liberal dishonesty and michael j. fox
By now, everybody, I'm sure, has become aware of the Michael J. Fox/Rush Limbaugh controversy. The liberal drive-by media, true to form, is trying to turn this story into a personal battle between the Evil, Arrogant Rush Limbaugh and the thoroughly-likable Marty McFly/Alex P. Keaton. As usual, the drive-by media has the story wrong. This is a story of liberal dishonesty and the predictable attempt by the left to suppress opposing viewpoints by any means necessary. Let's go through the story point-by-point, leave out the emotion, and stick to the facts.
1. Michael J. Fox has recorded campaign commercials for several Democrat candidates around the country--Rep. Benjamin Cardin (Senate candidate in Maryland), Claire McCaskill (Senate candidate in Missouri) and Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (running for re-election). In each of the spots, Fox makes the claim that the GOP opponents of each of these candidates are opposed to stem cell research, and that a vote for the GOP is a vote against the poor victims of such horrific diseases as Parkinson's Disease. Fox has Parkinson's, and in the commercials his symptoms are extremely pronounced. You can visibly see the shakes and tremors, and it is heartbreaking to watch. I like Michael J. Fox, I'm a fan, and it is tragic that he has been stricken at such a young age with this disease. There is just one problem:
2. These campaign ads are not telling the truth. They are dishonest. None of the Republican candidates criticized by Fox are against stem cell research. All of them fully support adult stem cell research, and research using umbilical cord blood. Another way of saying that is, the GOP candidates fully support the only successful forms of stem cell research. What they do oppose is embryonic stem cell reasearch, which has produced zero success since its inception. Be that as it may, none of the GOP candidates support criminalizing embryonic stem cell research. They just don't want to expand it or provide federal funding for it. Those are the facts, and they are beyond dispute.
3. Rush Limbaugh discussed this issue on his hugely successful radio show, and made all of these very same points. Immediately, the liberal media screamed that El Rushbo was mean, that he ridiculed Fox, and that Limbaugh was aginst finding a cure for diseases. None of this is true. What Limbaugh did say, in addition to the points I have already made, is that he thought that Fox was either off his meds, or was "acting" to exaggerate his symptoms. He based this opinion on the fact that Fox's symptoms are not so pronounced when you watch him in shows like "Boston Legal." As it turns out, Fox freely admits that he temporarily goes off his meds when he testifies before Congress, or when he speaks out publically about Parkinson's. He wants people to see for themselves an unfiltered picture of the ravages of this disease. Limbaugh was right.
4. All of the hullabaloo over this story clearly illustrate several basic truths about liberalism.
Truth #1---Whenever liberals want to persuade you to take a certain position on a certain issue, they will select a spokeperson who, in some way, is a "victim", and they will tell conservatives that, because of the "victim status" of the spokesperson, dissenting opinion is prohibited.
Truth #2--Liberals do this because they know that a majority of Americans are somewhere on the right side of the political spectrum, and that this majority would never voluntarily support the cockamamie liberal agenda. Therefore, liberals must use deception, sleight of hand, and subterfuge to advance their agenda.
Truth #3--The louder liberals scream, the more sure you can be that they have been caught in a lie. It's like the old joke--"How can you tell when a liberal is lying? Their lips are moving, and they are hysterical!"
In a future post, I will focus on the stem cell debate in Missouri, and the fight over Constitutional Amendment 2--The Stem Cell Initiative. That name is dishonest, by the way. The initiative is actually a proposed amendment that would legalize human cloning, but that's a story for a future post.
1. Michael J. Fox has recorded campaign commercials for several Democrat candidates around the country--Rep. Benjamin Cardin (Senate candidate in Maryland), Claire McCaskill (Senate candidate in Missouri) and Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (running for re-election). In each of the spots, Fox makes the claim that the GOP opponents of each of these candidates are opposed to stem cell research, and that a vote for the GOP is a vote against the poor victims of such horrific diseases as Parkinson's Disease. Fox has Parkinson's, and in the commercials his symptoms are extremely pronounced. You can visibly see the shakes and tremors, and it is heartbreaking to watch. I like Michael J. Fox, I'm a fan, and it is tragic that he has been stricken at such a young age with this disease. There is just one problem:
2. These campaign ads are not telling the truth. They are dishonest. None of the Republican candidates criticized by Fox are against stem cell research. All of them fully support adult stem cell research, and research using umbilical cord blood. Another way of saying that is, the GOP candidates fully support the only successful forms of stem cell research. What they do oppose is embryonic stem cell reasearch, which has produced zero success since its inception. Be that as it may, none of the GOP candidates support criminalizing embryonic stem cell research. They just don't want to expand it or provide federal funding for it. Those are the facts, and they are beyond dispute.
3. Rush Limbaugh discussed this issue on his hugely successful radio show, and made all of these very same points. Immediately, the liberal media screamed that El Rushbo was mean, that he ridiculed Fox, and that Limbaugh was aginst finding a cure for diseases. None of this is true. What Limbaugh did say, in addition to the points I have already made, is that he thought that Fox was either off his meds, or was "acting" to exaggerate his symptoms. He based this opinion on the fact that Fox's symptoms are not so pronounced when you watch him in shows like "Boston Legal." As it turns out, Fox freely admits that he temporarily goes off his meds when he testifies before Congress, or when he speaks out publically about Parkinson's. He wants people to see for themselves an unfiltered picture of the ravages of this disease. Limbaugh was right.
4. All of the hullabaloo over this story clearly illustrate several basic truths about liberalism.
Truth #1---Whenever liberals want to persuade you to take a certain position on a certain issue, they will select a spokeperson who, in some way, is a "victim", and they will tell conservatives that, because of the "victim status" of the spokesperson, dissenting opinion is prohibited.
Truth #2--Liberals do this because they know that a majority of Americans are somewhere on the right side of the political spectrum, and that this majority would never voluntarily support the cockamamie liberal agenda. Therefore, liberals must use deception, sleight of hand, and subterfuge to advance their agenda.
Truth #3--The louder liberals scream, the more sure you can be that they have been caught in a lie. It's like the old joke--"How can you tell when a liberal is lying? Their lips are moving, and they are hysterical!"
In a future post, I will focus on the stem cell debate in Missouri, and the fight over Constitutional Amendment 2--The Stem Cell Initiative. That name is dishonest, by the way. The initiative is actually a proposed amendment that would legalize human cloning, but that's a story for a future post.
posted by hondo at 11:20 AM
2 Comments:
1) fox did an ad for republican senator specter in 2004. remember that?
2) the embryonic stem cell issue is hardly beyond dispute. the primary reason it has produced "zero success" as you state is that it has been so restricted. adult stem cell research has been virtually unrestricted and has received many, many times more funding. that tends to equate with success in scientific studies.
3) rush limbaugh is a hugely successful prescription drug addict who "hugely and bigly" used the aclu to duck his drug charges. and tell me, why was he travelling to the dominican republic, home to one of the world's most robust sex industries, with an unprescribed bottle of viagra? do you really admire this man, christian? perhaps he's just jealous that fox gets his meds legally.
4) our founding fathers were liberals, by the very definition of the word. remember that next time you denigrate a "liberal".
furthermore, in response to your mission statment ("We are doomed unless we turn back to God, and back to the guiding principles our Founding Fathers built this country on.") consider the following:
JOHN ADAMS
"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"
--in a letter to Thomas Jefferson
JAMES MADISON
"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
"What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not."
--both quotes from his 'Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments'
THOMAS JEFFERSON
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god."
--letter to Peter Carr, 1787
"You say you are a Calvinist. I am not. I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know."
--letter to Ezra Stiles Ely, 1819
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
"If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish church, but practiced it upon the Puritans. These found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here [England] and in New England."
--from his essay, "Toleration"
Also, a Dr. Priestley, an intimate friend of Franklin, wrote of him:
"It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers"
--from Priestley's Autobiography
THOMAS PAINE
"Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity."
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my church."
--from Paine's book, "The Age of Reason"
separation of church and state is not intended to keep faith out of politics, my friend. it is to keep the dirty business of politics out of the pure practice of faith.
this sunday when you go to church, seriously consider if you want that place corrupted by the politicians you allow to use it for their ill gains. you are contributing to the subversion and tainting of the good word by the unholy and disrepectful.
be mindful of that.
OK, Anonymous, let's take your points one by one:
1. Fox did an ad for Specter? You are correct, sir. So what? What's your point? Fox loves liberal Republicans as well as liberal Democrats. What does that have to do with the current story?
2. Did you know, sir, that $90 million of the people's money has been spent on embryonic stem cell research so far? The results---ZERO. Adult stem cell research, on the other hand, has resulted in scores of medical breakthroughs. I wouldn't expect ESCR to have yielded equal results, but shouldn't it have yielded SOMETHING for $90 million? The conservative looks at those facts and says, "Let's focus on adult stem cell research." Clearly, the liberal is freakishly obsessed with destroying human life and not so interested in curing disease.
3. Those are some very interesting personal attacks against El Rushbo, but what's your point? What does any of it have to do with the current story? You, sir, have provided us with a teachable moment. You were unable to dispute the cold, hard facts that I presented, so you resorted to the tired liberal strategy of change the subject/personal attacks. So predictable!
4. Now we come to the real reason why you decided to visit my blog. You are one of those poor, deluded souls who still clings to the fiction that our Founding Fathers were Deists or atheists, and that our Constitution prohibits any expression of Christian thought in the public square. Those quotes you cite are taken out of context. The truth is, our Founding Fathers were, for the most part, Christian men. Each and every one of them believed that the constitutional republic they created had no chance for survival unless "we the people" were a Christian and virtuous people who, in turn, would select Christian and virtuous representatives. Most of them were also very aware of the fact that sinful humans were very capable of distorting God's Biblical teachings. They were very suspicious of man-made religion and man-made doctrine. The quotes you cite illustrate that point very clearly. If you try to make the point that these quotes prove that the Founding Fathers were Atheists or Deists or Agnostics, then you are incorrect. Do you want proof? Go to the Library of Congress website at www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/
and look for yourself. or go to www.wallbuilders.com/resources/index.htm
and see more proof. Read the Gospel of John in the Bible and see for yourself what Jesus has to say to you. God bless you sir!
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