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I'd like to change my username to BemusedLeftist but I'm not sure if I'd still appear on flists.

Anyway here are some interesting figures:

Cable News Ratings for Monday, October 19, 2009

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,302,000 viewers
CNN – 462,000 viewers
MSNBC –386,000 viewers
CNBC – 222,000 viewers
HLN –306,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,511,000viewers
CNN— 620,000 viewers
MSNBC –810,000 viewers
CNBC – a scratch w/ 117,000 viewers
HLN – 523,000 viewers

5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,614,000 viewers (765,000) (1,268,000)
Situation Room—696,000 viewers (167,000) (280,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—459,000 viewers (135,000) (223,000)
Fast Money—324,000 viewers (115,000) (183,000)
Prime News–228,000 viewers (92,000) (127,000)

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http://citizenvox.org/2009/10/22/medical-malpractice-victims-to-congress-w
e-are-not-frivolous.

Medical malpractice is at epidemic levels in this country. The Institute
of Medicine estimated in 1999 that up to 98,000 people die every year in
America's hospitals from medical errors. There's nothing "frivolous" about
that.