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something disturbing....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, September 17 2011, 16:33:27 (UTC)
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...it was such fun to hear Perry announce that he was "offended" that Bachmann would imply he could be bought for a mere $5000. The exchange came during their debate, if you want to call it that, where Bachmann took Perry to task for accepting a contribution from Merck and then making their vaccine mandatory for all young girls in Texas....you know, where they HATE government mandates!

"I've raised thirty million dollars and for you to suggest I can be bought for $5000 is offensive"....unfortunately Bachmann didn't follow up with any number of great comebacks...such as, "well what IS your price"?.....or that classic, "we've already decided what you are, we're just arguing about your price".

The next day Lawrence O'Donnell, that liberal scold, said that women would die because of Bachmann's denunciation of Merck's vaccine...that lives are saved etc...he said that conservatives are anti-science and this just proves how dangerous they can be etc.

And then last night Bill Maher chimed in also deriding Bachmann's scary science and ignorance and all of that.

What made this incident weird to begin with is what the liberals missed...that an ex-staffer of Perry's had become a lobbyist for Merck and it was no doubt his influence, and Merck's cash (turned out to be $30,000) and not a "humanitarian" or even sensible impulse on Perry's part that got that law forced through in Texas and made Merck even more money.

Neither O'Donnell nor Maher mentioned the lobbyist....and what other states have passed such a law? If this vaccine is all it's supposed to be, and if it will indeed save women years down the line from cervical cancer, and save lives, why haven't more liberal and more proven humanitarian AND more science-friendly, governors passed similar laws? And if the vaccine is legit, why did Merck have to pay Perry...why wasn't Perry paying MERCK?

The issue here was not the vaccine, not even cancer and certainly not science, one way or the other...the issue was that a friend and former staffer of the governor's went to work for Merck and was used to get to his old boss, with money...and the fear among the rest of us is not about science, or even this vaccine, but about money being used to influence policy...and lord knows we've seen enough examples of drug companies influencing or plain buying out the FDA to rush drugs onto the market, using us as their lab rats where once they had to run costly trials etc.

I mean look at the drug commercials offering a pill for what ails you, and taking up about five seconds to tout its efficacy and then two minutes warning you of the fatal side-effects...and then even offering to give you a free "trial sample"....if you are too "poor and in need"....right. They used to have to PAY lab rats...now they can test us for free.

That was the issue for me anyway....but the liberals knee-jerked it into "look at the dumb science people"...and "wow, a conservative catches hell even when he's being compassionate".

I'm not sure I want to live in a country, with the record these drug companies have, where any governor tells me I HAVE to give a new medicine to my kids. I'm not at all convinced that any of them have the best interest of children in mind...if any of them did they'd do something about homeless children and burned out schools and medical coverage.

What's even funnier than the commercial offering to cure you of one thing while threatening to give you ten others is the number of lawyers now advertising for class-action lawsuits and the people who may have taken a drug five years ago which now turns out to have been deadly or ineffective....that's on channel 5...over on channel 4 they're advertising another new drug which you might well be suing over in another 5 years....



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