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Mark E. Hyman (born January 6 , 1958 ) is the Vice President for Corporate Relations for Sinclair Broadcast Group , the largest chain of local television stations in the United States . BACKGROUND Is a 1981 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a CAPT. in the USNR. CAREER Beginning in 2001, he created conservative editorial segments that were broadcast on many of the group's 62 stations, called ''The Point''. On November 2, 2006, after more than five years and 2,000 daily commentaries, he announced that he plans to drop his daily commentary at the end of the month, citing a desire to spend more time with his four children. {Link without Title} The final "The Point" commentary aired on November 30. CONTROVERSIES Controversy over Hyman began after the September 11 attacks, when he attacked some journalists and news agencies - such as National Public Radio , the New York Times , and CNN - as "aiding and abetting the enemy" when they reported on civilians accidentally killed during the U.S. attack on Afghanistan . (In the U.S. Constitution , these are the exact words used to define Treason ). He later used the phrase Cheese-eating Surrender Monkeys to describe the French in one of his editorials. Other notable slurs include calling war protesters "whack-jobs" and "communists." In late 2004, he took heavy criticism for the firing of Jon Lieberman , Sinclair's Washington bureau chief and reporter, following the latter's public criticism of Sinclair's announced plan to air the controversial anti- Kerry film '' Stolen Honor '' as a news program in Prime Time on all of its stations. Hyman called Lieberman a "disgruntled employee" and said the firing was because Lieberman had " {Link without Title} to the press about company business." Lieberman pointed to the fact that Sinclair had previously been pleased enough with him as an employee to promote him, and attributed his firing to his criticism of Sinclair's ''Stolen Honor'' plan, a plan he claims originated with Hyman. On August 30, Hyman claimed that Social Security discriminates against minorities; in fact, some minorities have longer life expectancies after retirement than whites {Link without Title} . Even though some minorities may have longer life expectancies than whites, the vast majority of minorities in the United States do in fact have shorter life expectancy than their caucasian counterparts. He also claimed spouses who worked for less than 10 years because they "gave up career in order to raise a family... get diddly-squat"[http://www.newscentral.tv/uploads/franchise/point/point-20050830.shtml . In fact, married Social Security recipients are eligible for all the benefits that they have earned for themselves, and, in addition, if those benefits are less than half of what their spouse receives, they also receive spousal benefits that increase their overall benefits to an amount equal to half their partner's benefit, plus survivor benefits. {Link without Title} PERSONAL LIFE Mark Hyman is married with four children. He currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. EXTERNAL LINKS
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