Congresswoman: Obama wants to perform medical experiments on Central American children

by Ben Reilly Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:24 pm

Rep. Michelle Bachmann has a new theory about the unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America who have come in large numbers to the southern U.S. border: they are future victims of a liberal plot to use unwilling children for medical experiments.

It all starts with the case of Justina Pelletier, the teenage girl who was placed in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families because of a dispute between Boston Children's Hospital and her parents, who were backed by other doctors from Tufts Medical Center, over her medical diagnosis.

Last month, she was finally returned to her family and now Bachmann has introduced legislation called "Justina's Law" that would prohibit "federal funding for medical experimentation on a ward of the State."

The narrative created by Bachmann and others within the Religious Right about this case asserts that the Boston Children's Hospital had received a federal grant to study somatoform disorder which prompted doctors to diagnose Pelletier with that condition so that the state could take custody of her and then use her as a guinea pig in the hospital's medical experiments.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michele-bachmann-claims-president-obama-wants-use-unaccompanied-children-medical-experiments

by Original Quill Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:33 pm

Why Republicans Lie?

by Ben Reilly Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:38 pm

Original Quill wrote:Why Republicans Lie?

And how does anybody believe it? Smile

by Ben Reilly Sat Aug 02, 2014 7:50 am

Seriously, I want someone to explain to me how this shit is believed.

by Original Quill Sat Aug 02, 2014 6:05 pm

I've told you a million times, read Lakoff, Geo., Moral Politics. A cognitive linguist, Lakoff explains why, inter alia, the factual truth does not matter to conservatives. They talk more-or-less in folk stories that reify, and hence vindicate the moral system of their politics.

Conservatives have their scripts...and anything in the real world that appears to match those scripts, gets touted as such. Here the script would be something like: Liberals are devious (like us) and would take advantage of helpless little children to further their goals. They use their religious beliefs, science--the same religion that lies about global warming--to justify their mistreatment of these children.

The script becomes a story that vindicates everything that Michelle Bachmann has been spouting since she got into politics. To her, it's not a lie. It's a plausible interpretation. She profoundly mistrusts liberals, and she can't wait to put out this possible interpretation of truth, lest the evil she reports on goes any further. She's not dealing in speech truths, but speech acts.

How do you think we got into the war in Iraq? Same process. They weren't lies, they were speech acts, at best plausible interpretations.

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