Author, Doctor, Speaker, Joseph Bentivegna

Doctor Bentivegna is an ophthalmologist living in Connecticut. He has written numerous op-ed pieces for The Hartford Courant and The New York Times regarding health care, tort reform, and the political situation in Haiti.

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The Politics of Facebook

April 11, 2018       The recent testimony of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is being portrayed as the response of our political class to invasions of user privacy. But this is really about the political classes’ realization that Facebook has the power to organize voters and skew elections based on the preferences of Zuckerberg and his minions.       By Zuckerberg’s own admission, the tech industry is liberal. Thus Facebook, along with Twitter and Google are censoring conservatives in an attempt to restore liberalism’s previous monopoly on information. Pro-life and anti-gun control posts are squashed. A popular pro-Trump duo of African-American women, Diamond and Silk, has been deemed “unsafe.”       The tech industry also avails preferred politicians to its data. President Obama used data given to his campaign by Google and Facebook to target specific voters. Google executives visited the Obama White House and astonishing 427 times. Chris Hughes, one of Facebook’s founders, set up the initial web site to fund raise … [Read more...]

Congresswoman Esty – Champion of Women’s Rights

March 31, 2018       When Donald Trump became President, liberal Connecticut Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty proudly donned the symbolic pink hat, becoming a fierce member of “The Resistance” to protest the ascent of this evil misogynist. As the #MeToo movement - a reaction against male sexual assault - gained steamed, she tweeted “As a young intern and an attorney, I saw and experienced my fair share of harassment in the workplace. I know how traumatizing, isolating, and painful harassment can be. I understand what that does to one’s work environment.”        So when her Chief-of-Staff Tony Baker punched one of her other staffers, Anna Kain, and then sent Ms. Kain a text that said “You better f***ing reply to me or I will f***ing kill you,“ Congresswoman Esty sprang into action. She immediately fired Mr. Baker without severance, reported the incident to the police and issued the following statement: “We women are tired of being treated like dirt. We have the right to participate in the work place without being objectified by lecherous predatory violent males. I have dedicated my profession career to … [Read more...]

St. Francis Will Defeat UConn Women

March 13, 2018       The St. Francis University Red Flash have won the NEC (Northeast Conference) Tournament automatically qualifying for the NCAA Tournament where as a sixteenth seed, we will play the UConn Women in the first round. My alma mater will succeed in scoring the biggest upset in athletic history.       Now before you accuse me of smoking weed before Connecticut has legalized it, hear me out. Even though our undergraduate enrollment is slightly larger than the number of trainers the Huskies employ, St. Francis University has a proud basketball tradition.       Nestled in the foothills of western Pennsylvania in the small town of Loretto, St. Francis produced Maurice Stokes, the NBA Rookie of the Year in 1956. Norm Van Lier and Kevin Porter became NBA stars. Bonnie Kleinschuster shot 90% from the foul line in the 1978 season, a record no male has matched. Mike Iuzzolino lit up the NBA with his deadly three-point shooting in the early 1990s.       Skeptics will point out that the Red Flash encountered the … [Read more...]