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Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
MJ Fox hasn’t even read Amendment 2
Ian has the video and transcript of the admission (emphasis added):
Stephanopoulos: In the ad now running in Missouri, Jim Caviezel speaks in Aramaic. It means, “You betray me with a kiss.” And his position, his point, is that actually even though down in Missouri they say the initiative is against cloning, it’s actually going to allow human cloning.
Fox: Well, I don’t think that’s true. You know, I campaigned for Claire McCaskill. And so I have to qualify it by saying I’m not qualified to speak on the page-to-page content of the initiative. Although, I am quite sure that I’ll agree with it in spirit, I don’t know, I— On full disclosure, I haven’t read it, and that’s why I didn’t put myself up for it distinctly.
Unflippingbelievable.
Michael, in case you’re wondering what the specs of the bill state, and why Jim Talent (and others who agree with him, like me) don’t support it, click here.
Update I – 8:47 PM: McCaskill and Talent are now tied in the polls. The last poll had Talent up by two. Is the Fox ad making an impact?
Update II – 11:00 PM: Opinion Mill looks at some other things Fox said in the interview, and helps steer the debate back to where it should be. (Hat tip: ST reader DS)
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Jillbryant wrote, “Perhaps you are right and our government can no longer provide good research – America is certainly falling behind in a lot of areas. There was a time government funding produced the polio vaccine and everyone got their vaccination for free but those were different times.”
This is sort of a weird way of putting things. I’m not sure if it was government scientists that produced a polio vaccine or private companies who did (with or without government funding), but there are a hundred times more discoveries, inventiond, patents etc due to companies and individuals rather than the research and development done by “government”. Government is mostly involved in providing for the defense (20% of federal expenditures) and providing for social services (50% of federal expenditures) and with the remaining 30% providing veterans benefits, other health programs, educational dollars to the state, nutrition dollars, etc. The 13 trillion dollar economy in “America” has a wealth of smart people in great companies doing great research. Government should step back and let these companies compete in the marketplace without providing “funding” to a “chosen” “winner” company based on no results but some evaluators choosing who wrote up the best looking Proposal to the government for the lowest price.
If it is true that government scientists produced the polio vaccine that is great anecdotal evidence but NOT a overwhelming case for the general purpose of shifting government expenditures to choose winner and loser companies to award dollars to in advances in technology nor a reason for government to shift priorities from defense or the social services it has a hard time providing already towards newfangled unproven theories that groupthink dictates we all focus on for this moment in time.
JILL without due diligence made the accusation, “that became loaded down with more tax cuts for the super wealthy and who knows what else.”
Class warfare rhetoric is typical of lefty debate tactics. I’m not going to generalize you Jill as a liberal but the tactic itself is not productive to the debate especially since there was no reference to prove your CLAIM and it’s a common claim by liberals that generally pan out to be UNTRUE. Note: The caps and bold are not yelling but a stress of important words.
Jill wrote, “and who knows what else.”
And there were racist, sexist, anti-environment, anti-gay riders in the bill. Those wascally wepublicans…
Again also, Fox isn’t relevant. What is relevant is the issue and candidates. Fox may be 10 times smarter than you or I on the issue. However, the issue and the candidate Talent and Steele are being misrepresented in the ad.
BTW, Hope you read my 2:20 PM post and are for my cause. Are you?
“I assume that MJF is a generally intelligent person and, like most generally intelligent people I know, that he did research into something that means life or death to him.”
This despite the fact that he told the world that he hadn’t ever read the legislation in question?
Please.
“Steele and Talent are for adult stem cell research…”
Steele is also for non-destructive embryonic stem cell research.
Ma’am, one of your buzz-phrases is, “Think about it.”
Go ahead, think about it.
- Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccines that was really successful. He did it working in a Private institution/lab, funded about half and half with private and government grants.
- The Left is always going on about GOP spending, which is another pure strawman. They spend as much, or more, its just that they spend on social programs, at the cost of everything else. Bush is driving them nutz, because in spite of a costly war, he’s actually outspent the Dems by a record amount on their pet programs, which really harshes their mellow.
- BOT – Fox claims he hasn’t read the initiative “in it’s entirety”. Maybe. I’d have to buy the idea that he’s that gullible, to jump feet first into this issue, spending his celeb on a cause he hasn’t even researched. I suppose it’s possible, but you’d have to say, now that it’s true wording, and meaning, has been outed, that would be an awfully coveinient exit.
- Bang
On a related note, this article is fascinating:
Human Liver Grown In Test Tube From Stem Cells
This is potentially huge, as within a decade and a half they predict being able to grow whole livers, and in much less time than that be able to grow enough to act as a repair for damaged livers in human patients.
The liver is grown from, guess what? Umbilical cord stem cells. Another very promising, stunning actually, positive result that isn’t based on Embryonic Stem Cells.