blah, blah, blah. I’m getting sick and tired of listening to the wailing on this. Over at TWA, we’ve had a bunch of outraged liberals come out complaining about Rush’s commentary, and I doubt that they even heard it.

Princeton Professor Robert P. George who sits on the bioethics comission says;

“I have great sympathy for Mr. Fox and other victims of Parkinson’s and similarly horrible diseases. I understand how desperately he hopes for a cure for what afflicts him and so many others. I have seen members of my own family suffer, and I too want to hasten the day when the great engine of science conquers the diseases that cause so much suffering. But the fact that Mr. Fox is a victim is not a license for him to mislead or manipulate the public. The truth — the whole truth — must be told. Those politicians who, for political gain, have run these ads in which the truth is distorted and people are misled deserve the most severe of reprimands. Win or lose, they have brought upon themselves disgrace.”

Here, here. Amendment 2 on the ballot in Missouri is actually called Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative. Fox is trying to say that Jim Talent opposes Stem Cell Research and Jim Talent wants to criminalize it. The Amendment 2 isn’t about Stem Cell Research. It’s about cloning. It hasn’t become a law in the 4 years they’ve tried to ram it through. They’re trying to make cloning an amendment - a RIGHT in the constitution.

Nobody wants to criminalize this research, as Fox says. That has nothing to do with the evil christian rightwing, that has to do with FACTS. You know. Stem Cell Research and Cloning aren’t one-in-the-same. FACTS seem to be what people conveniently leave out of the debate.

It’s pretty consistent, and the parading their victims thing in order to get the upper hand in a political debate based on nothing but emotions is another. It’s a shame because people aren’t listening to what’s being said, but how they feel about the speaker.

The same tactic they’re using by rolling Tammy Duckworth out against the war in Iraq because she had two legs blown off. They take advantage of this woman in order to make a political point, and I think that’s despicable.