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Rachel follows up on her reporting on the 'kill the gays' bill being considered in Uganda. Her show attempted to get some responses from the American legislators who have decided to inject themselves so deeply into African politics - with predictable results. Most of them either tried to wash their hands of their part in this absolutely horrid piece of proposed legislation or didn’t bother to respond at all. The scandal ridden John Ensign’s office said he was too busy screwing up the health care bill to give a response.

James Inhofe and Sam Brownback didn’t bother to respond, either. Don’t hold your breath waiting on those two knuckle-draggers, Rachel. I’m sure it will be a cold day in hell before either of them bother to tell the evil “librul” lesbian woman why they could care less if you were killed if you were unfortunate enough to live in Uganda, assuming this law gets passed.

Props to Rachel for keeping after this story. It has to be one of the most disgusting news items I’ve watched in a very long time and these C-Street wingers need to be held to account for their actions. It’s a shame the rest of the media is not giving this story the attention it deserves. They’re too busy chasing around the White House party crashers or Tiger Woods’ mistresses.

Transcript via Nexis Lexis below the fold.

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Conference on AIDS - Montreal June, 1989

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(Still the awkward silence and "not in my neighborhood")

In June of 1989, Montreal hosted the 5th annual International Conference on AIDS. A public awareness was painfully slow in coming, as was any medical breakthrough. Stigmas were well in place - it was still by and large considered a "gay disease" - treatment was at the "guinea pig" stage and it was still a struggle to get useful support.

The interesting correlation between this and the current state of Health Care is where the AMA had placed itself in the AIDS question. Crocodile tears of "oh how horrible" and much ersatz hand-wringing, but the true issue came out when a spokesman for the AMA declared "who is going to pay for this?"

And again, the price tag for human life is to be negotiated.

This piece, part of the CBS Radio Newsmark series first aired on June 11, 1989.


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TYT: Cure For Aids Discovered?

From The Young Turks Nov. 13, 2008 some good news for AIDS patients.