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Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 10:10 AM Sep 2015

Fox Snooze is going nuts over the Pope's welcome speech.

Varney said there was no mention of the persecution of Christians when that was one of the main points in Obama's speech. Also that abortion was the most performed surgery in the country. They are also even more pissed regarding his climate change remarks. The stupid hurts.

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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
1. Fox thinks the Pope is a leftist radical
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 10:21 AM
Sep 2015

He believes in healing the sick,
feeding the hungry,
housing the homeless,
etc.

Right out of Karl Marx
or some lefty book.

Oneironaut

(5,493 posts)
8. The only religious figure who was a bigger socialist was...
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 10:31 AM
Sep 2015

*Name censored by right wing America. Capitalism and greed are great!*

liberal N proud

(60,334 posts)
2. Abortion isn't even on the list
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 10:23 AM
Sep 2015

•Number of selected procedures performed: ◦Arteriography and angiocardiography using contrast material: 2.4 million
◦Cardiac catheterizations: 1.0 million
◦Endoscopy of small intestine with or without biopsy: 1.1 million
◦Endoscopy of large intestine with or without biopsy: 499,000
◦Diagnostic ultrasound: 1.1 million
◦Balloon angioplasty of coronary artery or coronary atherectomy: 500,000
◦Hysterectomy: 498,000
◦Cesarean section:1.3 million
◦Reduction of fracture: 671,000
◦Insertion of coronary artery stent: 454,000
◦Coronary artery bypass graft: 395,000
◦Total knee replacement: 719,000
◦Total hip replacement: 332,000

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/inpatient-surgery.htm

But facts are not important when FOX is trying to effect the minds of its viewers.

davekriss

(4,616 posts)
9. I am 150% pro-choice, but...
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 10:32 AM
Sep 2015

I need to call out the fact that, contrary to your position, the number of abortions performed is high enough to make that list. In 2011, there were 730,312 abortions in the U.S.

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/

longship

(40,416 posts)
13. Loony, loony, loonies!
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 11:52 AM
Sep 2015

I shudder at this narrative.

I am no friend of religion, but what these folks are saying is fucked up.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Just switched, hoping to see a little Fox angst, but won't be able to
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 10:25 AM
Sep 2015

take it long. One of the Fox blondes just characterized the President's and Pope's entering the White House as seeing "a little bit how the sausage is made."

BTW, D&C or D&E isn't even close to being the most common, outpatient or inpatient.

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