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Fox News Pro-Tobacco "Libertarian" Columnist Secretly Paid by Tobacco Company |
Of course he also repeats the "There's no global warming" *****.
How much money did he get from the Petroleum Institute?
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/FoxNews.com_columnist_was_on_big_tobacco_0126.html
FoxNews.com columnist was on big tobacco payroll
01/26/2006 @ 3:41 pm
Filed by RAW STORY
A FoxNews.com columnist who repeatedly attacked scientists for linking
smoking to disease was on the payroll of big tobacco, according to The
New Republic.
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Excerpts from the New Republic's piece follow:
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On March 9, 2001, he wrote a column for the website headlined
"secondhand smokescreen." The piece attacked a study by researcher
Stephen Hecht, who found that women living with smokers had higher
levels of chemicals associated with risk of lung cancer. "If spin were
science, Hecht would win a Nobel Prize," Milloy wrote. For good
measure, he heaped scorn on a 1993 Environmental Protection Agency
report that also linked health risks and secondhand smoke. Later that
spring, he authored another smoking-related piece for FoxNews.com.
....You might chalk it up to Milloy's contrarian nature. Or to his
libertarian tendencies. Except, all the while, he was on the payroll
of big tobacco. According to Lisa Gonzalez, manager of external
communications for Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris, Milloy
was under contract there through the end of last year. "In 2000 and
2001, some of the work he did was to monitor studies, and then we
would distribute this information within to our different companies,"
Gonzalez said. Although she couldn't comment on fees paid to Milloy, a
January 2001 Philip Morris budget report lists Milloy as a consultant
and shows that he was budgeted for $92,500 in fees and expenses in
both 2000 and 2001. Asked about Milloy's tobacco ties, Paul Schur,
director of media relations for Fox News, said, "Fox News is unaware
of Milloy's connection with Philip Morris. Any affiliation he had
should have been disclosed." Milloy could not be reached for comment.
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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec (aka aka Yang's little poltregeist *****)
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -2238 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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"Now, did I want to go? Hell no."
-duke (duckgumbo@cox.net), aka PedophilEarl J Weber, 63
year old mateless, heirless biological failure
of Afton Oaks Apartment, Baton Rouge, on why
a Neocon chickenhawk like him pussied out of
the Vietnam War.
Contact duke's priest and ask
him why duke is such a racist:
http://www.stpatrickbr.org/
Father Gerard "Jerry" Martin
stpatrickbr<AT>bellsouth<DOT>net
Saint Patrick Catholic Church
12424 Brogdon Lane
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816
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