11/17/09 - AC360
taurenova is once again overcome with fatigue so I am covering AC360 tonight. I actually have no idea what happened today (because Shep is on vacay and I am awful and do not trust his fill-ins) so it'll be interesting.
1) Digging Deeper with the new mammogram guidelines. (And a checked shirt come on really Anderson, stop wearing these things.) People came up to Andy on the street "angry and confused." People are worried insurance companies will use it to stop covering them lol healthcare reform anyone?.
Dr. Kopans from the Dept. of Radiology at Harvard Med. argues for mammograms. Dr. Gregory was on the research panel that gave the new recommendations, she says they're not recommending against mammograms but routine mammograms and doctors-patients should decide together.
Dr. Kopans says the problem is no one on the task force has any experience with mammography. Anderson asks Dr. Gregory about that. She rather avoids that part of the question. -- Adds later that they do not recommend to insurance companies, Dr. Kopans says this is going to hurt poor women especially seriously guys healthcare reform?.
So, basically, doctors say they want to continue as usual, task force says the benefit of routine screening isn't that good.
2) "Killings At the Canal: The Army Tapes" -- Soldiers who have been convicted for murder, a special segment over four nights. CNN got lots and lots of exclusive tape of interrogations, Abbie Boudreau reports.
They talk to Joshua Hartson, former Private first class, who was there but not prosecuted. He says that the actions of the three people convicted were justified. The soldiers captured some Iraqi men near some weapons. The rules were to take the men to the detainee facility. They didn't, killed them instead -- Hartson says they were ordered because if the men took them to the center they would just be released.
Apparently the army tried to cover it up.
ETA Opinions on it are all over the place, as the panel shows. David Bellavia, US Staff Sergeant, who fought in a bad battle and wrote a memoir later. Scott Silliman (...I don't recall it being prounced as it is spelled), a law expert. Abbie Bourdreau at the desk for more context. Discussing detainee policy.
3) Erica's Bulletin: More info on the shootings from Fort Hood, President Obama in China, people in America are having more trouble feeding themselves, "unfriend" is the word of the year from Oxford.
E: "If you talk to the kids these days, typically the word used is defriend."
A: "Really? I don't talk to the kids."
and (Erica's paraphrased a bit)
A: "I don't have a friend's list. Because I don't have friends."
~E: *shakes head* "Aw that's not true."
4) Palin interview with Barbara Walters. "Walter peppered her with foreign policy questions" gives me the impression Anderson was not impressed with her input on Israel/Palestinian, Afghanistan, or Barack Obama's performance. Palin is not impressed with it, as expected.
A: "It came as a media blitz for her new book Going Rogue in case you haven't heard about it."
Tom Foreman fact-checks. "This apparent example is lighting up the blogs" -- Palin saying it was not a family decision to run for VP now, in September she said she got the kids to vote on it. Politifact.com (which has won Pulitzer recognition y'all) is like lol no. Palin says Couric was nicer to Joey than she was to her.
We have Donna Brazil and Bill Bennet here to talk for some reason. Bill says there's score settling, it's odd. Donna says the truthiness of the book does not matter. She points out that there was a ghostwriter and we don't know how much to blame Palin for.
Palin says the Newsweek photo of her in shorts and hose (I think Running Week or Runner's World profiled her) was sexist.
Etc etc.
5) More about Major Hasan's possible motvies. Warning signs, apparently he made claims of warm crimes against people he met through his job as a psychologist. Eugene Fidell, Military Attorney to discuss. Lots of legal stuff.
6) Erica's Bulletin: Guilty plea in Elizabeth Smart kidnapping from the wife. Same-sex marriage in Argentina, first in Latin American. College students living in co-ed dorms more likely to drink alcohol, have sex (SHOCKING. SHOCKING.). Gaddafi was in Italy and 200 women showed up to ... flirt? They got talked to about Islam.
7) The Shot is two women boarding a bus, two goats follow them in. They're trying to get them off AND THE BEAR FALLING ON THE TRAMPOLINE CLIP SHEP ALWAYS USES with the standard "bear is not hurt" disclaimer.
Anderson is sad that they do not have Who the hell is Wolf? standing by.
Anderson, smiley: "By the way I do know that I have many friends on Facebook, I just don't have friends in real life."
Erica: "Wow ... Dr. Phil is up next."
Someone gets "Who the hell is Wolf?" queued up to end the show.
1) Digging Deeper with the new mammogram guidelines. (And a checked shirt come on really Anderson, stop wearing these things.) People came up to Andy on the street "angry and confused." People are worried insurance companies will use it to stop covering them lol healthcare reform anyone?.
Dr. Kopans from the Dept. of Radiology at Harvard Med. argues for mammograms. Dr. Gregory was on the research panel that gave the new recommendations, she says they're not recommending against mammograms but routine mammograms and doctors-patients should decide together.
Dr. Kopans says the problem is no one on the task force has any experience with mammography. Anderson asks Dr. Gregory about that. She rather avoids that part of the question. -- Adds later that they do not recommend to insurance companies, Dr. Kopans says this is going to hurt poor women especially seriously guys healthcare reform?.
So, basically, doctors say they want to continue as usual, task force says the benefit of routine screening isn't that good.
2) "Killings At the Canal: The Army Tapes" -- Soldiers who have been convicted for murder, a special segment over four nights. CNN got lots and lots of exclusive tape of interrogations, Abbie Boudreau reports.
They talk to Joshua Hartson, former Private first class, who was there but not prosecuted. He says that the actions of the three people convicted were justified. The soldiers captured some Iraqi men near some weapons. The rules were to take the men to the detainee facility. They didn't, killed them instead -- Hartson says they were ordered because if the men took them to the center they would just be released.
Apparently the army tried to cover it up.
ETA Opinions on it are all over the place, as the panel shows. David Bellavia, US Staff Sergeant, who fought in a bad battle and wrote a memoir later. Scott Silliman (...I don't recall it being prounced as it is spelled), a law expert. Abbie Bourdreau at the desk for more context. Discussing detainee policy.
3) Erica's Bulletin: More info on the shootings from Fort Hood, President Obama in China, people in America are having more trouble feeding themselves, "unfriend" is the word of the year from Oxford.
E: "If you talk to the kids these days, typically the word used is defriend."
A: "Really? I don't talk to the kids."
and (Erica's paraphrased a bit)
A: "I don't have a friend's list. Because I don't have friends."
~E: *shakes head* "Aw that's not true."
4) Palin interview with Barbara Walters. "Walter peppered her with foreign policy questions" gives me the impression Anderson was not impressed with her input on Israel/Palestinian, Afghanistan, or Barack Obama's performance. Palin is not impressed with it, as expected.
A: "It came as a media blitz for her new book Going Rogue in case you haven't heard about it."
Tom Foreman fact-checks. "This apparent example is lighting up the blogs" -- Palin saying it was not a family decision to run for VP now, in September she said she got the kids to vote on it. Politifact.com (which has won Pulitzer recognition y'all) is like lol no. Palin says Couric was nicer to Joey than she was to her.
We have Donna Brazil and Bill Bennet here to talk for some reason. Bill says there's score settling, it's odd. Donna says the truthiness of the book does not matter. She points out that there was a ghostwriter and we don't know how much to blame Palin for.
Palin says the Newsweek photo of her in shorts and hose (I think Running Week or Runner's World profiled her) was sexist.
Etc etc.
5) More about Major Hasan's possible motvies. Warning signs, apparently he made claims of warm crimes against people he met through his job as a psychologist. Eugene Fidell, Military Attorney to discuss. Lots of legal stuff.
6) Erica's Bulletin: Guilty plea in Elizabeth Smart kidnapping from the wife. Same-sex marriage in Argentina, first in Latin American. College students living in co-ed dorms more likely to drink alcohol, have sex (SHOCKING. SHOCKING.). Gaddafi was in Italy and 200 women showed up to ... flirt? They got talked to about Islam.
7) The Shot is two women boarding a bus, two goats follow them in. They're trying to get them off AND THE BEAR FALLING ON THE TRAMPOLINE CLIP SHEP ALWAYS USES with the standard "bear is not hurt" disclaimer.
Anderson is sad that they do not have Who the hell is Wolf? standing by.
Anderson, smiley: "By the way I do know that I have many friends on Facebook, I just don't have friends in real life."
Erica: "Wow ... Dr. Phil is up next."
Someone gets "Who the hell is Wolf?" queued up to end the show.