:37 AM PST · by Kaslin · 5 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 1, 2021 | John Stossel
    I've reported how Facebook censors me. Now I've learned that they also censor environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, statistician Bjorn Lomborg and former New York Times columnist John Tierney. Facebook's "fact-checkers" claim we spread "misinformation." In my new video, Tierney argues that the "people guilty of spreading misinformation are Facebook and its fact-checkers." He's right. Facebook doesn't do its censoring alone. It partners with groups approved by something called the Poynter Institute, a group that claims "a commitment to nonpartisanship." But Poynter isn't nonpartisan. It promotes progressive jargon like "decolonize the media," and it praises left-leaning journalists. Once they even proposed blacklisting...
  • Facebook Smeared Me With Its ‘Fact-Checking.’ Now, I’m Suing the Tech Giant.

    10/02/2021 5:45:38 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 39 replies
    The Daily Signal ^ | September 29, 2021 | John Stossel
    I just sued Facebook. I didn’t want to sue. I hate lawsuits. I tried for a year to reach someone at Facebook to fix things, but Facebook wouldn’t. Here’s the problem: Facebook uses “independent fact-checkers” to try to reduce fake news on its site. That’s a noble goal. Unfortunately, at least one Facebook “fact-checker” is a climate-alarmist group that cleverly uses its Facebook connections to stop debate. Facebook is a private company. It has every right to cut me off. But Facebook does not have the right to just lie about me, yet that’s exactly what Facebook and its “fact-checker”...
  • John Stossel Sues Facebook for Defamation Over Fact-Check

    09/23/2021 4:05:25 PM PDT · by RandFan · 31 replies
    Yahoo! ^ | Sep 23 | Lindsey Ellefson
    Veteran journalist John Stossel sued Facebook on Wednesday for a fact-check that was added to a post he made about California’s 2020 forest fires. “This case presents a simple question: do Facebook and its vendors defame a user who posts factually accurate content, when they publicly announce that the content failed a ‘fact-check’ and is ‘partly false,’ and by attributing to the user a false claim that he never made? The answer, of course, is yes,” says the complaint, filed in a California federal court. Representatives for Facebook did not immediately return a request for comment on the lawsuit.
  • John Stossel: The data are clear: Vaccines WORK

    09/03/2021 4:18:22 PM PDT · by RandFan · 73 replies
    twitter ^ | Sep 3 | Stossel
    @JohnStossel The data are clear: Vaccines WORK. I got mine, and I hope others get theirs. But should vaccines be mandated? No. That’s tyranny. Video....[5 mins]
  • Crowder Calls Out Censorship

    04/14/2021 4:07:44 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 12 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | April 14, 2021 | John Stossel
    The most viewed conservative commentator on YouTube is Steven Crowder with his channel, Louder with Crowder. His fans love his politically incorrect jokes. He also sets up a table at college campuses, invites people to debate, and airs the debate unedited. One such video, titled, "There Are Two Genders: Change My Mind," has been viewed 40 million times. Students don't change Crowder's mind, but he has a fair conversation. Crowder won't change my mind, either -- (I believe gender can be on a spectrum) but in my new video, Crowder says he was influenced by me. Louder With Crowder, he...
  • Investment Con

    12/09/2020 4:10:39 AM PST · by Kaslin · 9 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 9, 2020 | John Stossel
    Want to make money and help the world, too? Wall Street says you can! If you invest in "socially responsible" funds, say big investment funds like BlackRock, Parnassus, TIAA-CREF, etc., then they'll do good things for the world, and your retirement funds will grow. These funds obsess about what they call Environmental, Social and Governance factors. For example, Parnassus says it picks investments based on "their environmental impact, how they treat their employees, the quality of their relationships with local communities." People believe. More than $100 billion poured in just in the first half of this year. But I won't...
  • Bet the Election

    10/21/2020 3:26:13 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 28 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 21, 2020 | John Stossel
    Donald Trump will probably lose the election. As I write, The Economist says he has only an 8 percent chance of winning. Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight, which came closest to predicting Trump's win in 2016 and has the best track record among modelers, gives Trump just a 12 percent chance. But people who "put money where their mouths are" give Trump a better chance: 37 percent. That's according to roughly that often., the website I created with Maxim Lott. It tracks multiple betting sites around the world. Though 61 to 37 percent seems like a giant lead for Joe Biden, 37...
  • Progressive Policies Wreck Everything

    07/22/2020 4:01:56 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 5 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | July 22, 2020 | John Stossel
    I laughed when I saw The Washington Post headline: "Minneapolis had progressive policies, but its economy still left black families behind." The media are so clueless. Instead of "but," the headline should have said, "therefore," or "so, obviously." Of course, progressive policies failed! They almost always do. "If you wanted a poster child for the progressive movement, it would be Minneapolis," says Republican Minnesota Senate candidate Jason Lewis in my new video. "This is the same city council that voted to abolish the police department." The council, which has no Republicans, spends taxpayer money on most every progressive idea. They...
  • Let People Try Gelsolin!

    04/29/2020 8:34:20 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 11 replies
    Townhall .com ^ | April 29, 2020 | John Stossel
    We need new drugs to fight COVID-19 and other diseases. But our government's approval process makes that too hard. This year's pandemic got regulators to say they'll speed the approval process. The FDA adopted Emergency Use Authorization to speed up approval of some tests, medical equipment and ventilators. But that's not enough. I know about the FDA's rules because my older brother, Dr. Thomas Stossel, discovered something that might save a lot of lives. Doing medical research at Harvard, he found a protein in our blood that helps reduce excess inflammation. He named the protein gelsolin. Some inflammation is useful....
  • John Stossel on Coronavirus Overreach

    04/21/2020 10:34:20 AM PDT · by shoptalk · 9 replies
    YouTube ^ | April 21, 2020 | John Stossel
    Governments pass ever-more restrictive rules in the name of saving us. How many of these rules are helpful? In Encinitas, California, police gave $1000 tickets to people inside cars - watching the sunset. Surfers were arrested, despite being far from anyone. Such excessive restrictions may even do harm, by preventing people from getting exercise. Michigan's governor condescended to allow big stores to stay open, but told them they must not sell "carpet, flooring, furniture, garden centers, plant nurseries, or paint.” The stores had to rope off those aisles. These rules are arbitrary, and excessive.
  • "Booing" of Hillary Clinton Electronically Transformed into "Applause" for TV Viewers!

    09/06/2002 4:37:40 PM PDT · by vannrox · 108 replies · 2,021+ views
    Media Research Center - Cyber ALERT! (Media Bias; Pro-Liberal & Pro-Facist) ^ | Friday August 30, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 133) | Editorial Staff
    A holiday weekend video treat: How cable music channel VH1 turned booing of Senator Hillary Clinton into cheering. Senator Clinton was booed when she walked on stage last October at a rock concert in Madison Square Garden to benefit 9/11 victims. It was shown live by VH1 but, as ABC's John Stossel illustrated in a July 20/20 special on media distortions, when the Viacom-owned cable channel replayed it sound technicians replaced the booing with cheering and applause. And that version is the permanent record VH1 put onto its DVD of the event. During his July 12 20/20 look at media...
  • Domestic and Foreign Wars

    10/09/2019 7:55:10 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 4 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 9, 2019 | John Stossel
    Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is controversial within her party. She says the U.S. should talk to its enemies. She was criticized for meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. But Democrats were supposed to be the anti-war party, I say to her in my newest video. "They're heavily influenced by a foreign policy establishment ... whose whole power base is built around continuing this status quo," Gabbard tells me. "So much so, to the point where when I'm calling for an end to these wasteful wars, they're saying, 'Well, gosh, Tulsi, why are you such an isolationist?' As though...
  • Stossel: Debating a Hoaxed Journal Editor

    03/19/2019 10:17:07 AM PDT · by OddLane · 7 replies
    Reason Magazine ^ | 3/19/19 | John Stossel
    The editor of a journal that fell for a hoax defends his field.
  • Stossel: Academic Hoax

    03/05/2019 10:33:12 PM PST · by OddLane · 15 replies
    Reason Magazine ^ | 3/5/19 | John Stossel
    Journals applaud seven outrageously fake papers.