Used. That's what celebrity Amanda Peet is. Used. Taken advantage of. Don't you hate when people are too clueless to even realize how clueless they are, so they go ahead and assume they're smart? She was quoted in a recent issue of Cookie Magazine, calling parents who don't vaccinate their children "parasites."
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You see, someone in her family is a doctor, and they put her in touch with Paul Offit, and Paul Offit gave her an earful, and she believed him. Because he's a doctor. He's also a professional spokesperson for a major pharmaceutical company that makes a butt load off of vaccines. He's also got financial interest (patent holder)on at least one vaccine. Offit has a book coming out that bashes parents who are concerned about the increased vaccine schedule and the toxins in the currently mandated shots. And I'm willing to bet, somewhere in there, he calls us "parasites." (I'm just guessing Peet didn't come up with that analogy on her own). Oh...and according to a recent article in Age of Autism, Offit has also been reprimanded by the US congress for his conflicts of interest while serving on the Vaccine Advisory Committee.
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Amanda Peet, I sure hope you never have to experience the pain of watching your child struggle with autism. I hope your kid never screams non stop for two years straight. I hope she doesn't get kicked out of preschool, and I hope she doesn't miss 14 days of school per year due to GI trouble. I hope she never rips chunks of hair out of her head and I certianly hope she doesn't smear feces all over your walls. I hope she always is able to say "Mama," and, "I love you."
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I don't care if you vaccinate or if you don't, but how dare you criticize parents in the trenches who have actually done their homework and who give the best of themselves to their precious children with autism every day. How many research studies have you personally read Ms. Peet?And if by chance you have read an actual study, did you ever ask who funded it?
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Hmmm.....I wonder if Ms. Peet thinks all the autistic kids we'll be supporting in the decades to come (on the government dole) are parasites too?
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And BTW...Amanda, do you have any compassion for the mothers? Any respect for the thousands of parents who say, "Vaccines did this to my child." 5000 cases are lined up and waiting for their turn in federal vaccine court right now.
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Is there any way you might be wrong? Or are you too arrogant (or clueless)to even consider the possibility.
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One last question Amanda Peet....are you getting paid for your part in Offit's upcoming "Every Child by Two" public service announcements to push vaccines? If yes, do you mind this "parasite" asking, how much?
*photo from a Gap ad (2007)
12 comments:
You spanked her. Great job Michelle!
I don't know Amanda Peet, nor do I care to know her; however, being that it is obvious she is not the brightest bulb in the pack (if you get my drift), I am not surprised to hear her views.
I'm getting a visual of a puppet... a puppet with some cold hard cash stashed down her bra... oh, oh... and she's wearing a t-shirt that says, "Biostitute"... and Offit's overhead controlling her strings wearing his BioPimp hat!
I KNOW...I saw that article the other day, too.
I've love to see a celebrity smackdown with our Jenny...Jenny would tell her what's what.
Stupidity. Insensitive.
I thought Peet was better than this!! thanks for bringing it to light. clueless is being kind.
and I too would love to see Jenny tackle Peet's so called opinion.
Pure Ignorance. I hope.
Yes! Where is Our Jenny when we need her!?
Time magazine had an inflammatory cover story like this recently. TIME? I expect better from them!
Does she know what a parasite is - or better yet, how to spell it?
I never heard of the bitch. Let's just hope in some unfortunate way, she learns the basic laws of the universe real fast. Karma, or what you reap you shall sow.. . Ignorance begets ignorance and I have no patience for it. You of course do an excellent job of eloquently educating her, if she isn't too self absorbed to hear you.
Well put. Someone needs to tell Jenny. OOOH, and get them both on Larry King...or maybe Jerry Springer so Jenny can whoop her butt in the name of biomed!
Did you hear that Amanda Peet was Maid of Honor in Lauren Holly's wedding? (Holly was married to Jim Carrey several years back).
What do you make of it?
I hope she actually reads this somehow. Or one of her friends. And also HOW DARE that magazine printing that without thought to parents like you! Will they also print an article/interview with Jenny, maybe? Get both sides?
I saw Amanda Peet on, I think it was The View, awhile back talking this crap. And there was Joy Bayhar nodding and discusted. Knowing nothing. It pissed me off so bad. What woudl Joy know about any of this now?? Her only child is an adult in her 30's. When people who know nothing get public forums to spout off like this, it drives me crazy!!
*fume*
Rayanne-- Hmmmmmmm! Very interesting, actually. And if that has anything to do with her mouthing off, that makes her an even bigger douch.
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Well said, Michelle. Very.
Have you done much oped writing? You're a natural at it.
I'd put oped page editors at major newspapers on your email address list if I were you and when something like this happens again, crank it out to them.
You go girl.
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