Ex-top doctor says he was censored

[Guest]

. . . .

 

[rgraham666]

Shrugs. Quelle surprise, eh.

I'm sometimes surprised the the current administration didn't found a Department of Truth a la Orwell. Since they are more concerned with Truth than reality.

 

[Guest]

. . . .

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Ex-top doctor says he was censored

Isn't that supposed to mean that he was a top before, but when being appointed first surgeon general he became Bush's bitch?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

God! I am so shocked that this traitor would make these kinds of serious accusations about the Bush Administration.

Well... not really. He's probably telling the truth.

 

[Guest]

. . . .

 

[S-Des]

I'm still just shaking my head.

Amazing.

Do you think this is the first administration to behave like that? I admit that their lists of bad behavior is growing by the day, but I seem to remember a Surgeon General being let go for committing the unpardonable sin of suggesting teens should masturbate rather than having unprotected sex. I know Reagan's administration was big on "Everybody's on the same page..." philosophy. There have been reports by medical, environmental, scientific groups that have gotten buried because they didn't agree with whatever administration was in charge since I started paying attention to politics. *shrug*

 

[Guest]

. . . .

 

[S-Des]

I'm not that naive, Des.

But this man is very anti-science, especially when it conflicts with his agenda. More so than any president in most AH members memories.

How can you still find some defense for this man-who-would-be-king? I mean really, even if it is just to say, "He's not so bad because there have been others who were just as bad."

Is that a defensible position? Does it matter that others may have shared some of the same horrible qualities? Shouldn't we be more concerned with what qualities the current administration has and what, if anything, we could be doing to fix them and ensure they do not happen again?

I don't remember defending him. I was just expressing surprise that you were amazed.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

It's long been a completely politicized position with no genuine puplic policy role. It's most often been used as a platform from which to promote nanny-statism. It should be abolished as a waste a money and almost an abuse of government. Given all that, if this guy didn't want to play ball with the administration's policy agenda he shouldn't have taken the job. Public whining now reveals a lack of integrity on his part.

 

[flavortang]

The news doesn't surprise me at all. Come on, Election '08! Big money! Big money!

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I'm shocked that you would attempt to bring sex into this issue.

Shocked, I tell you.

It wasn't me! Mr. Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of the Los Angeles Times did it! There're really only one way to interpret the expression "Ex-top".