Response to Fox Ad
Here it is -- with spokesman including Jim Caviezel, beloved former St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warne, World Series Cards pitcher Jeff Suppan, and Deborah Heaton, late of "Everybody Loves Raymond."
posted by LadybugUSA at 3:17 PM
8 Comments:
Way cool. I feel bad for those like Fox who have bought into what so far has been nothing but false promises and false hope. To exploit people like Fox (I don't mean to say he's a total stooge. I'm sure he thinks he's on the right side.), and to arrogantly decide that his life is more important than the life or lives sacrificed on his behalf, is very Nazi-like and shameful beyond words.
What Carol linked to is not a response to the Fox ad--it is an ad ooposed to Missouri state Prop 2. If you go here, you can see a pro-Prop 2 ad.
The ad starts with former Republican Senator John Danforth (R-MO). He intones, "Opponents of the stem cell initiative are making claims that are not true. Missouri voters deserve to hear the facts."
The ad includes a the former Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court stating, "I have studied the stem cell initiative. It clearly bans any attempt to clone a human being."
So, who all y'all going to believe, athletes and film/TV stars or a former Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court and US Senator from Missouri?
As an aside, "somatic cell nuclear transfer" is a means to cloning. In the Missouri bill it is conflated with blastocyst, and detached from "Cloning" or "Attempt to clone".
I object to the notion that because Michael J Fox is afflicted with a disease, that he is not allowed to be challenged on his assertions.
What is offensive is that ads such as Fox's don't make a distinction between the KINDS of stem cell research. I presume that Michael J Fox knows the difference.
Just to set the record straight: John Danforth is a former Missouri attorney general and U.S. senator. He was never a justice of the Missouri state Supreme Court. Of course, he is entitled to his own views on embryonic stem cell research, just as the rest of us are. It's not surprising that he's supportive of it, given that his brother died of Lou Gehrig's disease.
First, sorry for the confusion. I did not mean to imply that John Danforth was a MO SC Justice. For anyone watching the ad, it is clear the retired Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court was Ann K. Covington.
As Carol noted, "Just to set the record straight: John Danforth is a former Missouri attorney general and U.S. senator." Carol, would you agree that Sen. Danforth is probably the most respected living politician in Missouri? In any event he is a life-long staunch Republican.
Just today--in a suprising turn of events--Sen. Danforth announced he will not publically endorse Jim Talent.
So those who support it because they love/loved someone who suffers from a disease whose cure might arise from stem cell research are given a pass because of their compromised sense of judgment.
The rest of us are to be ashamed of ourselves.
Cliff writes, "Editor, why don't you ACTUALLY LISTEN to Rush limbaugh BEFORE commenting on something he said. If you did, you might be able to make an intelligent and informed comment, and we could take you seriously for once!"
Great idea, Cliff. Why doesn't everyone go and watch the
video of Rush mocking and ridiculing a person with Parkinson's disease?
After you watch Rush making fun of a Michael J. Fox, come on back and lecture Editor and me about intelligent and informed discussion. Rather than embracing this stuff, all y'all should be ashamed and embarrassed by this performance.
video of Rush mocking and ridiculing a person with Parkinson's disease?
Bad, Rush. Bad!
There. Took care of that!
Can we talk about the substance of Michael J. Fox endorsing Ben Cardin in Maryland? That's the same Ben Cardin who voted AGAINST stem cell research of the most promising variety.
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