Michael Fumento
Factual · Powerful · Original · Iconoclastic
Advice & Dissent: 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, a cancer agent, in its on-site ponds but it leached into the wells of the nearby tiny desert town of Hinkley, Calif…Read More
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 an NRO piece I have upcoming today), and Mike's need for financial support to keep doing what he's doing.This is a very nice lady!Read More
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 vote on health care legislation. The budget office found that the House changes to the Senate legislation will cut…Read More
Over a week after I exposed the "Toyota Hybrid Horror Hoax" at Forbes. com, the press (as opposed to some TV networks, talk radio, and bloggers) just won't throw in the towel.Shifting a 2008 Prius "A California Highway Patrol report released on Wednesday in a sensational 'runaway…Read More
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 nearly as "liberal" as some have claimed. It's wrong to use his middle name of "Hussein" used against him, as if he could have chosen…Read More
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 and countless radio shows. As I noted, Sikes's claims regarding why he refused to put his care into neutral…Read More
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 Toyota Prius. He burned his brakes right down to the metal, unable to even slow the vehicle. Only his prescience in…Read More
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 that this government - a government of the people and by the people - still works for the people." In fact…Read More
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 the country, that was nothing compared to listening to the C-SPAN video of the 2-hour plus Star Chamber interrogation of Toyota Sales CEO James Lentz at the…Read More
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., with the gear in neutral. At the end, she stepped on the brake and put the car in drive. Suddenly it lunged forward. She slammed the brake, but…Read More
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