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Gabi Hayes

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Tue Jul-26-05 10:47 PM
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Bill Maher on Jay Leno tonight

Edited on Tue Jul-26-05 11:38 PM by Gabi Hayes

I know, on both, but it might be interesting to see what he has to say about things, considering the newsiness of the last few weeks, and all

think I'll tape it so I don't have to sit through the "comedy" that's coming up beforehand

EDIT: Maher brought up Dr. David Hager, pRes. Dumbass's appointee to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the Food and Drug Administration

how many of you have heard about THIS:

.....Hager cast himself as a victim of religious persecution in his sermon. "You see...there is a war going on in this country," he said gravely. "And I'm not speaking about the war in Iraq. It's a war being waged against Christians, particularly evangelical Christians. It wasn't my scientific record that came under scrutiny . It was my faith.... By making myself available, God has used me to stand in the breach.... Just as he has used me, he can use you."

Up on the dais, several men seated behind Hager nodded solemnly in agreement. But out in the audience, Linda Carruth Davis--co-author with Hager of Stress and the Woman's Body, and, more saliently, his former wife of thirty-two years--was enraged. "It was the most disgusting thing I've ever heard," she recalled months later, through clenched teeth.

According to Davis, Hager's public moralizing on sexual matters clashed with his deplorable treatment of her during their marriage. Davis alleges that between 1995 and their divorce in 2002, Hager repeatedly sodomized her without her consent. Several sources on and off the record confirmed that she had told them it was the sexual and emotional abuse within their marriage that eventually forced her out. "I probably wouldn't have objected so much, or felt it was so abusive if he had just wanted normal sex all the time," she explained to me. "But it was the painful, invasive, totally nonconsensual nature of the sex that was so horrible."

Not once during the uproar over Hager's FDA appointment did any reporter solicit the opinion of the woman now known as Linda Davis--she remarried in November 2002 to James Davis, a Methodist minister, and relocated to southern Georgia--on her husband's record, even though she contributed to much of his self-help work in the Christian arena (she remains a religious and political conservative). She intermittently thought of telling her story but refrained, she says, out of respect for her adult children. It was Hager's sermon at Asbury last October that finally changed her mind. Davis was there to hear her middle son give a vocal performance; she was prepared to hear her ex-husband inveigh against secular liberals, but she was shocked to hear him speak about their divorce when he took to the pulpit.

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050530&s=mcgarvey

isn't that special? read the rest of the article, and if you have ANY capacity for outrage left, you'll surely feel it, and wonder why on earth the frickin DEMS didn't object to this unspeakable monster's apppointment to such an ironic position

he was due for reappointment on June 30 last. anybody hear word one on this?