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I don’t know how Matt Comer of QNotes kept his composure on the phone with anti-gay NC marriage amendment sponsor James Forrester, who is now playing the victim after he was busted on the Blend this week for misrepresenting his professional credentials.
As expected, now Forrester is claiming to be a victim of TEH HOMO AGENDA. Who knew that asking an elected official to answer questions directly related to the credibility of his public statements and policy positions is an undue burden. Did he just fall off of the turnip truck? Call the Waaambulance and pull out the tiny violin for this statement from Forrester:
“What has happened is the gay community — the homosexuals don’t like the bill that I pushed through the General Assembly,” Forrester told qnotes via phone. “They don’t like the bill. They are trying to kill the messenger. They are working to discredit me but they can’t.”
Forrester added, “If I put anything on my resume that is false, I’ll certainly change it.”
Any mistakes, Forrester said, were “inadvertent.”
“I don’t need to make up credentials; I have enough of them already,” he said. “The gay community is just trying to dig up anything bad about me to discredit me and discredit the bill. I wish they’d quit sending such hate mail and the terrible phone calls I’m getting from them.”
Forrester has two choices – he deliberately chose to misrepresent his credentials, or to say he just wasn’t so befuddled he couldn’t keep his credentials, ahem, straight.
Forrester also said he had already changed his resumes to list “former” affiliations with groups like the American College of Preventive Medicine, though mentions of the groups remain unedited on his resume at his personal campaign site and at a web page on the Gaston County Republican Party’s website. In each instance, Forrester’s citations seem to indicate a current and active affiliation with various groups.
Well I hope Forrester is ready for round 2; Scott Rose has a follow-up report on the veracity of some of the Senator’s specific anti-gay statements that he keeps spewing in articles and on the air.
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Damn, teh gheyz did it again!
Seriously, these bigots need to stop.
Our little Jimmy is sounding more than a bit ”befuddled,” isn’t he?
Being among those who’ve ventured far onto the theocratic/Dominionist ledge–you’d assume he uses homosexual as a polite substitute for sodomite–and almost never uses the word ”gay” except in scare quotes.
Yeah, I falsified my medical credentials… and I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for those meddling deviants.
…”Doctor” Forrester’s been watching way too many cartoons.
On a more serious note, though, even listing himself as a “former” member of professional medical association that he hasn’t been affiliated with for nearly 30 years is STILL intentionally misleading and deceptive. These associations require not just annual dues, but adherence to strict ethical standards and continuing and ongoing education to remain a member in good standing.
His only motivation to even list them at all is to give the impression that he is somehow ethical or currently qualified to give competent care and treatment.
This man should NOT be allowed to touch another patient until he can prove what, if any, current qualifications he has as a healthcare provider.
Furthermore, he should be required to inform each and every one of his patients (and the loved ones of his departed patients) that the credentials he had hanging on his wall were outdated.
“Furthermore, he should be required to inform each and every one of his patients (and the loved ones of his departed patients) that the credentials he had hanging on his wall were outdated.”
… or fraudulent.
Most particularly, being a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, which requires that one is board-certified in an appropriate field AND has certain minimum experience and credibility.
People — both patients and the public — and his fellow North Carolina legislators — have a right to believe that someone who claims to be a specialist in preventive medicine knows what s/he is talking about when it comes to public health matters that are reasonably well known to educated laypeople and should most certainly be known to a specialist. And when that person uses a position of presumed special knowledge to spew misinformation and disinformation as an active advocate for particular public policy legislation, that calls for professional sanctions as well as legislative ones.
Of course, no one expects fundamentalist Christianists to act either honestly or with integrity.
Forrester’s false claim to be a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine is still up on his official bios here http://jimforrester.net/about.htm and here http://www.gastongop.org/james-forrester/
Other questions about his credentials have arisen. Apparently he may not be an Associate Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association, as he claims. There is a question about whether or not he is actually a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
QNotes reports that Forrester may not be a member of the Christian Medical and Dental Society, as he claims.
Oh NOES! He’s also an apparent ” victim” of teh Heterosexual Agenda since I’m the(straight) one who initially posted that I’d not found him listed on the (Associate Fellows of)AsMA site!
Oh, god gosh! Exposing a pig-ignorant fraud and liar for exactly what he is! I am so ashamed of our community. Next thing you know, we’ll be trying to convince the world that the sky is blue and the sun comes up in the east.
As evil villains go, I prefer this “Dr.” Forrester:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Clayton_Forrester_%28Mystery_Science_Theater_3000%29