Rosie O’Donnell Believes Reverend Wright, Part 2
Rosie O’Donnell: Still Not One Of Our Brightest Minds
Shooting down the arguments presented by that lovable Ton of Funny, Rosie O’Donnell, is just too easy, really. Clearly, she isn’t a very knowledgeable woman, nor is she noted for clarity or common sense.
Yesterday’s analysis had to do with her profound misunderstanding of the ‘Three-Fifths Compromise’ of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Today, we will explore a key observation she made about what is commonly referred to as The Tuskegee Experiment.
Infecting Innocent Black Men With Syphilis?
For years I have had to suffer through warped history lessons about The Tuskegee Experiment by the occasional brilliant, forward thinking individual that would cross my life path. Whether a bright eyed child at my old college, a self important child at my old law school, or best of all, a self satisfied dimwit at one of the major law firms where I have worked, the narrative was usually the same.
“Well, I have read a few books (or seen a few documentaries) about The Tuskegee Experiment. You know, a country that would purposefully infect innocent people with syphilis is capable of anything!”
Well, whenever I hear a variation of that line, I know that the person speaking never read any books, nor saw any documentaries, about the Tuskegee Study. Or if they did, they weren’t paying much attention.
So it comes to no surprise that apologists for ‘Hollywood’ Jeremiah Wright’s suggestion that the US Government (or the US of KKKA as he likes to call it) created the AIDS virus to kill off the black population often cite the example of the Tuskegee Experiment to justify the dubious hypothesis.
That a mental midget like Rosie O’Donnell would make the argument isn’t particularly surprising, either.
Despite the certainty of the book readers and documentary watchers, the fact is that no one was infected with syphilis as part of The Tuskegee Study. Not one. It never happened.
The study started in 1932 and was designed to track the progress of tertiary-stage syphilis among 399 black men who already had the condition. The men were lied to – told that they were getting treatment when in fact the doctors were simply studying the advancement of the disease.
There was no sinister agenda to kill off the subjects of the study, and the doctors involved were not motivated by any genocidal ambitions.
To be fair, this study was dreadful. It mistreated the men, lying to them and not giving them the promised treatment. I don’t defend the study, and any moral minded person would find the study and the way it was executed to be reprehensible.
But given that truth, we have to be fair and set the record straight: the US government and the medical professionals involved in The Tuskegee Study did not infect anyone with syphilis, or any other disease for that matter. It’s an untruth.
Shame on the Wrights and O’Donnell’s of the world for being so ignorant, or so duplicitous, to perpetuate this myth.
Folks who would like to learn more can start here.
Also of interest:
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Another thing: Rosie makes a reference to the Tuskegee experiments as giving syphilis to black men ‘for 40 years.’ Beyond the fact that nobody was deliberately infected with syphilis as part of the study, the reference to 40 years is disingenuous, also.
To set the record straight, the 399 men in the study were tracked for 40 years to study the advancement of the disease. They were studied over a period of 40 years, which isn’t to say that the government infected the men over 40 years.
I really suspect that Rosie speaks out of ignorance on the matter, and not deceit. But, you never know.
Vinnie Vegas:
Kudos, you’ve set the record straight on this matter and provided a link to prove your point with a backup for facts.
I’m not as nice as you are because I can’t believe anything else but that Rosie did have intentions to deceive. Check out her “mouth out of control patrol” records and you will note that she has been constant in delving out false information about our Govt. and much else; this particular issue will not be the end of her screeching out false proclamations.
Since The Ton of Fun O’Donnell stated these poor persons were infected with syphilis by our Govt. of course she had to be speaking out of ignorance with intent to cause dissent and harm since no such thing ever occurred. Her purpose is diabolical otherwise she could have easily researched before opening her big mouth and inserting her big feet.
The worse part of O’Donnell’s sick machinations is that others with off kilter personalities like hers believe her with a fervor therefore the gossip keeps her lies in the forefront and sadly make headlines. Some have far more important issues to address but it’s difficult to ignore a person who has the eyes and ears of most of the media.
NWberry,
Rosie is consistently wrong, which shows me that she has no commitment at all to getting the facts, or she is indeed a deceiver. Upon reflection, I see how she could be a bumper to bumper misinformation artist. She worships at the temple of her excesses, and has no need (and no capacity) for the truth.
Keep an eye on Ton of Fun Rosie.
Oh, I’ll bet my money that Rosie speaks out of the purest ignorance!
I was well aware of the truth on this one, and while you speak a technical truth, I could see how even a non-liberal could at least see the logic that such inhumane callousness could be capable of futher monsterous behavior. I, of course, don’t for a second believe there’s the slightest truth in rumors of an AIDS conspiracy. But people like Rosie reason with their emotions, and not their brains, so for them, the fact of such cruelty is enough to make the assertion valid.
Jaytee,
I don’t think someone can be intellectually honest and connect the dots between the facts of the Tuskegee Study and the prospect of engineering AIDS and deliberately infecting black people with the disease to pursue a genocidal agenda. It’s just not there.
Blacks were chosen for the study because at the time, syphilis disproportionately impacted the black community. Some of the medical staff in the study were black, in fact. While the study’s methods were reprehensible, the goal was to study the disease with the hopes of gathering data for treatment. That doesn’t justify it at all, but it does distinguish the goal from something akin to genocide.
I think you are correct that it takes a primarily emotional reaction, combined with ignorance, to create and connect these dots. I also think dubious conclusions like the ones Wright and Rosie come to satisfy a basic mental hangup they share. Indeed, I suspect if they are sincere, they are just incapable of any rational conclusion that doesn’t damn the USA.