I have been very concerned about the far right wing media and how it is playing with fire, pandering to a fringe element and inciting fear and hatred in people who are becoming a mob that could become dangerous. Here NPR reports just one of many examples of this:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113282766&sc=emaf

Secret Service Probing ‘Should Obama Be Killed’ Poll

"The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, officials said Monday.

The poll, posted Saturday on Facebook, was taken off the popular social-networking site quickly after company officials were alerted to its existence.

"We are aware of it and we will take the appropriate investigative steps," said Darrin Blackford, a Secret Service spokesman. "We take of these things seriously."

The poll asked respondents "Should Obama be killed?" The choices: No, Maybe, Yes and Yes if he cuts my health care.

The question was not created by Facebook, but by an independent person using an add-on application that has been suspended from the site.

"The third-party application that enabled an individual user to create the offensive poll was brought to our attention this morning," said Barry Schnitt, Facebook’s spokesman for policy.

Because the application was disabled, the responses to the nonscientific polls are not available.

"We’re working with the U.S. Secret Service, but they’ll need to provide any details of their investigation," Schnitt said. "

Healthcare Reform matters to me too. Here is proof of what a mess our healthcare system is:

"Over the weekend, thousands of Texans attended what is being called the “largest free clinic ever held in the United States” to get health care they otherwise could not afford. ABC-13, a local Houston station, reported that the event showed that there is an “epidemic” of people without proper health coverage in Texas:

It’s an epidemic here in Texas and Harris County — people without health insurance. On Saturday, the uninsured lined up to get their needs met.

More than 2,000 people came to Reliant Center to see doctors for free. Many of the people we talked to can’t afford health insurance, especially in the rough economy. Some say it shows the need for health care reform.

Numerous patients described their experience with the broken U.S. health care system to ABC-13:

“My foot was turned upside down,” said patient Lillian Beverly. Beverly has had trouble walking since she took a bad fall three months ago. “I really don’t have the money to keep going to doctors and doctors,” she said.

Kevin Braggs is worried about his diabetes. “I’ve been without insurance for six months,” said Braggs.

And Vicki Robinson wants to keep her son’s asthma under control, but she says it’s difficult. “My husband’s lost his job. We’ve gone through our savings,” said Robinson.

And nine-year-old Kempton knows it. “We can’t afford medicine,” he said.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, one of the physicians who worked at the clinic this weekend, comparedwhat he saw there to the post-Katrina crisis:

DR. OZ: We had no idea the overwhelming response we would have, the cries for help from the city of Houston and the state of Texas. … This is the largest health mobilization in Houston since Katrina. So a national disaster which brought out this kind of response is now paralleled by a national disaster, because this is just an average day in Houston, and there are thousands of people who need help.

Although this free clinic was especially needed in Texas, which currently has the largest uninsured population in the country, there have been similar events all over the country.

Last month, more than 1,300 patients showed up during a single weekend at a free dental clinic held in Parkersburg, West Virginia. A few days later, nearly 1500 people attended every day of an eight-day free clinic Remote Area Medical set up in Los Angeles. Former Cigna insurance executive and industry whistleblower Wendell Potter credits his 2007 visit to a Remote Area Medical clinic as opening his eyes to the health care crisis in the United States, and says it was instrumental in causing him to leave the industry and join the fight for universal health care." 

Have any of you heard about a piece on one of those internet sites asking people if they think President Obama should be killed? Are there no "moderators" on these sites? It wasn’t my space but its a popular one whose name I can’t remember now. It bothers me because all kids today want access to these web sites, and parents, for the most part, are caving and letting them set up a page. I hope this person is caught and faces the full penalty  for threatening a president, and I call this topic a criminal threat. What is wrong with people today? It seems like the patients are running the institution. And that televangelist Bill Keller, starting a drive to get the president to prove he is a citizen. Well I have a deal for Mr. Keller, if President Obama shows a legitimate American birth certificate, you have to leave the country, permanently. Keller won’t agree, because he is too busy fleecing the guilable flock of his. There is a reason for the separation of church and state, and if all these right wing churches don’t watch out, they may lose all the priveleges and tax exemption they receive from this government. I think the web was Face Page. Their site should be pulled until some guide lines are placed on the internet.