The Occasional Observer

Exposing their own charade of impartiality, Layton and Eilperin continue the WaPo misinformation campaign on stem cells. It wasn't the focus of their article, mind you, but they just have to slip it in whenever they can. I guess the theory is that once readers have seen the same dreck enough times, it will start to sound true. From the article,

House Democrats intend to pass a raft of popular measures as part of their well-publicized plan for the first 100 hours. They include...allowing more research on stem cells.

Oh, the Democrats plan to allow more research, eh? That'll be great. I can't wait for them to lift the ban on...eh...um...hmm...oh, that's right, there currently are no restrictions on stem cell research of any kind.

Of course, what they are referring to, albeit with intentionally loose and misleading language, is that the federal government has mandated that tax dollars won't be spent on research that destroys human embryos, with the exception of a group of lines that had already been created (and the embryos already destroyed) before the President's executive order. The President was under some misguided notion that the people shouldn't be forced to pay for research that millions of them consider tantamount to killing a human being.

They also gloss over the fact that the federal government continues to make funds available for adult stem cell research. You know, the research that is not ethically questionable. Oh yeah, and it also happens to be the form of stem cell research that has actually produced results.