Front Page: Health Sec. Confirmation Sped Up Due to Swine Flu

April 28, 2009

by POPSUGAR Sex & Culture 6

The Senate is expected to confirm Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services today, so she can quickly start her response to swine flu. — AP
Since the outbreak of swine flu, the WHO and the CDC have been trying to balance the need to provide information about the deadly disease without causing panic. — New York Times
Fox has declined to air President Obama's primetime news conference Wednesday, instead sticking with the regularly scheduled show Lie to Me. — AP
A photo op intended to capture images of an Air Force One plane with a majestic Statue of Liberty set off a panic yesterday in NYC. — AP
A cult leader being held on the French India Ocean island of Reunion for child sex charges escaped from the jail in a helicopter. — AFP
While his fiancée is still by his side, the wedding for accused "Craigslist Killer" Phillip Markoff has been called off. — People

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6 Comments

4 years 3 weeks

#3 if they are interested they can tune into the numerous other channels that are airing it. It has always bugged the crap out of me that it has to be on every damn network. I am glad. I rather enjoy lie to me. And I know how things work when they say they'll reschedule shows. They never actually air them, or air them at a time when there is another show I watch. All Obama is gonna do is use this opportunity to push his agenda, rather then actually telling us like it is, he has to actively campaign in EVERY freakin speech(and yes I meant speech and not conference since he will be strictly reading off of his teleprompter) The way that he addressed the swine flu the other day had my jaw dropped to the floor. Why does he has to take an event where so many people are suffering and possibly dying and turn it into an opportunity to push people in the direction he wants them to go. He is a bully and is shamelessly using a possible pandemic for his gains. I'm saddened by that man, and even more sad that i voted for him.

piper23 4 years 3 weeks

I'm sure you are correct. Then there are some of us who would rather watch trash tv than watch Obama blowhard for an hour. That is what CNN and the other news channels are for.

LuvLeoDiCaprio 4 years 3 weeks

Umm they should show it, I am sure more people are interested in what's going on in the world then trash tv.

piper23 4 years 3 weeks

I don't understand why it is neccessary for major networks to cover every Obama news conference in primetime. I understand it is a choice and I applaud Fox for declining. Address to the nation, yes, news conferences, no. Pandemic or no pandemic.