Embryonic Stem Cell Research and the 06′ Election
The Michael J Fox Campaign Ads I believe are a disgrace and are intended to decieve the greater voting public purely for political reasons. Political pandering pure and simple.
As Ann Coulter explained on our show when we discussed her best selling book “Godless:The Church of Liberalsim:”
“…(T)he Democrats hit on an ingenious strategy: They would choose only messengers whom we’re not allowed to reply to. That’s why Democratic spokesmen these days are sobbing, hysterical women. You can’t respond to them because that would be questioning the authenticity of their suffering.”
She refers to this in her book as the “doctrine of infalliability.”
Our friends at Right Wing News Blog has this to say:
…the amount of misinformation on embryonic stem cells out there is absolutely staggering. Basically, you have desperate people like Fox and Nancy Reagan out there pushing embryonic stem cells because they’ve been told that it may be a miracle cure for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. But, the hard, cold reality is that embryonic stem cells have never cured anything in a human and it’s entirely possible that they never will. In fact, the reason why embryonic stem cells need federal funding in the first place is because private industry doesn’t think ESC’s are worth sinking money into. So, we’re really getting to the point where the push for embryonic stem cells is not just wasted money, it’s turning into a cruel method of offering false hope to people like Michael J. Fox for political purposes.
Last but not least, the one thing I dislike the most about this sort of commercial is that there is a very obvious response to it: you go get someone else with Parkinson’s and you put them on TV talking about how great Jim Talent or Michael Steele is and why embryonic stem cell research is a farce. Is that what politics should really be all about? Dueling sick people trying to draw in “pity votes?” Apparently, a lot of Democrats, including Claire McCaskill and Ben Cardin think so — and that’s too bad.
Can’t help but thinking back to the “breck girl” John Edwards who proclaimed that “when John Kerry is elected president people are going to get up and walk out of their wheel chairs.” Nothing is out of bounds for these people.
October 25th, 2006 at 10:55 am
A great analysis Gregg - the whole incident highlights exactly what Ann Coulter was talking about…the messenger plays on emotion, distorts the facts and is always someone to whom you can’t respond without being called some kind of name. The text of the ballot question itself is completely duplicitious. Have you seen the rebuttal ad? It’s pretty good. Wizbang has the link.
October 26th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Nice Comments …Does anyone recall the George Clooney comments about Charlton Heston? Do any Libs recall the Air America Request for a good Assassin? Does anyone recall the Wash. Post columnist who hoped that Clarence Thomas’s wife would feed him LOTS OF BUTTER AND EGGS SO HE COULD DIE YOUNG LIKE MOSE BLACKS? They attack those in the midwest saying they are Stupid, Ignorant, etc! The worst example I have seen was on the Scarborough program..Lawrence O”Donell right after the presidential election let go on Scarborough with a such a Vile Hate Filled diatribe …even living in Mass. I was uable to believe what I had heard! His entire blow up was NOT BASED ON FACTS…JUST NAME CALLING AND WHINING. DEMOCRATS/LIBERALS CANNOT MAKE ARGUMENTS ON FACTS AND I THINK THEY BELIEVE THAT BLACKS AND RED STATERS ARE SO STUPID THAT THEY DO NOT REALIZE IT!
Zell Miller was NO SLOUCH and they hated his support of Bush…they actually have candidates like Casey in Pa who says he is AGAINST ABORTION…but lets remember HE WILL NOT COUNT WHEN IT COMES TO A VOTE..IN FACT HE WILL PROBABLY VOTE FOR ABORTION! Democrats complain that Republicans do not want to support Partial Birth Abortion and yet they complain about “Waterboarding” terrorists to get information that could SAVE LIVES…I HAVE SEEN AND READ ABOUT PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONS..IF THEY ARE NOT TORTURE I CANNOT IMAGINE WHAT IS…JUST BECAUSE THE “CHILD” HASN’T LEARNED TO YELL STOP OR HASN’T LEARNED TO READ THE TERRORIST HANDBOOK..HE IS LEFT DEFENSELESS BY DEMOCRATS. HIS BRAINS ARE DESTROYED AND HE IS SENT TO THE OVENS…ALL DEMOCRATIC IDEAL TYPES OF TORTURE EXCEPT THE DEMOCRATS CALL IT HEALTH CARE!
October 26th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
I love it when Caron goes full boar “cap lock” and lets it all out. God love ya Caron. Well said.
Gregg