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Friday, December 07, 2007

AIDS Whitewash at the White House


About a week ago, I did a post on an op/ed done by Robert Knight about the AIDS epidemic, and how no one seems to want to talk about WHY people get AIDS--they only want to throw more money at it without examining the causes.

Because some liberals gave me (predictable) grief for being so cold-hearted as to say such a thing, a few days later I posted some startling statistics about AIDS spending.

Apparently yesterday a journalist attempted to ask some of these same questions at a White House press briefing, and received a similar "whitewash" treatment from the Bush administration spokesman.

From WorldNetDaily:

KINSOLVING: "Two domestic questions. The Media Research Center – with the Centers for Disease Control's statistics that HIV/AIDS in the U.S. is still a great deal higher among men who have sex with men …"

PERINO:: "Let's move on to the next question. I'm not even going to dignify…"

KINSOLVING: "No…"

PERINO: "I'm not, Les, unless you want to just move on altogether. What's your next question?"

KINSOLVING: "All right. In major cities like Washington, Chicago and San Francisco, there are reports that gay bathhouses facilitate…"

PERINO: "Okay, Keith, go ahead. Les, it's inappropriate…"

KINSOLVING: "Inappropriate?"

KINSOLVING: "AIDS isn't that…"

PERINO: "Just stop it, stop it."

Kinsolving's first question, which he wasn't allowed to finish asking, would have been:

"The Media Research Center – with the Centers for Disease Control's statistics that HIV/AIDS in the U.S. is still a great deal higher among men who have sex with men. Then should any AIDS officials be claiming that all Americans are equally at risk?"

There's a simple, elemental truth in life. If you keep ignoring the cause of a problem, chances are you're going to keep getting more of that problem.

Do we want to end AIDS, or would we rather continue sticking our heads in the sand?


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