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.”
That’s what most people say after they meet a candidate. That’s why candidates get out and shake hands and talk to actual people. They are professionals at making people come away thinking, “wow, he/she is very, very impressive.”
Sorry to be you.
You should allow people to listen to other people
INSTEAD of bowing down to RINO Perry and MERCK
and their lobbyists.
thank you. you are correct.
MERCK, Perry and PerryBOTs will be responsible
for thousands of women with cervical cancer who
now feel they DO NOT NEED PAP smears.
This is false security because MERCK, Perry and
his BOTs claim the vaccine PROTECTS against
cervical cancer. That is a lie.
You PerryBOTs ought to have helped FIRE DEPARTMENTS
in Texas instead of making it difficult for them.
Instead, you have wasted YOUR TIME and GOOD WILL
trying to sell Texan children as lab rats.
and then trying to cover THAT up.
Shame on you drowning in your denial.
LOL..... a million comedians starving to death and you’re trying to be funny.
Only mistake? ONLY MISTAKE????
It is about lives. More people die from HPV related cancers than from any form of side effects, particularly from this drug which has a better record than virtually ANY vaccine on the market. End of story.
I am not a shill for Merck I own none of their stock, do not work for them, and do not know any one that works for them. I did own stock in Bristol Meyers but sold it last year.
Perry had good intentions and went about it in the wrong way. Bachman’s intentions are not good. They do not lead to informed consent, freedom, or parental choice. It also leads her to look like an uninformed zealot.
I have not decided who I will vote for. Here in Ohio, by the time I get to vote in the primary it is almost certain to be inconsequential anyway. That being said, I would vote for Bachman, Perry, Cain, Santorum, even Gingrich before I would vote for Romney. This Gardasil issue is irrelevant on every level and helps ONLY Obama. Bachman should dump it fast. I am not the least bit sorry to be me. I believe that I have lead a good life and try to take things as they come. I wouldn't trade places with anybody. It is unfortunate that you would deign to decide that your life is better than mine. It is condescending and inappropriate
I have no idea what Perry's stand on Fire Departments is. I could care less. My stand on Fire Departments may be the same or it may be different. None the less, my analogy is correct.
The candidates screaming about Gardasil LOOK STUPID! It is about the millions of unemployed and the disaster in the White House and which candidate has the best ideas to fix the economy.
Gardasil is a drug that has been tested for over a decade and has gone through all the necessary steps to bring it to market. The regulatory processes are the most stringent in the entire World. Probably more stringent than necessary. Gardasil helps to protect against a deadly communicable disease that causes enormous pain and cost to society.
If Perry had pushed for voluntary use, for which it already was approved, insurance and Medicaid would not pay for the drug. That would leave parents who could not afford the exorbitant cost UNABLE TO DECIDE TO GET IT! Thereby REDUCING their CHOICES! If they decided NOT to get vaccinated they needed only sign an opt out. Regardless, the legislature in Texas over rode Perry and have decided to side with the fear mongers. So be it.
I am unashamed about my position on this topic and Perry should be unashamed as well.
My condolences on your personal tragedy. I can’t imagine what it is like to have to deal with such a situation.
However that does not change the science and valid questions surrounding Gardasil and how it has been marketed. I find it repulsive that a pharmaceutical companies prey on parent’s love and desire to protect their children, abusing those emotions misrepresent their products.
This is an important drug that can help to reduce a large percentage of HPV related diseases.
Perry gave parents an opt out. An opt in was already available. An opt out would require that a persons insurance pay for the drug increasing choice and freedom not lessening it.
Once again you are conflating science with politics. If you are interested, read through posts by myself, hamboy, diogenes, and Sola Veritas - including linked articles.
Thanks.
Have you found this chart anywhere else? I keep getting a resource error.
If parents wanted to opt out they could. as it stands now If they wanted to opt in they would have to pay. Many people can not afford the cost so they have no choice. Perry offered an alternative that offered a choice, opt out or get the shots and have it paid for by insurance or Medicaid. This gives more freedom than the alternative.
If you want to opt out good, do so. As it stands, because of the Texas legislature those who want this protection for their children, but can not afford it, have no choice. How is that a winning argument? It isn't. It just makes Conservatives look like heartless, unscientific, jerks.
You are a very confused RINOphilic grasshopper.
Never the less, your arguments are not enlightening. They are not productive and they are not supported by the acts on record. We pay billions and billions a year to over see the FDA and CDC. They give Gardasil high ratings. Merck is attempting to save lives and make a profit. nothing wrong with that. Drug companies and their research have driven life expectancies to double over the past century. We all have benefited from their efforts. Your assumptions of my politics and your personal attacks are unwarranted. I can not help the fact that you are not capable of understanding the idea that a mandate with an opt out increases freedom and informed consent because without a mandate large portions of the population would not be able to afford the vaccine.
They do....they destroy at least one biological connection and use a child as a means for an artificial end. You can never use people as a means and be ethical....it is evil.
It is why Marxism is so evil....they ignore individual needs for the collective...and because in their moral relativist world—they (those in power) decide life and death and can eliminate those who don’t conform to their state of slavery.
Homosexuals are playing god in the artificial creation of a child—mocking Natural Law and God’s laws. It is evil to remove a child from their natural world—intentionally. It is one thing for orphans to exist by accident—quite another to have it intentionally imposed on them and a forced non-biological connection which removes meaning and connection from that very child’s life.
You are making a child the object of some selfish adult need.
The idea that you can create “human” beings by unnatural environments—and expect the same results by removing their genetic rights from them intentionally, is evil and a incredibly SELFISH act that is evil.
It comes directly from Marx and the Brave New World and elimination of the family unit. You can not remain human and remove that biology which makes you so. It will create a sick, sick society....devoid of humanity.
Remove biological meaning from children and you remove their dignity as a human being and create a meaningless world which mocks God, the true designer. You don’t create children and disregard their fundamental rights to a biological mother and father.
Their biology is part of the great joys and happiness that occur in life. It is the teleological reason for how human beings are designed. Stupid hippies should understand the importance of nature and nature’s laws. Although their minds are so drugged out, I am sure they have no cogent thoughts in their empty heads.
The 2006 population of women in the US per the census was 151,795,031.
Number of cervical cancer cases diagnosed in 2005 per the CDC was 11,999.
Therefore, 00.07904% of women were diagnosed with cervical cancer that year.
The number of deaths by cervical cancer in 2005 were 3,924.
Gardasil does not protect against cervical cancer.
It might protect for some short time against some HPV.
It has side effects, some serious.
The Gardasil death rate is .0125% .
PEOPLE SHOULD CHOOSE WISELY.
NO MORE RINOs. NO MORE PerryCARE.
RINOphilic grasshooper ... ROFL
I needed the laugh.
Yes, it doesn't protect against all instances of this cancer, just a vast majority. It does not protect against all HPV related causes of genital warts, just the vast majority. It does not cure any disease, but vaccines protect against diseases they do not cure any of them.
On the non vaccination side we have exactly ZERO proof that anybody has been seriously injured or killed by this Vaccine. that is zero out of sixteen million plus.
Your position is causing confusion and undue concern for others. Diseases kill, Vaccines protect against diseases.
The drug industry has done more for the health of society than any other industry. They have particularly helped the poorest among us.
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