MSNBC is going to air a Bill Cosby town hall meeting on September 20 at Howard University that is set to explore poverty in America.  The forum will focus on, "parenting, education and health issues facing the poor in America."

Please tell me why MSNBC and Bill Cosby, who be hosting NAACP President, Ben Jealous, author Terrie Willimas, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Dr. Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, would participate in a forum organized by the IWF with Michelle Bernard as the moderator of the discussion.

Michelle Bernard is the President and CEO of the Independent Women's Forum, the organization that has been running a malicious ad focusing on scaring breast cancer victims.  The Independent Women's Forum shares its premises and resources with Americans for Prosperity.  Americans for Prosperity is the organization that created Patients First and Patients United Now, groups that have been critical to disrupting the health care debate in an effort to sidetrack the entire process.

Why would a forum of brilliant, caring people want to be involved with the IWF and  a moderator like Bernard - someone who would use corrupt lies and fear tactics to move a political agenda forward?  Why would MSNBC allow the person ultimately responsible for an ad that their  network called out on the Rachel Maddow Program to be in the spotlight on their network?

Factcheck.org has researched the breast cancer ad created and paid for by the Independent Women's Forum.  Not only does the non-partisan Factcheck.org find fault with the ad, the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute also say that the data used in the ad is not accurate and does not reflect honest survival rates or statistics.  Included in the group dissatisfied with the ad is Shelley Fuld Nasso, director of public policy for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Advocacy Alliance who also states that the statistics are not valid.  Please go HERE to read the entire article aptly titled, "A False Appeal To Women's Fears."

Bill Cosby, America's favorite Dad, surely has better judgment than to sit down to discuss poverty and health care with Michelle Bernard whose professional political agenda is based on deceiving our most vulnerable citizens.  I can only assume that MSNBC might actually be in search of ratings, as declared by FOX News.

How disappointing.  How thoroughly disappointing.

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This is part III in a three part series on Michelle Bernard - I promise.

Dear Joan - On MSNBC Analyst and Accountability

Michelle Bernard:  A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

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Part IV in the three part series - SMACKDOWN?  Will Randi Weingarten take on Michelle Bernard