Posted on 09/15/2005 10:04:50 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
Patch Adams: Bush 'fascist' 14/08/2005 12:27 - (SA)
Lima - A US doctor known for his signature use of "laughter therapy" and social activism used his acceptance speech for a health care award to blast President George Bush and materialism in society.
Dr Hunter "Patch" Adams, who was the inspiration for the 1998 movie starring Robin Williams, was awarded the first ever Excellence in Health Care Prize presented by the Lima-based Global Organisation for Excellence in Health.
The organisation is sponsoring an international health care conference in Lima next week.
Adams, 60, with a gray waist-length ponytail streaked blue, expressed "shame for our fascist president," referring to Bush, and told reporters that the only way global health will improve is if "we stop worshipping money."
Adams expressed his disgust with war in Iraq, offering his sympathy for the "unfortunate soldiers who are serving corporations" there.
"Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty," said Adams who has worked as a physician for 35 years.
"My work is to end violence, and to bring harmony to people," Adams said, repeatedly expressing his repulsion for society's preoccupation with "superficial" concerns, like "sports and Paris Hilton" hotel heiress and reality series star.
"It's humiliating that a person who kicks a ball makes more money than a school teacher," Adams said.
Adams was wrapping up a five-week trip to Peru - his third in the past three years - during which he travelled to the northern Amazon city of Iquitos, where he visited prisons, orphanages and Aids clinics.
"They had every reason to be sad and angry, yet people were instantly friendly, engaging and giving," said Adams who has visited many poverty-stricken or war-affected areas throughout the world.
He doesn't touch Bush with his comments. But he depreciates his own standing with his comments, proving he's just another garden variety leftwing barking moonbat.
How is our President a fascist? I swear this country is split in half. My grandfather who faught in WWII as a doctor is now roling in his grave he knew what a damn fascist was.
He helped over 20k Jews that a true fascist tried to eliminate. I just do not understand our country today. I just dont.
Like Robert Bork or Santa Claus? ;-)
GET A LAUGH:
http://www.patchadams.org/patch/diary/
This guy is on par with Cindy!
Hey Patch-- If Bush was a fascist, you wouldn't be able to say he was a fascist.
patch adams sounds like a porn name. Robin Williams?? Oh please.
so Patch over there didnt take any money for the film whatsoever?
I am personally going to kick this mans ass when next we meet.
I can barely digest it. There's plenty in every posting.
FR never made his top ten websites?
Patch's Prescription: 10 Web Sites
1. FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
2. The Foundation Center
3. Jim Hightower
4. Nonviolence Web
5. Alternative Medicine Homepage
6. School for Designing A Society
7. Institute for Global Communications
8. The Positive Futures Network
9. Intentional Communities Web
10. Z Communications
I no longer trust anyone with a beard or a ponytail.
there's some real good ones around still
Just ask Charlie Daniels
If Bush was a fascist, Adams would be dead.
I can't remember where I read this (National Review I think), but someone stated that in the future, everybody will be a fascist for 15 minutes (or everybody will have there 15 minutes of Nazism, something like that). The left has been tossing the fascism trope around so much, the word has lost meaning. Just another tool to use politically.
Without money there is no health care. Pretty simple really.
I could have written your post myself!
You should peek at what he reads...
http://www.patchadams.org/patch/library/
You should peek at what hes PROPOSING to fix the troubled Coast:
http://www.patchadams.org/patch/diary/
"Right now, as of Tuesday September 6, we in Gesundheit are in the process of making a commitment to take clowns, aid, and relief to places in the south. As a very poor organization, we need your help. If you can send a financial donation, please mail it to:
· Patch Adams, Katrina Donation
· 6855 Washington Boulevard
· Arlington, Virginia 22213"
I think I might need to evacuate Mississippi -- bad things are comin' ...
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