It’s a shocker of a headline:

And it’s a lie.

First, it’s conducted by a group known as “American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)”. Here’s part of their Wikipedia entry:

The association is generally recognized as politically conservative or ultra-conservative, and its publication advocates a range of scientifically discredited theories, including the belief that HIV does not cause AIDS, that being gay reduces life expectancy, that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, and that there are links between autism and vaccinations.

In other words, charlatans.

And, their polling is just as specious.  Even they describe it as “an informal internet survey” — not scientific at all. Are the respondents really doctors? Did people submit multiple entries? All we know is that only people who are attracted to this nutball organization were the ones venting their spleen.  Assuming they know what a spleen is…

Saturday always belongs to Cashin’ In, and it’s no surprise that this one did too.  The hourly total was a bit stronger than usual, and the daily total was substantially stronger that normal.

2015-04-18-ShowStats.csv

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Pretty much as I predicted nearly three weeks ago, Hillary Clinton has wiped clean her server so that there’s no chance of reviewing the emails she did not turn over to the Department of State.  Here’s what her lawyer wrote to Congressman Trey Gowdy:

To avoid prolonging a discussion that would be academic, I have confirmed with the secretary’s IT support that no emails…..for the time period January 21, 2009 through February 1, 2013 reside on the server or on any back-up systems associated with the server.

That won’t stop people from trying to find a way to still recover those emails, but let me offer a word of advice: it’s not going to happen and you’re getting played here.

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The NY Times has details today of Apple’s upcoming streaming TV service, and there’s one quote that has me wondering:

One major entertainment company not involved in the latest round of discussions is Comcast and its NBCUniversal entertainment group, the people said.

Although the article focuses more on NBCUniversal’s entertainment channels, there’s one other channel in its lineup: the MSNBC news network. Apple’s not striking a deal with Comcast means that MSNBC would be excluded from Apple’s streaming service.  The article indicates that Fox is included in the service, so, presumably, Fox News would be available.

Dish TV’s Sling TV service includes CNN, so it’s not hard to envision Apple picking up CNN as well.  That means, in the end, Apple could offer all the major Cable News networks except MSNBC.

That’s the problem with being owned by a content distribution company — MSNBC could find what’s best for it (widest distribution across all channels) is at odds with what’s best for its parent (people sticking to cable TV), and MSNBC would end up the loser in that battle.

Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-03-14

I’m not sure what people were talking about yesterday on Cable News Twitter — certainly no dominant topic.  That happens, I guess.  We do know who was saying it: the viewers of Fox News’ Cashin’ In and their hashtag #WakeUpAmerica:

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It is fun to make up sentences out of the most popular words.  I bet “Obama now will like us” is probably not quite what people were saying, though.  Although “Hillary people: police know” is intriguing.  “Say truth President” — could be.

Raw data: 2015-03-14-TagStats.csv and 2015-03-14-WordStats.csv

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