"He’s A Doctor? Not A Medical Doctor, But Still,..."

"Don’t get a flu shot, warns conservative talk show host Michael Savage, because you just can’t trust the government."

You Thought Mitt Romney Was The Tip Of The Iceberg?

Oh goodie - along with the religious fruitcakes - you also get your conservative messaging from a bonafide NewAge homeopath:

  “We have a president who is close to becoming a dictator.”

I'll find your view of things credible as soon as you can prove water is medicine, asshole,...

 

You Ever Skipped A Rock & Hit A Flying Bird? Oh Man, There's Ripples Everywhere - And You're Eating Tonight!

Right Wing News' John Hawkins posts a lot of good, thought-provoking stuff, and he's got another one ready for us today:

  "If Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and let’s face it, pretty much everyone on MSNBC weren’t around, would Lakim Faust have been murdering white people? Maybe it’s time to start asking that question."

Maybe it is - there's a lot of Americans dying but, in my experience, that didn't seem to be *too much* of a problem until whites were targets of blacks. So, the first question most blacks would think "it’s time to start asking" wouldn't be on coverage of the issue, finally, but why hasn't more of it been everywhere? 

I'd bet you that one, long-enduring fact of American life, is enough to enrage a whole lot of Americans and - except when exploited as a ploy to "tweak" the Left -  even Right Wing News, sad to say, may be partially responsible for that. 

But honestly, between post-racial Republicans, our questions don't always have to be confrontations about race, do they? How about some answers? 

Like, speaking of our buddies at MSNBC, when they're asked a question like ""Is there science to back up the effectiveness of alternative treatments?" do you think the following is the proper answer?

"If you’re looking for the same kind of rigorous, double-blinded, placebo-controlled studies that set the gold standard in Western medicine, they might be harder to find when it comes to alternative treatments. 

"Many of these modalities are more personalized, less standardized, and so are harder to study in that way," she says. In spite of these differences, in recent years an increasing number of studies has provided verification of the effectiveness of alternative therapies — most notably, meditation, acupuncture and herbal remedies."

That probably IS the answer if you're a listener to the homeopath, Michael Savage, or the advocate, Rush Limbaugh, but what does the most knowledgable scientist in alternative medicine say? Along with "much of alternative medicine resembles a cult," Prof. Edzard Ernst finds science "might be harder to find" as well, but he's a little bit more conclusive:

"I have seen far too many of those bogus studies to have much patience left. They do not represent an honest test of anything, simply because we know their result even before the trial has started. They are not science but thinly disguised promotion. They are not just a waste of money, they are dangerous – because they produce misleading results – and they are thus also unethical."

If this is the truth, and you, John Hawkins, have a sincere interest in fixing the woes of this nation beyond pointing out what horrible people some blacks are - and I, just as sincerely, think you do - then I challenge you to become EVEN MORE INTERESTED in eliminating the cult-like influence of this equally "dangerous" and "unethical" scourge from the face of our nation. 

Why? Because, just like the equally superficial concept of race, the quackery inherent in "alternative" medicine has been the motivation and instigation for murder and countless other crimes world-wide - most notably fraud - while being promoted by Left and Right Wing thought leaders alike. And, strategically speaking, since the vast majority of political promoters are on the Left, we'd be undermining a major source of strength to the Democrats - both financially and "spiritually" - while dispelling myths that have wedded American society to Europe's Dark Ages for centuries. 

And that brings me back to America's racial problems:

Confirming certainties dispels uncertainties.

Like whether A) as Rudy Giuliani's "Broken windows theory" suggested, the low-hanging fruit of science and politics have larger implications culturally, and B) there's a possibility the American Right Wing will ever join the 21st Century:

Within the 21st Century, that is,...

 

He'll Surely Savage The Nation (If He Gets The Chance)

This is a hoot:

“'DANGERS' OF FISH OILS AND PROSTATE CANCER BASED ON FLAWED SCIENCE, SAYS DR. MICHAEL SAVAGE"

Of course, the "doctor" in this case is conservative commentator Michael Savage - a homeopath. 

And let's not forget this:

Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, "Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot."

For crying out loud, give the kid some water,...

 

This Is Going To Be Way Better Than Judge Judy

"Michael Savage's court case against the since departed Home Secretary, the statist buffoon Jacqui Smith, should be a riot."

-- Mark Steyn, on the one-and-only time I've ever found myself rooting for a homeopath, and it had to be someone in The National Review.

Judge A Man By The Content Of His KKKharacter

"A billboard proclaiming that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican has stirred a religious and political hornets' nest in Houston, where a church leader is trying to draw black voters into the Republican Party.

The jumbo-sized roadside ad made its contentious claim for about a week -- until a local black activist charged that the sign unjustly politicized King's legacy and was hurting his community by telling a 'blatant lie.'

'Martin Luther King may have very well believed in some of the Christian principles of the Republican Party, but Dr. Martin Luther King was not a Republican or a Democrat,' said Quanell X, who heads the New Black Panther Party in Houston.

'Dr. King was bigger than a political party -- he was a humanitarian, and so to attach him exclusively to any party is to devalue his humanitarian global status,' he said. 'We were insulted ... by the billboard because it was a blatant lie.'

King held great sway over black voters and carefully courted both Republicans and Democrats. He never officially endorsed a party or candidate.

But the founder of RagingRepublicans.org, the black conservative group that sponsored the sign, told FOXNews.com that the sign was designed to get blacks to rethink their political affiliation -- about 95 percent of blacks voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential elections -- and that this is just the beginning. He said a radio campaign that focuses on 'the destructive nature of liberalism' is forthcoming.

'We think it's imperative that [the GOP] try and attract more people from the communities of color to vote their values -- to vote conservative,' said Claver Kamau-Imani, who heads the Corinthian Christian Empowerment Church, a small house church in Houston.

What's more, he said, the sign is accurate.

Kimau-Imani told FOXNews.com that King's niece, the Rev. Alveda King, has long argued that her uncle was a Republican, though he acknowledged there was no documentation or voting record to prove it.

Those claims enraged Quanell X, who held a press conference late last week to rally against the sign and ended up in a shouting match over the legacy of the murdered civil rights icon.

The billboard, which Kamau-Imani says cost $3,000 to display for a month, came down shortly after Friday's press conference -- about 20 days ahead of schedule, a move Kamau-Imani attributed to the 'spineless' response of the billboard company, SignAd.

'The simple fact is that the leader of the Black Panther Party here in Houston called a news conference and they spooked,' he said.

Representatives for SignAd did not return requests for comment.

Quanell X told FOXNews.com he was pleased that he had succeeded in getting the billboard removed. He added that King would never have embraced the present-day GOP, which he said had 'racist elements.'

'Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would not be with the party of Newt Gingrich, he would not be with the party of Sarah Palin, he would not be with the party of Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage or Sean Hannity,' he said.

Representatives for the King family did not return requests for comment."

-- Joseph Abrams, wondering how anyone could miss the obvious, on FOX News.

No Wonder He's Such A Horse's Ass

"With ten million listeners, he is the third most listened-to Right-wing talk show host, but directs most of his brash, passionate ire at cultural rather than political targets.

A liberal in the 1960s, by the mid 2000s a brief stint on MSNBC ended when he wished the curse of Aids upon a listener who turned out to be a prankster. As Michael Weiner, his proper name, he is a widely-published homeopathy expert."

-- From The Daily Telegraph's list of America's 50 most influential political pundits