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10/12/2004

The John Boy sideshow-carnival-big-tent revival rolls on

(via Drudge)

The John Boy Edwards carnvial sideshow reached more ludicrous proportions in Iowa on Monday as he promised to make the blind see and the lame walk.

Edwards Stem Cell Vision: 'We will stop juvenile diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other debilitating diseases... When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.' Edwards made the unprecedented campaign promises during 30-minute speech at Newton High School gym in Newton, Iowa...

I guess we should pay attention when John Boy makes such pronouncements, considering he does have the ability to channel the spirits of dead infants.

You have to wonder if Edwards has added up the additional health-care costs his excessive junk-science litigation has cost the rest of us. Perhaps if his brand of excessive litigation had been scaled back a bit, we would already have cures for these ailments.

Not everyone was amused with John Boy playing fast and loose with medical science. Senate Majority Leader and heart surgeon Bill Frist had some choice words for everyone's favorite ambulance chaser.

Frist, a Republican from Tennessee, called Edwards' remark "crass" and "shameful," and said it gave false hope that new treatments were imminent.

"I find it opportunistic to use the death of someone like Christopher Reeve -- I think it is shameful -- in order to mislead the American people," Frist said. "We should be offering people hope, but neither physicians, scientists, public servants or trial lawyers like John Edwards should be offering hype.

"It is cruel to people who have disabilities and chronic diseases, and, on top of that, it's dishonest. It's giving false hope to people, and I can tell you as a physician who's treated scores of thousands of patients that you don't give them false hope."

But, why would anyone listen to a decorated heart surgeon, when they can listen to the incoherent street-preaching of a foaming-at-the-mouth, ambulance-chasing scumsucking asshat like John Boy?

The Cranky Neocon has his own take on John Boy & Lurch's supernatural powers (via Right on Red).

10/13 UPDATE:

Froggy has some thoughts on John Boy as well - he says candidate, heal thyself.