Nancy Pelosi’s “Amen Moment”

Senator John Edwards was justly ridiculed when he stated in 2004 that people in wheelchairs would be able to walk if John Kerry were elected, because he would alter President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding policy. This bit of outrageous hype was quickly labeled Edwards’ “amen moment.”

Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has had a shameless amen moment of her own, asserting in the recent House of Representatives debate:

“Science is a gift of God to all of us and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, arguing for the bill’s passage. “And that is the embryonic stem cell research.”

The thing is: ESCR hasn’t cured anything. This kind of wild hype is shameful and should be ridiculed far and wide. But the media won’t even arch an eyebrow. They analyze every story and statement through the prism of destroying the Bush policy. In such a biased and ignorant milieu, no statement or argument made on behalf of embryonic stem cell research is too wild to be taken seriously.