Amateur Scientist’s Jenny McCarthy Song
“Because a woman who picked her nose on TV/is more trusted than the doctors at the CDC . . . “
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Oskar Kennedy (LBB)
05.15.2009
“She drove her car into a lake, when it was full of her kids.”
That’s the most horrible thing I’ve laughed out loud at in weeks. Superlatives abound.
SkepLit
05.15.2009
I appreciate anyone who calls “Bullshit!” on Jenny McCarthy but to pull it off with such panache is worthy of my untmost respect and gratitude. Somehow, just calling JM a tool makes it seem like an opinion. But to sing for 4+ minutes about her being a tool imbues the argument with an aura of unassailable “factness.”
Could it be that what the Skeptical Movement needs is a band?
QuestionAuthority
05.15.2009
Howwwlllllll!
I love it!
xenu
05.15.2009
Very good, I so want to call Jenny the C-word but I don’t know how that would go over on this board. I really hate that woman and I am not that thrilled about her boy friend too.
Electro
05.15.2009
@xenu: One of the Skepchicks had a post a while back about taking back that word…it went on at some length about how the author didn’t even find it offensive.
So it should be safe to use it here.
…..You go first tho.
Elyse
05.15.2009
@Electro:
I think you might want to re-read that post before you go getting the other kids in trouble!
Unless you’re trying to get Xenu sent to time-out. (Just be warned, that comes with a spanking.)
But back to the video… Thank you, Brian. That was brilliant.
xenu
05.15.2009
@Elyse: Ok now your making me want to say that word if it means getting a spanking.
Chasmosaur
05.15.2009
@SkepLit:
Worked for the credit industry, á la freecreditreport.com. Just gotta actually spend money and get a catchy jingle/band, otherwise, you end up looking like the lamer version set up by the FTC
At any rate, I freakin’ LOVE this.
@Elyse:
I’ll just say she’s a dick, then
dustc
05.15.2009
Is there an audio-only link for this somewhere? I love the song, but I can’t bring myself to disseminate a video that alternates between painful-to-look-at photos of sick children, and photos that seem to imply that a woman’s opinions aren’t to be respected if she’s sexy.
Don’t get me wrong, Jenny’s opinions aren’t to be respected, but because she’s a dangerous know-nothing (which the song points out effectively), not because of her cleavage (which the video keeps zooming in on).
tiger kitty
05.15.2009
Oy. Great thoughts in the song but the kids was tough for me to see.
Jenny sucks.
kookbreaker2
05.15.2009
The kid pics were sadly needed. Too many of the vaccine haters think Mumps and Measles are no big deal.
tiger kitty
05.15.2009
@kookbreaker2:
Oh, I agree. It was just hard to watch. I’ve got two kiddos, and I can’t imagine.
marilove
05.15.2009
@dustc: I am inclined to agree…
marilove
05.15.2009
(not with the sick kids, but rather how they seem to say “hot=stupid”)
phlebas
05.15.2009
@dustc:
I disagree. Her cleavage is *exactly* why Jenny McCarthy has the fame she’s currently leveraging. In my opinion, it’s entirely appropriate to highlight that often-forgotten fact.
She has done no research and had no training or really even had the right life experiences to back up any of the dangerous claims she’s made and will continue to make. Yet people fawn on every word. Why is that, exactly?
Jenny has Playboy-caliber boobs. Because of that, she has been allowed a platform (ha!) to spout this nonsense, and was put in a position to meet her largest financier/boyfriend.
The path from Jenny’s breasts to kids with measles is an easy one to see. Almost as clear-cut as the cleavage in question. It’s a ridiculous path to tread, yet that’s exactly what people are doing whether they know it or not.
I don’t know if that was Brian’s intent, but he did a wonderfully unstated job highlighting it.
halincoh
05.15.2009
Bravo.
If Oprah ever starts a video club, maybe this one will make her list.
Ok … maybe not.
But bravo anyway.
level20monkey
05.16.2009
That man is my new Hero Of The Week.
Gabrielbrawley
05.17.2009
Oh, that was so hard to watch. I am linking it to my face book profile. I get so fucking angry when I go off on the anti-vaccinationists. To think that we are seeing the re-emergence of 19th century diseases. Measles, are you fucking kidding me. My grandparents worried about measles. And polio what the fuck, polio. That was almost fucking gone. Jenny is a fucking monster.
tiger kitty
05.17.2009
What’s even scarier, is that the impact is in the well-educated and affluent areas. There was an article recently in the LA Times that talked about this. These idiots think it would be better to sit with their kid in the hospital suffering from measles or mumps rather than give them a shot. Read this article. It’s sickening how stupid people are.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-immunization29-2009mar29,0,3148179.story?page=1
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