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Hate mail from an M.D. regarding my AOL News piece, “Did WHO Knowingly Hype Swine Flu?”

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 04/19/2010

Dear Mr. Fumento: Well, if you wish to destroy the credibility of the WHO, publishing a few more articles like the most recent one…

Consumer Well-Being

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Toyota’s “questionable, evasive, and deceptive legal tactics”

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 04/12/2010

“Toyota has routinely engaged in questionable, evasive and deceptive legal tactics when sued, frequently claiming it does not have information it is required to turn…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

PETA’s meat lust defense to murder

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 04/08/2010

Terrence Jones, 20, of Washington, D.C. is on trial for the murder of Tanganika Stanton, whom he shot through the heart two years ago. …

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D.C. area poll shows, once again, OTHER Americans are crummy drivers

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 04/04/2010

Why are people killed in Toyotas? Because a huge number of Americans are killed by motor vehicles of all types and Toyota has been the…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

“A Good Friday to Remember,” my essay in NRO

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 04/02/2010

Good Friday, April 17, 1992: I’d just started a great job at Investor’s Business Daily in Los Angeles, and two weeks earlier I’d purchased the…

Blog

CDC dumping swine flu vaccine – after media dumped the truth

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 04/02/2010

What do you get from a phony flu scare? Among other things, lots of worthless vaccine. “Despite months of dire warnings and millions in taxpayer…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Car buyers rejecting “Toyota Terror” accusations

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 04/01/2010

“Terror on the Roads: Runaway Toyotas,” was the title of an entry on a prominent Brazilian blog March 31. But today Toyota Motor Sales…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

“How a pit bull is like a Prius,” my Philly Inquirer article today

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/31/2010

What could pit bulls possibly have in common with Toyotas? Pit bulls, after all, tend to be smaller and furrier. And whatever you do, never…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

“Are some reporters lying in their Toyota coverage?” my Canadian Free Press article

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/30/2010

I’ve shown clearly that reporters are acting with reckless disregard for the truth in the Toyota sudden acceleration feeding frenzy since my Los Angeles…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

The things I endure to get a story!

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/28/2010

If you think I was tough for embedding in Iraq’s meanest city a year after having my guts blown out in another part of…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

“Why Do Toyotas Hate the Elderly? my article in Forbes Online

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/28/2010

It was the Camry in a car wash nightmare. With her two grandchildren in the car, Doris Dresner went through the wash in Columbia, Mo.,…

Consumer Freedom

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“The People Speak,” my NRO piece on Obama’s nonsense about the Obamacare vote

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/27/2010

Shortly after the House approved the massive, historic health-care legislation and sent it to President Obama for his signature, the president declared the vote “proved…

Healthcare

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“How Media Took Us For A Ride In A Prius,” my IBD piece

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/25/2010

For three days, James Sikes held America’s highest honor: victim. The nation had been transfixed by his almost half-hour-long 94-mph horror ride in his runaway…

Consumer Freedom

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U.S. media ignoring my Prius hoax expose, but overseas . . .

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/24/2010

Mentions of my Forbes.com expose of the Prius hoax are almost entirely absent from U.S. newspapers, notwithstanding my numerous national TV appearances discussing it…

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No, Pres. Obama, the health care vote was not “of the people”

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/22/2010

I have repeatedly defended Obama against what I’ve considered unfair attacks from the right. I believe his actions for the most part have not been…

Healthcare

Blog

Media falsely claiming CHP report backs Toyota Prius hoaxer’s claim

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/21/2010

Over a week after I exposed the “Toyota Hybrid Horror Hoax” at Forbes. com, the press (as opposed to some TV networks, talk radio,…

Consumer Freedom

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“Preventative Care Myth,” my piece in NRO

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/19/2010

Declaring “I love numbers,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared after getting a thumbs up from the Congressional Budget Office on Thursday just before a scheduled…

Healthcare

Blog

Fumento podcast with Faust Wertz, health care legislation, Toyota, and more

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/19/2010

Faust Wertz is a great interviewer and it’s always a pleasure to be on her show. Today we discussed Toyota, health care legislation (including…

Blog

Remember the “cancer cluster” that made Erin Brockovich famous? (And rich?)

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/18/2010

Erin Brockovich became “America’s Sweetheart” because “she brought a corporation to its knees.” As the story goes, the energy company PG&E was storing chromium 6,…

Consumer Well-Being

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My NYPost piece on “sudden acceleration” as an American phenomenon

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/17/2010

“No other country in the world has comparable problems with cars accelerating on their own,” observes one of Germany’s top magazines, Der Spiegel — yet…

Consumer Freedom

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This blog at “Tundra Headquarters” plays my “Toyota Hysteria” piece the right way

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/17/2010

This blog titled “Toyota Crash Victim Speaks Out Against Media Smearing Automaker” exploits my cache as a victim of a REAL Toyota defect, which…

Regulatory Reform

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Washington Post spreading more misinformation on Prius hoax

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/16/2010

The media are still resisting admitting that James Sikes’s Wild Ride was just another Balloon Boy Hoax, in which they played a vital role. Thus…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Fumento on the Tube

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/15/2010

Fox & Friends, Fox Channel (duh!), 8:35 AM Tuesday.

Blog

Mike on TV

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/15/2010

Neil Cavuto again, 4:10 EST today, FoxBusiness, Prius hoax.

Blog

Fumento scheduled for Today Show Monday AM on Prius Hoax

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/14/2010

No guarantees! Starts at 7AM EST. Regarding my Forbes expose on the Prius Balloon Boy, James Sikes.

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Gov’t report backs up my Prius hoax revelation

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/14/2010

As I reported in Forbes Online on Friday, and am scheduled to discuss tomorrow on NBC’s Today Show (beginning at 7AM EST), the Balloon…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Video from my Prius hoax appearance with Neil Cavuto

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/13/2010

I was on Neil Cavuto’s show on Fox Business for five minutes yesterday regarding the Toyota Prius hoax. Personally I refuse to look at…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

“Toyota Hybrid Hoax,” my piece in Forbes Online

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/12/2010

Yes, you suspected it all along. Now I’ve proved it. Mr. Sikes’s wild ride was a fabrication. The only reason his accelerator was stuck…

Consumer Freedom

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Fumento on the Tube regarding Prius Expose in Forbes Online

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/12/2010

Neil Cavuto, 6:20, Fox Business, regarding my Forbes Online piece “Toyota Hybrid Horror Hoax.”…

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What does the public realize about the Toyota hybrid hysteria that the media are missing?

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/09/2010

On YouTube you can view a news report regarding the Prius alleged runaway hysteria incident, complete with an excerpt from the 911 call James…

Consumer Freedom

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