Now that rightwing media has arguably caused more Americans to die than has tobacco, it's time to consider a strategy like we used with cigarettes to balance their deadly lies and misinformation.

It happened three times yesterday, and I only watched or half-watched a few hours of TV news. It happens every day, it seems. Somebody wonders out loud (yesterday's most prominent was Alex Witt with Dr. Anthony Fauci) why over 60 million Americans who're eligible to be vaccinated are still refusing — including hospital workers in some parts of the country.

Everybody treats it like it's a confounding question with no easy answer. The actual answer, though, is pretty straightforward: the psychopaths running the rightwing media ecosystem dominated by Fox "News" and social media, and echoed by 1500 radio stations across the country, have decided people dying and being disabled is both profitable and politically advantageous to them.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News.

— The media is largely ignoring or poo-poohing Trump's claim that Republicans won't show up to vote in 2022 and 2024 unless the party orients itself totally around "election integrity"
— Black American flags are appearing all over the country
— The Manchin/Sinema are totally in the pockets of the fossil fuel and big Pharma
— Joe Manchin wants climate change provisions stripped out of President Biden's Build Back Better bill, when the US is on pace to shatter all-time historic records for how expensive our natural disasters have become
— Captain Kirk (William Shatner) reports back from his trip to outer space how fragile our planet is and how important it is that we act now to save the atmosphere from the fossil fuel industry's pollution
— Sam Alito has given a speech complaining that Democrats in Congress are responsible for the nation's and the Supreme Court's political crises.
— John Nichols, has pointed out that competent, high-quality people would have nothing to do with Trump or his administration
— Republicans in the Texas legislature passed a bill that they thought would make sure no white child would ever have to learn the actual racial history of America
— The media keeps getting it wrong, saying that "Democrats are divided
— Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter famously broke up Ma Bell, time to break up Amazon.
— The Women's Body Police are at it again, sending an Oklahoma woman to prison for four years for "manslaughter" after she miscarried.
— Americans are rejecting the, "Do you want fries with that?" low-wage economy.
— In Science News, Bumblebees have now disappeared from eight states.
— In good news, the vaccine mandates are working

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Rightwing Media Causes Death When "Used As Directed"" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Death is Their Election Strategy " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Short-term and Long-term Rates of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection" by Destin Groff, Ashley Sun, Anna E. Ssentongo, et al.

Article: "Tobacco-Related Mortality" by CDC.

Article: "The Psychopathic CEO" by Jack McCullough.

Article: ""I Sleep Well at Night": Suzanne Scott on Running Fox News" by Marisa Guthrie.

Article: "Fox News host uses Colin Powell's death to launch anti-vax rant: "Fully-vaccinated are dying of Covid." by David Edwards.

Tweet: "Folks need to know this—#ColinPowell had multiple myeloma—a cancer of plasma cells that **makes antibodies**. Thus, vaccines are weaker in myeloma patients because we kill the cells that make antibodies with our myeloma treatments. Please vax to protect others." (thread) by Eric Feigl-Ding.

Article: "United States Coronavirus Cases:" by Worldometer.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch receives dose of Covid vaccine in UK" by Archie Bland.

Article: "COVID Cases, Deaths Notably Worse In Red States Than Blue States: Report" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Fox News tries to keep Trump fans satisfied, but at what cost?" by Stephen Battaglio, Meg James.

Bible: "1 Timothy 6:10: For the love of money is the root of all evil".

Article: "What the 2020 electorate looks like by party, race and ethnicity, age, education and religion" by John Gramlich.

Article: "Watergate: New Laws" by nwatergatescandal.

Article: "Jimmy Carter calls for return to publicly financed elections" by Marilyn W. Thompson.

Video: Why Is Mafia Merrick Garland Protecting Trump? (w/ Sarah Kendzior).

Tweet: "Biden and Schumer need to pack the $3.5 trillion bill with another few hundred billion in goodies just and specifically for WV and AZ, do a big PR rollout of them, and then bring it to the floor for a vote this week. Dare those sellouts to vote against their own states." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "'It's scary!' Fox News hosts react in terror after 'American way' is removed from Superman's motto " by David Edwards.

Article: "Wealth of world's billionaires rose $5 trillion amid pandemic, Forbes list finds" by Catherine Thorbecke.

Article: "U.S. Billionaires Wealth Surged by 70%, or $2.1 Trilion, During Pandemic; They Are Now Worth a Combined $5 Trillion" by Americans for Tax Fairness, Institute for Policy Studies.

Article: "In trial over Arbery death, racial reckoning looms large" by Russ Bynum, Aaron Morrison.

Article: "Colin Powell, former US secretary of state, dies at 84 of Covid complications" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "Ebola virus disease" by WHO.

Tweet: "Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days - now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Bari Weiss" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families." - Maggie Thatcher.

Article: "Joe Rogan Suggested Getting Vaccinated Then Getting Covid-19 For More Protection" by fundingnewsasia.

Article: "T4 Program" by Britannica.

Article: "How to listen to The Flamethrowers, a new podcast by Justin Ling" by CBC Podcasts.

Article: "Thalidomide" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Latest on pandemic, vaccines, variants, herd immunity, etc.
- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist / Adjunct Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists

Article: "How Fox News viewers are less likely to get vaccinated" by Harry Enten.

Article: "Many Americans see post-COVID life as farther away" by Axios/Ipsos.

Article: "Signs of encouragement as US sees drop in Covid cases and hospitalizations" by Eric Berger.

Article: "United States Coronavirus Cases" by Worldometers.

Article: "Who Is Eligible for a COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shot?" by CDC.

Article: "Herd immunity and COVID-19 (coronavirus): What you need to know" by Mayo Clinic.

Article: "Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19" by Adam Hampshire, William Trender, Samuel R Chamberlain, Amy E. Jolly, Jon E. Grant, Fiona Patrick et al.

Article: "Lead exposure may contribute to lower IQ" by Rachel Huang.

Article: "WHO monitoring new coronavirus variant named Mu" by Ian Sample.

Article: "Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations" by Our World in Data.

Article: "How COVID-19 Variants Could Outsmart Vaccines" by Molly Glick.

Article: "Oregon 'herd immunity' against COVID-19 delta variant should arrive in late December, OHSU forecasts" by Douglas Perry.

Article: "When Will the Pandemic End? Here's Scientists Six Month Outlook on COVID-19".

Article: "The debilitating effects of long Covid have just begun to hit economies" by Torsten Bell.

Article: "Donald Trump Is Not on Forbes' 400 Richest Americans List for the First Time in 25 Years" by Virginia Chamlee.

Documentary: Outfoxed.

Article: "Fox News won a court case by 'persuasively' arguing that no 'reasonable viewer' takes Tucker Carlson seriously" by Sonam Sheth.

Article: "Head of Koch-tied group urges Sinema to 'stay strong' as she opposes tax hikes on rich" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Big Pharma's Reward" by Andrew Perez.

Article: "America's Debt Bubble Is About To Hit 15 Trillion - How Long Before It Pops?" by Michael Snyder.

Article: "CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,322% since 1978" by Lawrence Mishel and Jori Kandra.

Article: "Inflation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nixon shock" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The 1973 Arab Oil Embargo: The Old Rules No Longer Apply" by Greg Myre.

Article: "Fed Chief Sets Monetary Policy By Seat-of-the-Pants Approach" by David Wessel.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Watchdog Suggests Medicare Advantage Customers Underserved At End Of Life" by KHN.

Article: "Lisa Murkowski" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gold standard" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joe Biden's Nixon moment: A policy agenda that could change history — and the media yawns" by Matthew Rozsa.

Article: "U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged by 70 Percent, or $2.1 Trillion, During Pandemic. They're Now Worth a Combined $5 Trillion." by Chuck Collins.

Article: "As Manchin Blocks Climate Plan, His State Can't Hold Back Floods" by Christopher Flavelle.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene removed from House committee assignments" by Grace Segers.

Quote: "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Lord Acton.

Article: "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act", 2003 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medicare - Statistics & Facts" by Matej Mikulic.

Article: "Medicare Advantage: Where Are the Audits?" by Duane Abbey.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Jim Justice" (WV governor) by Wikipedia.

Case: "Shelby County v. Holder", 2013.

Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.

Article: "Jim Jeffords" by Wikipedia.

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