Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 So, we had senator Akin talking about legitimate rape, and now we have another senator from Tennessee, Stacey Campfield, saying that AIDS is virtually impossible to contract through heterosexual sex. He blames the whole epidemic on a guy screwing a monkey. Why are these guys speaking about things they obviously are supremely ill-informed about? And...they are representing entire states full of people?? Here's a link to the story. <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/26/gop-lawmaker-virtually-impossible-to-get-aids-through-heterosexual-sex/#.UDRBzIE0thk.facebook" target="_blank">http://www.rawstory.com/rs/201...facebook</a>
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder So I'm guessing you had a hard time posting this. Those darn monkeys won't sit still for much.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Oh my. This guy is a genuine idiot. Here's his annotated wiki page: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Campfield" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...ampfield</a> He narrows the AIDS issue down even further. This jackass "believes" it was an AIRLINE PILOT that had sex with a monkey, and then, well, it just went bananas from there. But it isn't just the AIDS issue. Read the wiki page. Where do these guys COME from??? The danger lies within folks, not in some tent in Pakistan.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder And if you'll notice, this candidate for all time stupid politician made these comments SEVEN months ago.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I remember hearing that airline pilot/monkey story years and years ago.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "So I'm guessing you had a hard time posting this. Those darn monkeys won't sit still for much." LOL!! Yeah, I kept getting a time out error, so I guess it submitted several times...sorry. Darn monkeys...
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 OH, and wow...reading the wiki page about him...what a nutcase! The death certificates for aborted fetuses? Trying to join the black caucus? Then things about illegal immigrants, people on public assistance, gays, etc. He really has the priorities of the Tennessee voters at heart, doesn't he?
Originally Posted By Dabob2 It's probably a misunderstanding of "Patient Zero" (for North America), who was a Canadian flight attendant (not pilot), who did pass it along to quite a few men in North America early on. I don't know if Sen. Campfield is familiar, but there's this place out there called... oh, what was that name again?... oh yeah, "Africa." Some say it's a whole continent. Quite large, even. The best guess from the medical community is that AIDS passed from simian to human through eating improperly cooked simian meat. At that point, it passed between humans in Africa - long before it spread elsewhere - mostly through heterosexual sex. You know, that thing that Campfield says is a nearly impossible method of transmision. It blows my mind that in 2012, 30 years after Americans became aware of AIDS, some people are so myopic that they can't see past the borders of their own country. They take a disease that began with straight people, has ALWAYS affected more straight than gay people worldwide (even at the height of the epidemic here), and to this day continues to affect far more straight than gay people, and call it a "gay disease." The problem (well, one among many) is that the same idiots who would vote for a guy like this might actually LISTEN to a guy like this and think "gee - it's almost impossible to get AIDS from straight sex. What was I so worried about? Condom-free sex, here I come!" This becomes even more likely if schools are unable to teach anything but "abstinence only," a stance supported by... idiots like Campfield.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer "Where do these guys COME from???" Dixie, the place where being on the wrong side of history is a point of pride.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 One other thing. I found out about this guy's comments from Rachel Maddow's blog this week. However, seeing when he made the comments...back in January of 2012, I'm not sure why it took so long to run with this. Well, I'm sure Akin's slipup pushed it along, but I was kind of surprised that he did this more than 6 months ago.
