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Post Hands Frist a Photo Op

Bill Frist: A Doctor at Heart
“Well, your first patient was a dog,” [Frist's wife] Karyn said. In medical school, Frist cut out a dog’s heart and held it in his palm. It continued to beat for a slippery minute.

That’s truly horrifying. Just stop and think about that for a second, folks. We’re talking about the heart of a living — probably otherwise healthy — animal. He cut it out. He held it, still beating, in his hand for a minute. Until the dog died.

This is something noble??

This is something he’s proud of??

To my way of thinking, you might as well be talking about the living heart of a child ripped from its chest, the child left to die. Believe me, I’m painfully aware that the majority of people don’t feel as strongly as I do about the value of an animal’s life. Still, lives taken in the name of “research” (a dubious process to begin with, in my opinion) should be honored. To me, when someone as repellant as Bill Frist starts talking about the animals he’s killed, it’s like watching a monstrous psycho-killer toss around the battered corpse of an infant.

Yeah. It’s that bad.

Sigh.

I presume Frist has saved people’s lives through heart surgery. That really is a good thing. So… there’s that, at least.

Anyway… the whole point of this Washington Post article is to give Bill Frist some free reputation-building space and a nice little photo op. “Here’s Bill Frist in scrubs listening to a gorilla’s heartbeat at the zoo. What a guy!”

What the hell is THAT all about??

Why is the Post being all warm and fuzzy with Bill Frist??

Screw Frist’s extra-curricular gorilla activities.

Let’s talk about how he wants to control what you watch on television.

Let’s talk about how Frist wants to make bigotry against homosexuals a part of the Constitution.

Let’s talk about how truly awful it would be if somehow this man became president.