$6 MILLION FOR NONSENSE!

March 14, 2009 Blog

According to the Associated Press, former President Bill Clinton earned $5.7 million in speaking honoraria in 2008.

And we are in the middle of an economic crises!

Today, I read in a blog that Ex President Bill Clinton claimed embryos were NOT fertilized and that it was therefore okay to use them for stem cell research.

I had difficulty believing that a Rhodes scholar and former President of the United States didn't know what every First Grader knows. An egg must be fertilized to become an embryo. When we eat eggs for breakfast, we do not eat baby chick embryos. If we discovered an embryo in an egg, we would probably decide to buy our groceries elsewhere.

According to the blog, Clinton made this statement on CNN's Larry King Live.

I decided that if this statement was true, it could be verified. I Googled the words, "Clinton," "Larry King," and "stem cell." One of the first results was a YouTube video clip of the interview, dated March 11, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmh9p1rlkQk
I watched the video in which Clinton stammered quite a bit, and he made the above statement more than once. I watched the video a second time and counted how often Clinton said that embryos are not fertilized. SIX TIMES !!!!!!

He was being interviewed by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent and a former candidate for President Barack Obama's Surgeon General, who didn't bother to correct Clinton's gross error.

Doug Powers www.dougpowers.com wrote in his blog, "You'd think that if anybody would know the rules of the fertilization process, it would be Bill Clinton. Sperm on egg = embryo. Sperm on dress = impeachment, no embryo."

But then Bill is well-known for his unusual definitions of everyday terminology.

Jill Stanek noted on her blog www.jillstanek.com that Clinton had made the same statement in an earlier Larry King Live broadcast on February 17. She quoted him as saying, "But this stem cell research, if the stem cells are frozen embryonic stem cells, if they are never going to be used to be fertilized, to bring a life into being, then I think making them available for medical research is the pro-life position and I honestly don't understand - I would understand it if we were going and raiding stem cell banks, where these stem cells were going to be used to actually fertilize eggs and have babies."