The American Thinker has published an invaluable piece by an expert physician on the subject of embryonic and adult stem cell research and results that deconstructs the substance of the claims made by Michael J. Fox's ads for Democrat candidates.

As revealed by the below scholarly scientific piece, the reason the MSM can't defend the substance of Fox's claims is because his claims, as pointed out by Rush Limbaugh, are not true and the real agenda issue in this imbroglio is abortion, not stem cell research per se, or the bogus lie that the Hearing-Challenged Limbaugh "made fun" of Fox's particular disability.

See more DeVine Gamecock commentary as well as expert witness supporting excerpts and link to full article below...

Dr. Mary L. Davenport in the American Thinker says:

"Mr. Fox and his ads’ sponsors are guilty of conflating embryonic stem cell research, which the GOP candidates and many Americans oppose for destroying a human life in the name of curing other people’s diseases, with stem cell research in general, which includes adult stem cell research and umbilical cord blood stem cell research."

As we have seen, the MSM, with few exceptions, has avoided any talk of the substance of the claims, choosing instead to demonize Rush Limbaugh for daring to question claims by a disabled person and question whether the disabled person is acting in accordance with his prior admitted conduct when in a persuasive role, i.e. to go off his medications, given that Fox does not usually show such severe effects of Parkinson's in his frequent public appearances and in his role on "Boston Legal".

But the other reason their is no MSM defense of the claims is that the real reason that the Left has made embryonic stem cells their cause celeb is because embryos are made available by abortions, and abortion is the issue that defines the Left.

Dr. Davenport continues

"The only limits in question are on federal funding of new embryonic stem cell lines, requiring the sacrifice of new embryos. Private and state-funded research (California voters are spending six billion dollars borrowing money to fund this) is ongoing. The implicit claim that research based on new embryos is “the most promising” is absurd, completely unsupported by the scientific literature, and an insult to voters, based as it is on the assumption that they are incapable of understanding the issue. Too stupid to tell the difference, is the elitist assumption underlying this campaign.

Flim-flam is a charitable description. Why would federally-funded research be more promising than state- and privately-funded research? And on what possible basis can the claim be made that embryonic stem cell research is more promising than adult stem cell research?

The plain fact is that embryonic stem cell research is proving to be a bust. There are currently 72 therapies showing human benefits using adult stem cells and zero using embryonic stem cells. Scientifically-minded readers can review this medical journal article on the status of adult stem cell research. Adult stem cell therapies are already being advertised and promoted while no such treatments are even remotely in prospect for embryonic stem cell research.

The fact is that adult stem cells have already produced remarkable cures, whereas embryonic stem cells have failed. This should come as no great surprise to anyone with a background in high school biology..."

Read the whole American Thinker piece.

The fact is that the Left is desperate to find a way to combat moral objections to abortion and they think that if they can make embryonic stem cells a political issue in the curing of diseases, they can defend abortion as producing life saving "products"!

These people have no shame. They will lie to sufferers of diseases and exploit them with false hope. They will lie about anyone that dares to contest the content of claims made by their carefully chosen victims supposedly immune from criticism. They will lie about the substance of issues. basically the Left Lies. That's what they do. And they expect that they will not be challenged given the many decades of media monopoly they enjoyed. The key word being "enjoyed" with the "ed".

They no longer enjoy that monopoly and with courageous conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and his 20 million dittohead army, they cannot count on not having their lies challenged even when they exploit the disabled to spout the lies.

We won't be holding our breath for the MSM to come to the rescue of Limbaugh even though he is deaf. You see Limbaugh opposes abortion, i.e. the sacrament of the Left's secular religion.

Over at Redstate a poster asked why their isn't more emphasis on Cord Blood research. I advised that  Cord Blood Stem cell research requires birth not abortion. The politicization of embryonic stem cell research is a cover for the advancement of the abortion agenda. The Left desperately wants to legitimize abortion as life saving rather than life taking. Abortions provide the "work product" for embryonic research. Birth's provide umbilical cords which are to the abortion lobby what a cross is to Dracula.

Rush commented on recent MSM history to put the MJ Fox incident in context:

"Let's review some obvious recent history. The media in this country lied about hurricane Katrina and the aftermath -- and they gave themselves Pulitzer Prizes for doing so. They lie constantly about the status of the Iraq war. They lied about Karl Rove in the Valerie Plame matter. They not only lied about Bush's National Guard records, they engaged in a conspiracy to create forged documents to further what they knew was a lie.

The Drive-By Media lies constantly about the economy. They lie about our judicial nominees. They lie about John Bolton. They lie about Donald Rumsfeld. They lie about Condoleezza Rice. They lie about Dick Cheney. They will lie about anybody who gets in their way. They lie about Halliburton. They lie about oil profits. They lie about tax cuts and how they are effective. They lie about practically everything. They carry the water for the Democrat Party. They carry the water for liberal elites, for anti-capitalists in the environmentalist movement and elsewhere. They carry the water for the appeasement crowd, the socialist elites in Western Europe. When someone stands up to them and questions them in their tactics, they try to intimidate and destroy.

Just think. Think about the last three days. There are literally hundreds of stories over the last three days about me. They're not focused on the phony science involving embryos. They're not focused on any aspect of the issue that the ad that Michael J. Fox produced attempts to persuade people about. They're not focusing on it. I wonder why? Because they know it's not a winning issue. The only way it's a winning issue is if nobody stands up to the ad. The only way it's a winning issue if nobody challenges the lie and the misrepresentation that they put forth in the ad. For three days, we've had news stories about me. No focus on the phony science involving the embryos." - Rush Limbaugh

Originally posted at Red State.

Read DeVine-Gamecock at www.race42008.com as well.

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan