----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Cohen <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 9:14 AM Subject: NOTMILK STOSSELED BY A HOSTILE FOSSIL
> Dear Friends, > > Last night, 20-20 ran a story on DIOXINS in Ben & Jerry's ice cream. > > >From now on, when I see an attempt by the media to alter truth, I will > refer to it as a "stosselism." Any reporter who attempts to become a > corporate shill will be referred to as a "stosselist." A lie will be > called a "stossel." Conjugate the verb. I stossel, you stossel, she > stossels, they stossel...we all stossel. > > Here is a partial transcript of last night's show. I begin with the > ending. After the reporter stosseled, Barbara Walters said: > > "They won't like you." > > John Stossel's response: > > "The ice cream's safe. There are low levels of dioxins in > all kinds of food. I have Ben & Jerry's in my freezer. My > kids eat it. It's high in fat, but it's safe. It's this > feel-good environmentalism that galls me." > > Earlier in the four minute segment, Stossel explained: > > "Dioxin...it's absorbed in animal fat, and that's how most of > it gets to us...EPA considers dioxin a cancer risk...there is dioxin > in the ice cream...there are 13 pats of butter in a cup of > Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Do you think people know that?" > > Stossel had cited Steve Milloy's junkscience.com website. > > Milloy tested Ben and Jerry's vanilla ice cream, and found it to contain > 200 times the safe level of dioxin. > > The Department of Environmental Protection repeated the tests, and found > consumers eating ice cream containing 2,200 times the safe level of > dioxin. > > Stossel intentionally failed to reveal the actual levels of unsafe > dioxins. His report revealed only their presense. His logic? DEP > calls it a "cancer risk," but he serves it to his kids because > "feel-good environmentalists" gall him. > > The name of Stossel's editorial segment is: > > "GIVE ME A BREAK!" > > I'd like to ask ABC to do the same. > I've been stosseled more than I care to admit, > and this is the last stossel. > > To paraphrase a famous philosopher: "There are stossels, > damned stossels, and statistics." Today's wish is > for Mr. Stossel to become a statistic. 20-20's credibility > will forever be questioned when stosselists stossel. > > Robert Cohen > http://www.notmilk.com > > > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
