Right-wing commentator and ceepy crawler Jonah Goldberg, son of sleazebag Lucianne Goldberg – friend of Matt Drudge and Linda Tripp – wrote a disgusting column last week defending the Tuskegee syphilis case brought up by the ubiquitous Reverend Wright video. In so doing, Goldberg put himself on a level far far below that of Reverend Wright.
Let’s be clear on this. In 1936 the US Public Health Service in Alabama brought in 399 poor black men who had syphilis for an experiment. They did not tell the participants that they had the disease, and though they were told they were being treated they were not. As such many not only died from syphilis and its complications, but passed it on to their black wifes and children. The doctors were only concerned with autopsy results.
Because there was no cure for syphilis in 1936, Goldberg defends the case. There was treatment at the time which was called arsphenamine discovered in 1910 by Dr. Paul Ehrlich. Being the ugly creepy crawler Goldberg is, he failed to say that the actual cure – which was penicillin – was being cheaply mass produced by 1943. Seven years after the experiment began, and 30 years before it ended.
All this is of course expected from Republican commentators, but the coup de grace was this quote in the article:
Among scholars who’ve studied Tuskegee, there’s a lot of debate about how much — if any — racism was involved in the experiment.
That is such a foul, disgusting, absurd lie that like Ann Coulter before him, every major newspaper in the world that syndicates his column should have already thrown him out the damn door on his fat ass. Tall Tales About Tuskegee