Posted: 10/31/06

When is a lie not a lie?

By Ted Baehr and Tom Snyder

When is a lie not a lie?

According to America's liberal, secular elite, a lie is not a lie when it comes from the mouth of a Hollywood star with a terrible debilitating disease or injury. Or, when it comes from some other sympathetic victim, such as the left-wing parent of a dead soldier (Cindy Sheehan) or a left-leaning widow trying to push an obvious political agenda.

This week, in the last stages of this year's highly contested Congressional elections, liberals in Maryland and Missouri made campaign commercials featuring beloved star Michael J. Fox, who suffers from the debilitating disease of Parkinson's. In both ads, Fox spoke in favor of forcing all taxpayers to fund stem cell research using murdered unborn children, which is known by the euphemism "embryonic stem cell research." Of course, in neither ad did Mr. Fox use the term "embryo stem cell" or taxpayer funds, making it seem as if the opposition is against all stem cell research. Also, in his ad in a Maryland race, Mr. Fox said that the conservative Republican candidate was opposed to "the most promising stem cell research."

This last claim is the most egregious lie of all.

Embryonic stem cell research is not the "most promising" stem cell research. In fact, embryonic stem cell research has so far not resulted in one cure or one positive medical treatment for any disease or any medical problem.

Furthermore, adult stem cell research (which no Republican, conservative or pro-life candidate we know of opposes) has actually resulted in more than 80 different medical treatments.

The Fox ads also beg the question, Why is the government using any taxpayer money to fund any kind of research whatsoever, anyway? Shouldn't the private sector do that? As one of our conservative friends, Tracy Schreiber, says, "When the government pays for art, you get bad art. When the government pays for science, you get bad science."

So, the question arises, why is this little man spreading these vicious lies in such an emotionally manipulative manner? Has no one told him the truth? Or, is he just another loony lefty liberal?

Who knows?

It is clear, however, that the American voter needs to be very skeptical of all campaign ads in the mass media, but especially ads that come from the liberal wing of the political spectrum. For eight years, America suffered from the liberal lies spread by President Bill Clinton and his cronies, who got elected by telling lies to the voters (remember those middle class tax cuts they were supposed to give us?). Now, in this critical campaign season, not only do voters have to deal with liberal lies about the War in Iraq and the War on Islamic Terror, they also have to deal with campaign lies about the stem cell controversy and taxpayer funding for medical research.

In the 1930s, the National Socialist Workers Party under Adolf Hitler used popular movie stars to convince the German people to approve laws in favor of euthanasia as well as laws persecuting Jews. Eventually, this evil manipulation of popular culture resulted in mass murder and grisly scientific experiments on human beings.

Today, the national socialist liberals in America are using popular Hollywood celebrities like Michael J. Fox to promote not only euthanasia, but also the killing of unborn children and the grisly use of their bodies for scientific research.

That's why voters need to become media wise about how the mass media too often manipulates the truth. Two of the ways you can tell that you're being manipulated is by asking if the campaign ad you are seeing or hearing (or the movie for that matter) leaves out important facts or tries to affect your vote by appealing to your emotions instead of appealing to the facts (as the ads with Michael J. Fox clearly do).

Using simple rules like these can help you navigate through the mass media wasteland.

For more information on how to become media-wise, please don't hesitate to contact us at MOVIEGUIDEŽ at www.movieguide.org or by calling 1-800-577-6684. We're here to help you and your family, friends and colleagues.

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