IMUS IN THE MORNING March 4, 2005

To Brian Williams and Robert Bazell: TRY SUCCEEDING, it’s not so hard to get your reporting straight…

Excerpts from Imus in the Morning, Friday, March 4, 2005 @ 7:30 a.m.
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Deirdre Imus:

The reason why there’s this controversy regarding whether routine childhood immunizations pose a mercury risk is - it’s a matter of the CDC, the Center for Disease Control and the IOM, the Institute of Medicine, not being forthright with the public with information, because there’s been many, many studies done by many doctors who are now well known – Dr. Boyd Haley, Dr. Andy Wakefield, and many others, that have done studies, extensive studies to find the links between the Thimerosal in vaccines and autism.

In fact, if you look at a chart with the characteristics of what mercury poisoning is and the characteristics of autism they’re practically identical.
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Don Imus:

That complete Senate Bill 3 that Rick Santorum and Bill Frist and a bunch of these other people are trying to jam through the Senate, and I suppose it will go to the House, which will indemnify pharmaceutical companies from being sued by parents whose kids are affected in one way or another with Thimerosal in these vaccines, and part of the bill, I’m trying to read it, if I understood it correctly, would allow pharmaceutical companies to keep Thimerosal in vaccines and would prevent states, as California and Iowa have done, from passing legislation to ban Thimerosal from vaccines.

Deirdre Imus:

It’s criminal and its absolutely disgraceful…
It’s SHAME ON SENATOR BILL FRIST and RICK SANTORUM, your buddy.

Don Imus: He’s not my buddy

Deirdre Imus: Have him on and get to the bottom of this.

Don Imus: We’re trying to get ahold of him now.

Deirdre Imus:

In terms of emails, they've downloaded the entire S. 3 bill and the bottom line with a part of it is that legislation for soldiers’ rights to greater life insurance and health benefits…they piggybacked the liability protection for pharmaceutical companies… this is outrageous!… and parents have every right, all these parents, that have an autistic child – THIS IS A HUGE SLAP IN THE FACE TO THEM where ‘too bad for you, we’re not going to take care of you, we’re going to support the pharmaceutical companies’ ---- ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL!!!

…this has been going on for years, the pharmaceutical companies have over 600 lobbyists knocking on the doors down there constantly handing them $45million this presidential [cycle] --…IT’S DISGRACEFUL!!!

I want to comment too about what that Doc Clark said, he’s absolutely right about Robert Bazell, who’s supposedly an expert on this, reporting that there’s no proof because the IOM stated there’s no causal link, but what he failed to tell all, everyone on the TV, at the same time, in the same breath, if he had all his facts, which he should have, is that the CDC paid for the report and instructed the IOM to conclude that there’s no connection regardless of all the evidence to the contrary, that that is probably more important than what he said before that…

It’s disgraceful…………..