Posted on 09/18/2011 8:43:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A daring Michele Bachmann appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and faced grilling questions on the HPV vaccine, gay marriage and homosexuality.
As the liberal host of the late night talk show thanked the GOP presidential hopeful for being a “good sport,” he said, “We’ve done a million jokes. Hopefully, you haven’t been watching any of them.”
However, soon thereafter Leno appeared unusually serious as he threw questions at Minnesota Congresswoman Bachmann.
Leno’s first question Friday evening concerned Bachmann’s attacks on Texas Gov. Rick Perry for supporting the HPV vaccine. “Is that bad? It’s a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer,” asked Leno.
“Well I think so,” Bachmann replied. “The concern is that there are potentially side effects that can come with something like that. But it gives a false sense of assurance to a young woman when she has that, that if she’s sexually active that she doesn’t have to worry about sexually transmitted diseases.”
Perry signed an executive order in 2007 requiring Texas middle-school girls to get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted HPV. The order wasn’t implemented though.
“I’m not sure it’s a sense of assurance. It can prevent cervical cancer, correct?” Leno interrupted.
“It’s something that could potentially have dangerous side effects,” Bachmann replied.
Referring to Bachmann’s meeting with an unidentified woman after last week’s GOP debate in Florida who said her daughter suffered “mental retardation” as a result of the HPV vaccine, Leno asked, “Do you regret not getting this woman’s name and address?”
“I don’t know who this person was,” Bachmann replied. “I wasn’t speaking as a doctor, I wasn’t speaking as a scientist, I was just relating what this woman said.”
Questions on homosexuality and gay marriage followed. “That whole ‘pray the gay away’ thing, I don’t get it,” Leno said, referring to her family’s Christian counseling clinic.
Bachmann jokingly pointed to her hair and said, “When I heard that I really thought it was like kind of a mid-life crisis line, like, ‘Pray away the gray.’” But Leno wasn’t in a mood to joke, it seemed.
Bachmann defended the clinic saying it did not discriminate. But she didn’t hesitate to repeat her position that marriage is between a man and a woman.
“It sounds like, if two gay people want to get married, that’s their business, that doesn’t concern us,” Leno responded. “Why is that even an issue? I know gay families that are married, they have children. And they’re wonderful people. It doesn’t seem like they shouldn’t be allowed to be happy. But I’m not going to change your mind on that one.”
Leno also asked about Bachmann’s opposition to raising the debt ceiling. Bachmann said it wasn’t an attack on President Barack Obama, and that she would have taken the same stand even if it was George W. Bush.
Pressed on her slipping down in the polls after Perry’s entrance in the race, Bachmann acknowledged it “changes the dynamic.” “But we’re in for the marathon. We’re not in for the sprint,” she added.
Leno then asked her who her running mate would be if she won the Republican nomination. “You’re taken. You don’t want a cut in pay,” Bachmann replied, teasing him. Leno replied, “Well, we’d probably have an argument over the gay thing.”
I know she has to hold back on national television, but I wish she really tore him a new one instead of saying, “yeah” over and over.
The only person that got torn a new one was Bachmann. Everyone has been talking about how Leno busted her. She’s a joke.
If anyone saw that interview, it was not good for Bachmann. It was very uncomfortable and Leno was being a real hard ass. Not any laughs in it like other politicians that go on there. I don’t think it left a good impression on the people who watch that type of show about Bachmann.
Jay Leno is a complete POS. May he rot in hell!
She had potential.
But also proved an old adage: Don’t vote for anyone from MN.
I was really disappointed when Leno was gushing over homosexuals having families, etc.....I wish she would have said something like what a shame for those selfish parents to deny a child their biological mother or father.
Why would Leno think is is fine for people to built an “artificial” family which denies teleological facts of nature and mocks and belittles mothers or fathers and turns children into commodities to be sold or used in a selfish, inhumane way.
Then she should have asked Leno if he had a mother and father and how he would feel if he was taken away from his biological mother like he was a thing to be used so that two people could pretend they are what they never can be.
All ethics say it is evil to use people as a means to an end and that is what they are doing by playing house. It is evil.
Doesn’t sound like she stood up to him on the gay “marriage” question—or if she did, this article doesn’t record what she said. Annoying either way.
She's actually right about HPV vaccine why mandatory. Even Rush Limbaugh not criticizing her about her HPV assessment. What's the mortality rate of cervical cancer? There were 759 women died of cervical cancer in 2008. Compare to how many people getting killed in vehicular accident?
“I’m not sure it’s a sense of assurance. It can prevent cervical cancer, correct?” Leno interrupted.
“It’s something that could potentially have dangerous side effects,” Bachmann replied.”
Why doesn’t she answer the question? She screwed up, someone prepared her responsive talking points and they’re worn thin. She sounds like a broken record: “Side effects. I’m not a doctor. I’m not a scientist, blah blah blah.” But she won’t answer the simple question: can it prevent cervical cancer?
I didn’t see it, and don’t know much about the “pray away the gay”. But my response would have been something like “I have friends that are gay and they are fine with it. This clinic is for people that don’t want to be gay, want to change, and believe that God can help them. And I believe that with ANY stuggle that you have, God is there to give you guidance and strength.”
You make it sound like homosexuals are stealing babies.
Rush did call her out when she claimed Gardesil causes mental retardation. There was no reason for Bachmann to head down that road.
It’s unfortunate. Bachmann is one of us.
She needed a larger sample than just one.
Good for Mrs. Bachmann. We are being over vaccinated. Allopathic medicine puts too much stock in the germ theory. Toxemia is the real culprit in disease and our bodies inability to fight off pathogens. From stress to food toxins to environmental toxins and finally, the toxins in vaccines that our given, now throughout life.
It is no wonder why there are so many new syndromes, childhood diabetes, chronic depression, sexual infertility, hyperactivity, chronic respiratory infections. All these disorders are costing our country and the world too much money and resources. I am happy that she is fighting back. For some reason, the intelegencia within our medical profession are unwilling to connect the dots. The great naturopaths a couple hundred year ago knew the reasons for disease and wrote, extensively about them. Maybe it is they can push a new vaccine or some new wonder drug. It is really getting out of hand.
It is good that someone is fighting back, even if it is hurting her.
The National Cancer Institute reports that about 12000 women a year are diagnosed with cervical cancer in the US; about 4000 a year die from it. So that is about a 33% mortality rate in the US. Worldwide, about 450,000 are diagnosed each year, and about 233,000 die, so that is closer 50%. Cervical cancer is the #2 cause of cancer deaths for women in the world.
The increase is also consistent with the increase of soy consumption. In Asian countries soy is only use as a condiment and most is fermented to neutralize toxins, such as goitergens and endrocrine disruptors.
Check your labels. Almost all packaged for has soybean oil ot soy flour or soy lecithin. Not to mention the soy milk that flies off super market shelves in the U.S.
Perry made a decision based on the fact that Gardisil would protect a large percentage of people exposed to HPV from getting genital warts and cervical cancer. I urge you to google ‘genital warts photos’ and look at what HPV can do.
He decided that the executive order would force insurance companies and more importantly Medicare to pay the cost of a very expensive drug. The drug had been thoroughly tested and had a stellar performance record with very few side effects, none of which where mental retardation. If he had made the vaccine ‘recommended’ with an ‘opt in’ it would NOT be covered by insurance.
I urge you to consider what the effects would be of a daughter of yours falling in love with a young man who may have been exposed to HPV and not shown symptoms, as most people do not, they marry and he spreads the disease to her. She years later is diagnosed with cervical cancer and like more than a third of women with this form if cancer, she dies a terrible and painful death. Three shots at twelve years of age would prevent this type of horror.
They are also giving It to boys now. I will not hesitate to have my sons vaccinated against this disease.
There may be some truth to the idea that we are over vaccinated, but if you have ever lost a child, you would do anything you could to prevent disease from taking another. We now have the reintroduction of many previously eradicated diseases thanks to rampant third world illegal immigration and parents who believe more in the idea of toxicity than in the reality of killer diseases.
Your post makes some excellent points.
Homosexuality is a corruption of natural sexuality and for a child it is a total corruption of their need for family.
It is absolutely a horrible shame for any child to have their need for a real mother and a real father mocked in such a sick and perverse fashion.
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