Today, Toronto Public Health (TPH) has directed its syringes toward Jenny McCarthy and her new gig on the somewhat popular US talk show The View. Why? As several news outlets have high-lighted in the past few days, it is believed that Jenny McCarthy is against vaccines.
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McCarthy, whose son is autistic, actually isn't anti-vaccine (see video clip below); she simply doesn't agree with the schedule. It's her personal opinion. After all, the US government has actually settled cases with autistic children and admitted that vaccines didn't cause autism, but "resulted" in it.
So why all the fuss? Are people who have opinions not allowed to have jobs in the media? Not according to Toronto Public Health. Perhaps TPH is only after Jenny McCarthy because they disagree with her opinion. Did Toronto Public Health ever go after other co-hosts on The View? What about Joy Behar who never ceases to impose her unclean mouth onto America? No.
Regardless of your opinion on vaccines, it is ridiculous that a Canadian, municipal, publically funded entity intervene on US entertainment matters. Doesn't TPH have more important and jurisdictionally appropriate matters to deal with like mal-nourished, inner-city kids or rabid raccoons terrorizing the residents? Clearly not since they are full-force going after a TV network and a Playboy model.
Speaking of Playboy, if TPH really wants to promote health and pursue Jenny McCarthy, why not go after the more obvious angle, which is her repeated nude Playboy centerfolds. Where is the TPH on exploiting women, and women's mental health? I'm certainly disturbed when I hear of women being objectified by going nude just to have men ogle them. What kind of role-modeling is that for our young Toronto girls? Why doesn't the TPH voice a concern over that issue, and perhaps launch a campaign to ban Playboy in Toronto?
So I sit here, an embarrassed Torontonian, that Toronto Public Health is needling Ms. McCarthy for her opinions (which incidentally TPH is incorrectly paraphrasing). Ironically, the City of Toronto, under jurisdiction from the Province of Ontario, allows for children to be exempt from vaccinations if their parents so choose.
So good luck Ms. McCarthy- knock 'em dead. But please, do keep your clothes on.
McCarthy, whose son is autistic, actually isn't anti-vaccine (see video clip below); she simply doesn't agree with the schedule. It's her personal opinion. After all, the US government has actually settled cases with autistic children and admitted that vaccines didn't cause autism, but "resulted" in it.
So why all the fuss? Are people who have opinions not allowed to have jobs in the media? Not according to Toronto Public Health. Perhaps TPH is only after Jenny McCarthy because they disagree with her opinion. Did Toronto Public Health ever go after other co-hosts on The View? What about Joy Behar who never ceases to impose her unclean mouth onto America? No.
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Speaking of Playboy, if TPH really wants to promote health and pursue Jenny McCarthy, why not go after the more obvious angle, which is her repeated nude Playboy centerfolds. Where is the TPH on exploiting women, and women's mental health? I'm certainly disturbed when I hear of women being objectified by going nude just to have men ogle them. What kind of role-modeling is that for our young Toronto girls? Why doesn't the TPH voice a concern over that issue, and perhaps launch a campaign to ban Playboy in Toronto?
So I sit here, an embarrassed Torontonian, that Toronto Public Health is needling Ms. McCarthy for her opinions (which incidentally TPH is incorrectly paraphrasing). Ironically, the City of Toronto, under jurisdiction from the Province of Ontario, allows for children to be exempt from vaccinations if their parents so choose.
So good luck Ms. McCarthy- knock 'em dead. But please, do keep your clothes on.