Kitty-killer label litters Frist resume for president

[gatorboy]

http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060612/COLUMNIST0101/606120346/1092/NEWS

There's a potential pothole in U.S. Sen. Bill Frist's road to the White House: He's a confessed kitty killer.

He fessed up in his 1989 book, "Transplant," to adopting cats from shelters when he was in medical school, treating them like pets for a while, and then using them in his research experiments. Maybe in hindsight, Trent Lott should have seen it coming.

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Bet Frist wishes now he'd refrained from giving out too much information in his first book. He made his case in "Transplant" for saving lives by learning through experiments with animals while at Harvard. It's the part where he kept them as pets first that is bothersome.

"Desperate, obsessed with my work, I visited the various animal shelters in the Boston suburbs, collecting cats, taking them home, treating them as pets for a few days, then carting them off to the lab to die in the interests of science. And medicine. And health care. And treatment of disease. And my project.

[CheshireCat]

1. Disgusting!

Are we suppose to feel lucky that this budding sociopath went into politics instead of becoming another Ted Bundy?

[Sequoia]

2. Creepy, even Dr. Frankenstein

had some principals in that he's stick to dead people.

[kestrel91316]

3. Somehow I think the concept of "pet" escapes Dr. Fristenstein.

For pete's sake, if you're going to use a pound-seized animal in research, you don't take it home to bond with you first. How could he DO this to animals HE had bonded to???????

I guess the concept of "bonding" is beyond him, too.

[skipos]

4. This shouldn't surprise anyone, Frist is nutz. nt

[smokey nj]

5. Serial killers often start with animal cruelty..........

has anyone checked his basement?

[AndyA]

6. Bill Frist can just go to hell - what a POS this man is.

He's breathing good air that a human being could be breathing! I hope the ghosts of the dead cats come back to haunt Frist, drive him so insane no one would ever allow him to be let out of the mental institution!

[Strawman]

7. That is really creepy

The part about holding the dog heart especially. If he were sincerely repentant, he would (quietly) make a animal cruelty a central focus of his legislative career. Or even drop out of politics entirely and dedicate his life and fortune to saving animals. Somehow I don't see that happening.

This guy needs a serious reality check. He's not presidential material. I don't care how rich his family is, it ain't gonna happen. Steve Forbes was rich too, but unelectable because he gave off a creepy vibe. Frist is even creepier. People don't want to get the willies everytime they flip on the news and see their president.

[smokey nj]

10. I read the article and thought of a name for his memoir......

Actually it's a title of a Stephen King novella...."Apt Pupil."

[Clark2008]

14. People don't want to get the willies everytime they flip on the news

see their president."




I already do, though.

:scared:

[The Stranger]

8. Animal abuse is usually an indicator of sociopaths.

[Virginia Dare]

9. Bill Frist has a serious screw loose....

the Washington Post did this BIZARRE piece about him and his visit to the National Zoo to observe a procedure they were doing on a gorilla there. The whole thing was just creepy and weird.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301380.html


:puffpiece:

[radwriter0555]

11. I've said since 2004 that frist is the next US president.

I'm really, really sorry about that.

[joeunderdog]

12. But Save the Stem Cells! nt

[bunkerbuster1]

13. Amusing that this is just now becoming an issue

I figured more or less everyone in the left blogosphere had discussed and had varying degrees of fun with the story.

But hey, every little bit helps.

(See also my sig quote...)

[rustydog]

15. so does for-profit healthcare and him passing legislation

protecting his financial interests in for-profit healthcare.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

16. Idiot reporter acts like it's funny

sick fuck Frist

[npincus]

17. what a piece of human excrement

I HOPE he's the GOP's nominee... we will do to him (figuratively speaking) what he did to those poor cats.

[zbdent]

18. I can see the right-wing poster for "A Fristian Election in 08" - "Elect

me, or I won't kill this kitten!" - emphasizing his "tough guy" stand . . .

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