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| Michael J. Fox on Missouri Cloning Amendment: "I Haven't Read It" |
| | October 30, 2006 |
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| RUSH: All right, a couple of global warming stories here. First from the UK Sun: "Hard working families face crippling new bills as the Government fights global warming with a raft of stinging taxes. But critics accused ministers of forcing the public to pay for their failure to react earlier to the crisis. Shadow Environment Secretary Peter Ainsworth said last night: 'We don't need a programme of green taxes: We need a green programme, full stop. This is just a list of taxes when what we need is a system of mutually reinforcing carrots and sticks.' He was speaking after it was revealed that Environment Secretary David Miliband had already drawn up sweeping green tax plans which he has put to Gordon Brown.
 "He wrote to the Chancellor: 'As our understanding of climate change increases, it is clear more needs to be done.' Typical families with two children could have to pay up to £1,300 more every year, according to estimates. The move came on the eve of today's publication of a major study on climate change — which some experts blame on harmful man-made emissions. Tony Blair describes the report — drawn up by former world bank chief Sir Nicholas Stern — as the 'most important' he has seen since becoming Prime Minister. It is set to fuel the row over the introduction of green taxes," and they've got pictures of London as a baked, cracking desert and so forth. This is exactly what the whole global warming movement is about, in a nutshell.
It is about raising taxes on people throughout the world for some global purpose. It is all about establishing giant global governments. It is about making sure that the well-off western societies get fleeced even more, all on the premise of manmade global warming. The vanity of such a charge is amazing. And I'll tell you, the rapidity with which people who don't even think about it have just glommed onto it and accepted it is stunning to me, supposedly intellectual people, supposedly smart people just buy into it because the elites are the ones saying that all this is happening, and these elite governments have elite people in them, and anything that increases the importance and the role of government in people's lives, why, why, that has to be supported.
Fear tactics and crisis-oriented thinking is behind all this. It nearly came to blows in Boulder, Colorado, recently. "The planet may be warming, but what started out as a polite discussion about hurricane trends turned plain hot here Wednesday. At issue was the role - if any - that global warming plays in fueling monster storms. But illustrating the volatile nature of the debate, the scientific conference descended into name calling. Colorado State University's William Gray, one of the nation's preeminent hurricane forecasters, called noted Boulder climate researcher Kevin Trenberth an opportunist and a Svengali who 'sold his soul to the devil to get (global warming) research funding.' Trenberth countered that Gray is not a credible scientist. |  |
|  "'Not any more. He was at one time, but he's not any more,' Trenberth said of Gray, one of a handful of prominent U.S. scientists who question whether humans play a significant role in warming the planet ... 'He's one of the contrarians, some of whom get money to spread lies about global warming,' Trenberth said during a break following his presentation at the 31st annual Climate Diagnostics & Prediction Workshop. About 150 scientists from more than 10 countries are attending the weeklong meeting. Trenberth and Gray traded barbs during Trenberth's presentation to the group. But the harshest comments were made during interviews with a reporter afterward...
"Trenberth noted Wednesday that the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season spawned the greatest number of named tropical storms and the most hurricanes on record. It was the only year with three Category 5 hurricanes...and produced the most costly storm on record, Katrina... Trenberth and his colleagues say there's little doubt the warming is due in part to the buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide. ... But Gray said there's no evidence that hurricanes are intensifying and that 'everything he (Trenberth) has shown can be refuted.' And Gray wasn't the only audience member to question some of Trenberth's assertions."
That went on and on, but it really descended -- and it's all about funding. It's the same thing with this embryonic stem cell research. It's bogus! It is bogus. Follow the market, ladies and gentlemen. Follow the market. Take the concept of embryonic stem cell research. If there was anything promising in it, you have to know that private sector money would be flowing into research. There are venture capitalists all over the place who would be seeking to make profits out of the research that would lead to something important involving embryonic stem cells, but guess what? There's no private sector money flowing into embryonic stem cells, zilch, zero, nada.
The issue is federal funding. Why? Because there's no other source for the money! Why do they want the money if the research is going to lead nowhere? It doesn't matter. They want the money. Everybody needs a living. Hey, if you could live off the federal government with grants instead of working, would you do that? Why don't these researchers go out, if they're so brainy, why don't they borrow the money? If it's so promising, do what everybody else does: go borrow money. But no, there's in assumption the government must pay for it. "Why this is health! Why, this is medicine! The government must pay for this."
Well, no, the government shouldn't, especially if it's a black hole. Its' the same thing here with global warming. It's all about funding, and the people who want funding from the governments that believe this thing will write reports saying human beings are the sole cause, the primary cause, whatever, of global warming. There are others who, on the basis of their own research, say, "No, you can't prove it yet," and so the clowns that are running around trying to get government money from all over the world then turn what they're doing around, they say, "Ah, these people are being funded by Big Oil, these people being are being funded by people that pollute and want to keep polluting so that they don't have to be held accountable for the global warming." | |
| The bottom line is there's no consensus in science on this, and there's nothing in science that says embryonic stem cells show promise. So what we have here is the politicization of medicine. This is the sad and shocking thing. We used to approach the cure for diseases in a truly bipartisan way, but now we don't. Now we've got Democrats and their allies with commercials all over saying certain Republicans are against curing this disease that you have or your friends have or other Americans have. They don't want people to get better, and so what we have, Democrats lying to sick people in this country, creating false hope (which is truly cruel) that this line of research will lead to something substantive, when it won't.
Even the people who say it might, say we need 15 to 20 years. Where have we heard that? In 1994 I heard we need 20 years to prove global warming, but we can't afford to wait because if we're wrong, it will be too late to stop it. Well, it's 20 years, and they still say, "We need more time. We can't afford to wait." Others are saying it's too late. They're all over the ballpark. Others are saying, "We can't fix global warming." Well, if we can't fix it, how the hell could we have caused it? It's just simple logic. If we're the reasons for it, and it's happening, then we ought to be able to stop what we're doing. But no, no, no, the problem's gone so far, the earth is now more powerful than we are.
It wasn't 20 years ago we had the power to totally destroy the climate on this planet, but we don't anymore because it's gotten so bad, we've so destroyed it, there's nothing we can do to fix it. That's what some of them say. They're all over the ballpark. But this is all about funding. Now, they've already politicized science, and let there be no mistake. We've talked about this. There's a presumption just like there is with law enforcement, they never lie, they never falsely accuse. They never go after the wrong guy. Why would they? They're the good guys. They're the guys with white hats. They're trying to spare us and save us from all the evil that's out there.
"Science? Why, these are these guys in white coats and the lab coats, and they're out there trying to cure disease and so forth. They wouldn't lie!" Yes, they will. They will lie for money; they will mislead for money. They politicize the arts; they politicize the English language. The liberals have politicized everything, and I just have to laugh when I listen to the liberals talk about how partisan conservatives are and how divisive Republicans and conservatives are. How the hell more divisive can you be than to run ads on television accusing Republicans of not wanting to cure people who have terminal diseases?
How much more divisive can it be than when it's a flat-out lie. When their spokesman hasn't even read the constitutional amendment in Missouri on which they're based, how in the world are you supposed to trust anything? That amendment, in fact, everybody gets caught up talking about it as a stem cell amendment because they very cleverly titled it stem cell research and whatever it is. It's a pro-cloning amendment, and the embryonic stem cell people say, "We're not killing embryos, we're cloning them! We're cloning embryos, and we're not going to kill any embryos. This is not an abortion issue."
They're doing everything they can to obfuscate what they really want to do, but it's nothing more than your typical liberal money grab. All money is theirs, as long as they can get somebody to get into your back pocket and take it out of your back pocket and hand it over to them, and that's what global warming is all about, that's what embryonic stem cell research is all about, and we see this massive new green tax increase being proposed for the UK, sit tight, folks. With the right people in Washington, it'll happen here.
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| RUSH: This Week with George Stephanopoulos, interviewing the actor Michael J. Fox. Stephanopoulos' question: "In the ad now running in Missouri, Jim Caviezel speaks in Aramaic. He says, 'You betray me with a kiss,' and 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 -- I don't think that's true. You know, I -- I campaigned for Claire McCaskill, so I had to qualify by saying I'm not -- I'm not qualified to speak on the page to page content of the initiative, although I'm -- I'm quite sure that I'll agree with it in spirit, I don't know -- on full disclosure, haven't -- haven't read it.
RUSH: Okay, so there you have it, Michael J. Fox told the world yesterday he's not even read Amendment 2. That's the amendment on which the commercial running for Claire McCaskill is based. Amendment 2 is pro-cloning. It contains the scientific term for what cloning is and permits it. We've been through all of this, all of last week. There's no question it's a cloning issue, and it's not even right to say it will legalize cloning. It will go further than that. It will make it constitutional in the state of Missouri, and the whole thing is being obfuscated by this stem cell campaign because the title of the amendment, Amendment 2, even references stem cell research and whatever it is.
I've got it in the stack. I have it right in front of me, but he didn't even read it. I know he's busy. He's got a lot going on, so he's relying on the spirit of what's in it, and he campaigned for Claire McCaskill, so he has to qualify that he's saying he's not qualified to speak on the page to page content of the initiative. "I said details. Details, Rush. Details." No, he's doing a commercial on something he doesn't admittedly have any knowledge of, sort of like a lot of people believed in the spirit of campaign finance reform. "Yeah, we gotta get the money out of politics. Yeah, there's too much money in it. Money is corrupting politics! We've gotta get it out of there."
Yeah, we didn't get any money out of politics, and anybody who thought that campaign finance reform or anything else is going to get money out of politics is a fool! All they did is shift the money. Created these 527s and look what that became. So we now have experts who are running around doing commercials on subject matter they admit they have little, if any, knowledge of, and they are of course heroes, ladies and gentlemen. Victims? You can't challenge them. Intentions! We have to look at their intentions and their intentions are what count. It doesn't matter if they're wrong. Doesn't matter if they're uninformed; it's their intentions. They care, at least they care. And of course the assumption is that nobody else does, and that was the point of the commercial, and that's what's so sad about it, to say that there are certain people, because they are Republicans, that don't care about curing disease. | |
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