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Linkblogs do not substantially contribute traffic to my blog that I can discover. They all go offsite, and are often accessed from my blog. It's possible to access them from the RSS according to my settings. Still, even if I were to get ads clicking on a linkblog from the RSS won't drive more people to my blog than otherwise because they leave my resources. (Note to self, do more posts, less LBs with sources I find). I explain because I sometimes borrow links from people at Twitter, and often forget who put them up. (To fellow Twitterers: If you have a link to your blog, I will point it there, but Twitter, being impermanent, cannot hold your link for people to discover from there. I only 'borrow' them to get news out to as many people as I can who might not have seen the reports and videos found by the smart people I follow at Twitter or find in search rooms.RSS Add-Me
Bush Lied About Cancer Funding. He Has Cut it Two Years in a Row.
It was one of the most obnoxious bits of political bullshit I had ever seen. (BTW, dear leader, a person who is his own best fan, must not have any others.)
So today when I happen upon a report showing that Cancer Funding had been cut for the second year in a row, imagine my shock.
Just days ago the president had assured me that his administration was committed to funding cancer research. Here's a transcript and the video of the report I watched on cancer funding tonight.
This is just truly amazing.
I wondered if any other of our bloggers or news sources had noticed what a big whopper Bush had whooped and found that not only had Think Progress already caught it, but some news (And TV news outlets at that) had noticed the lie a few days ago.
Of course, cancer research is likely to be important to most Americans as we age, so that may be a reason that mainstream has covered this decently.
Excerpt:
CHARLES GIBSON: The President today was pointing to all the money that the government has put into cancer research. Other people say, look, it’s earlier diagnosis. Others say better treatment is responsible for these numbers. Some people say better living. So, what is it?
TIMOTHY JOHNSON, ABC NEWS MEDICAL EDITOR: Well, it’s a combination of all of the above. But when the administration tries to take credit for increased spending, per se, I think they’re misleading. It is true that the total budget for the National Cancer Institute has gone up by $1.2 billion since 2001. But most of that occurred in those early years under a Clinton initiative. The budget was actually cut last year and the projected budget for this year is to be cut even further. So, I think it’s a real tragedy that we are cutting the budget for the National Cancer Institute at a time we’re on the verge of many exciting discoveries.
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