Media

Tucker Carlson, Fear, and Loathing in the United States
ecthompsonmd August 26, 2023

Have we simply gone mad? Are we merely in some weird sci-fi movie in which everybody has lost their marbles?  On the one hand, you could easily say that these were all isolated incidents. They had nothing to do with each other. America is a big place. We have over 330 million people in the United States. Yet all of these incidents, and more, are related. These men—all three of the shooters were men—were primed and ready. They knew exactly what they were doing. They’ve been repeatedly told that “everyone is out to get them.” Elites are stealing their power. Immigrants

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Without Limbaugh, There is no Trump
ecthompsonmd March 10, 2021

It was about 14 or 15 years ago when I wandered into the studios of WPEK in Asheville. I wanted to talk about starting my own radio show. I had written an extremely unsuccessful book—A Letter to America, Is Bush Leading Us in the Right Direction?—and my “agent” said that I needed a platform like radio. The station manager said sure, I can have airtime. Bingo, I was on the air. In order to learn the business of talking into a microphone, I decided to study Rush Limbaugh. He had the largest audience. He had dedicated listeners. He was the King

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News Update – Hacked emails explained, Physician’s story, Sinclair
ecthompsonmd April 3, 2018

Sinclair is a huge news group that appears to be getting bigger. From Vox: This month, the 193 local TV affiliates owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group began running a series of promotional segments, warning of a scourge of “fake news” promoted by “members of the media [who] use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control ‘exactly what people think.’” The segments, which echo the Trump administration’s anti-media rhetoric, are eerily uniform across all Sinclair affiliates, so much so that Deadspin’s Timothy Burke was able to edit them together into a supercut showing dozens of Sinclair anchors saying the exact

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ABOUT AUTHOR
Errington C. Thompson, MD

Dr. Thompson is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats.

Books

A Letter to America

The Thirteeneth Juror

Where is The Outrage Topics
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