"Frist: A Man of Character Playing by the Rules"...a REAL headline! LMAO!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Frist: A Man of Character Playing by the Rules

Oct 4, 2005
by Bill Wichterman



http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/BillWichterman/2005/10/04/159404.html

Senator Bill Frist has been accused of using insider information to make a profit on the sale of stock in the Healthcare Corporation of America (HCA), a company founded by his father and brother, just before a bad earnings report caused the stock’s value to plummet.

To the casual observer, the case may look cut-and-dry: another politician acting like he’s above the law. But I have my own insider information that says the story is wrong.

I know Bill Frist. I worked for him for the last 2 ½ years as one of his policy advisors. And this story doesn’t comport with how he runs his office or his life. Nor does it comport with the facts – facts that have been in short supply in many of the media reports. Bill Frist is a man of tremendous integrity. I have always found him to be honest, straightforward, sincere, and genuine.

I know some politicians who act one way in public and another way behind closed doors. That’s not Bill Frist. I’ve never heard him say a bad word about anyone, even when he had ample cause. He is charitable with others, and tough on himself. His annual medical missions to treat AIDS victims in Africa are authentic and without fanfare. In fact, he does much more than that for which he seeks and receives no publicity. He’s unfailingly kind to his staff, and inspires deep loyalty and dedicated work through his constant affirmation.

He also adopted cats in the Boston area under false pretenses, took them home, gained their affection and trust over the course of a few days, and then GUTTED THEM LIKE FUCKING FISH. That's the Bill Frist I KNOW.

[Inland]

1. Bill Frist raised me from the dead, AND refused a small gratutity.

No kidding.

[Canuckistanian]

6. I had hydrophobia and rabies. Bill cured me.

That's NEVER happened before in medical history. After that, Bill knocked over some tables at a temple.

[Clark2008]

12. Bill Frist protected my American boy from his Arabic

father when he tried to steal him and take him away from Jordan where I would have no rights, even though in the states I have full custody, by intervening in a court case I asked him to and submitting tougher legislation.


Ooops! NOT!!!!!!!!!!

Yep... another dissatisfied constituent.


(PS. The boy is OK, despite the lack of Frist's best or any effort).

[Canuckistanian]

14. For real? You were personally screwed over by Dr. Frist?

Glad to hear it turned out OK, though.

[Clark2008]

16. Well, as a constituent pleading for help, yes.

Did he personally escort my ex-husband over to kidnap our son - no. But he didn't lift a finger to stop the threat. I had to sit vigilant and use the help of friends and family for that.

I still am not getting any child support. He's still in the country - illegally (but remarried) and not working - despite the requests I put into Frist's office to shit or get off the pot (make him a binding citizen or deport his ass). He's still a low-grade, constant threat, but it's OK, now. OK. Not great.

P.S. In an effort to report the whole truth and nothing but... both my Democrat state representative and my Republican state senator DID at least intervene on the child support issue and got the HEAD of the state child support agency to call me and initiate a case (which no one else was bothering to do). She said I must be popular since I had both the Dems and the Repubs phoning her. I said that it wasn't a popularity contest, but that my son was popular with me and something needed to be done.

[Canuckistanian]

18. I hope you have a restraining order

That is a scary situation. I saw your website. Cute little guy.

[Lubernaut]

11. He bought me a taco.

No, wait, that was Satan.

[madeline_con]

2. Excuse me while I...

:puke:

[chalky]

3. Which character? I choose the Gregory Peck guy from "Boys From Brazil".

As to which rules he's playing by, gotta say Monopoly.

[spanone]

4. You CAN fool some of the people some of the time.

[BootinUp]

5. Dr. Frist: correcting erroneous diagnosis

Send him video of your previously diagnosed vegetative relative or friend and he will correctly diagnose the amount of brain damage and recommend the best legislative approach.

[Turbineguy]

7. He's a heart surgeon??

Maybe he should get to work on Cheney

(evil grin)

[Canuckistanian]

15. Especially if he wants to be Speaker of the House

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. Hey, the Bill Frist I KNOW diagnosed me from afar and realized that I live

and in fact, I am still alive, even though that frumpy carbon-based, mostly bag of water that I was enclosed in ( gawd, they showed me so FAT and with NO MAKE-UP?!?!?!?! Maaaaaaaaa! What the hell did you DO?) has been put 6 feet under, Bill realizes that he and I are special and that his diagnosis from afar was really special for me. In fact, I will follow him everywhere, and talk to him, forever. Trust me, I will always be at his ear from now on.
Trust me, Bill. you will hear my voice forever. Just like your long distance diagnosis.

[Cocoa]

9. Wichterman: a man with a thick lustrous head of hair

who writes a killer column for a fantastic website.

[sendero]

10. Oh well that settles it then..

... if a former aide is sure that there was no wrongdoing involved, then what more do we need to know.

I'm sure that if a former aide to a Democrat accused of a crime came forward with such a heartfelt story, all prosecutorial activity would cease.

And I'm sure that a story like this, full of rationalizations, spin and conjecture has the veracity of a thousand angelic cherubs talking softly on fluffy clouds.

But really, it just makes me add another name to the list of folks who I wouldn't trust a single inch, namely Mr. Bill W.

[0007]

13. Bill Wichterman completely sold me that Senator Frist is

one hell of a great guy. If fact I want Bill Frist to be the first Pope from the U.S.

The Vatican sez, "Billy doesn't cast a shallow and can't indeed fully be a human being.

[Canuckistanian]

19. The "Humble" Bill Frist

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh020403.shtml

One example is a classic. In late 1997, the selfless senator made his first “unpublicized” trip to do medical work in Africa. And somehow, despite the remote setting and despite Frist’s humility, the AP had a photographer present, and AP reporter Karin Davies got the details of Doc’s selfless work. Frist “performed surgery by flashlight on a man whose scrotum was swollen to the size of a melon,” she marveled. Indeed, before the humble Frist “slipped beneath a mosquito net for a sweaty night of sleep,” he was even forced to hear “hopeful suggestions that he was ‘a second George Marshall.’” How he must have tossed and turned after hearing such unwelcome words!

[0007]

20. Excellent catch! Indeed a howler

[librechik]

17. trust me, townhall.com is not "Real"

and don't go over there. Whatever it is they have might be contagious.

[No Exit]

21. I was a bit worried at first about the ascendancy of Frist.

Oh, no, I thought, here's their next presidential candidate, and he's a DOCTOR, and we know how the public thinks doctors can do no wrong...

But since then I've seen what a lackluster, wimpy, cowardly figure he cuts. I no longer worry about a Frist candidacy.