SHOULD WE KEEP JENNY’s
VIEW OFF “THE VIEW?”
A Cranky opinion for
Cranky Opinion Saturday
The following is the opinion of a
cranky old man. Opposing opinions are
welcome (wrong, but welcome) but please, no name calling, and that means you,
you big stupid head!
Here is a
rip roaring issue that I woke up to this morning; Jenny McCarthy is replacing
Elizabeth Hasslebeck on “The View.”
Holy who
gives a fig!
Apparently
Ms. McCarthy has an opinion that is counter to prevailing medical science. Jenny believes that early childhood vaccines
are responsible for increased cases of children with autism. Medical experts fear that if she expresses
her view, thousands of young mothers will follow Jenny off the cliff of skepticism
and not vaccinate their children.
Because of this, they predict thousands of children will die.
Medical
experts have disproven beyond a shadow of doubt that vaccinations are not the
cause of the rise in autism cases in this country. Who do I believe, medical experts who say it is a proven fact that vaccinations do not cause autism, or Jenny
McCarthy, who though she is not an idiot, she plays one on TV.
A fact is simply something that has yet to be disproven. Doctors and big pharm have everything to lose
if it is proven that their vaccinations cause autism. Is their research flawed; probably not, but
there is plenty of incentive to disprove the theory that Jenny and others
ascribe to.
Have the
experts learned why autism is so common today?
I don’t think so. Perhaps it is
just more accurate diagnoses, or maybe something has changed from how we raise our
infants.
One change is the number of vaccinations, and the early age for these vaccinations.
One change is the number of vaccinations, and the early age for these vaccinations.
It scares me
to think that immature brains are subjected to vaccines for multiple diseases
before they are even six months old. We
have very few cases today (make that zero) of polio. Maybe we should hold off on that vaccine
until a child is several years old; ditto for rubella, measles, chickenpox, and
whooping cough. I would suggest whooping
cough vaccine first as that is currently a fairly common illness which is very
dangerous for infants.
I am not a
doctor and neither is Jenny, but doctors are not gods, and their proven science
changes often. In the past they fought
for bloodletting, early amputations, electric shock therapy, and lobotomies. If anything, this fear that Jenny McCarthy’s
opinions, if allowed to be expressed on “The View,” will cause the deaths of
thousands of infants makes me more wary of their position on early vaccination
injections for infants.
I don’t
believe we need to fear opinions in this country, and “The View” is just a dumb
opinion show. It is for
entertainment. Hell, Whoopi talked about
her theory that the 9-11 attack on the World Trade Center was done by our own government to make
an excuse to attack Iraq, or reelect George Bush or some nonsense, and no one
voiced any concern that she would turn “The View’s” vast audience into a mass
of idiotic conspiracy nuts.
If the soup
of vaccinations delivered to infants is good safe policy, I really don’t think
we need to silence the Jenny McCarthy’s of our country. I am more worried about why medical experts
are worried about the opinions of a blonde entertainer who once asked if
“Buffalo Wings” really come from buffalos.
Besides, she
is hot!
The preceding has been the opinion of
a cranky old man, and not necessarily that of management…Mrs. Cranky
Agree with you totally - why should they be worried about a blond entertainer. Obviously feel very threatened.
ReplyDeleteYou're right.
ReplyDeleteShe is hot.
She's obviously being added to the show to lure in a bunch of old "60-ish" retired guys who have nothing else to do all day but watch TV. It's all about ratings.
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laughing at low and slow.
ReplyDeleteHow stupid--buffalo wings could NOT possibly come from buffaloes, they're much too small to get them off the ground!!
ReplyDeleteOne does think they protest too much. I thought it was that other blonde entertainer who dumbly ask if chicken of the sea came from chickens?
ReplyDeleteI don't watch The View and am not familiar with Jenny McCarthy, but that idea about childhood inoculations causing these problems was put forth by a British researcher who has since been completely discredited and drummed out of the medical research community. He actually made up his statistics. If Jenny still believes this she's a moron capable of harming thousands of children and shouldn't be given a megaphone to spew such nonsense.
ReplyDeleteIf she is entertaining and controversial, I don't see anything precluding her from doing a wonderful job for The View.
ReplyDeleteI don't watch The View, but I have a basic feel for what I think of it, and that is that entertainment and controversy has a place for many viewers, so why not put the two together like testing pasta? Throw it out there and see if it sticks...if they get the viewers, good for them. If they don't, let them suck wind. lol
Let Jenny spew! I don't think she will be espousing her vaccination Views 1/5/365. I seriously doubt that Sherri Shepherd persuaded people to think the world is flat.
ReplyDeleteI am no longer a Viewer. That stopped way back before Rosie O'Donnell. In the beginning, those biddies were kind of amusing. Then they got more mean-spirited by the year. I washed my hands of them, and feel much cleaner because of it.
I don't watch the View bunch of bitchy ass women who quite frankly need to get laid. If people out in TV land actually listen and take advice from a former playmate you need to reconsider what you should be doing with your own brain cells.
ReplyDeleteI was seriously summing up my feelings about all you were saying and then you got me with that last line. Funny!
ReplyDeleteI don't think there is any need for panic yet. As an occasional lunch time viewer of the View, they'd lose me quickly if autism and vaccinations are constant topics of conversation. Jenny has already made her rounds with that and whoever she's influenced...well.
I don't know much about her, except (now) that she's hot! but I just see her as a mother who loves her kid. The jury is out.
I personally don't think her nutty (and influential) anti vac opinions should be rewarded with weekly TV exposure, but she is a good entertainer/presenter and I'm sure she'll be a hit. I find it funny/interesting that they always try to replace like with like when it comes to women on TV. Pretty blonde host has gone? Get another blonde one who looks similar!
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