Whazzup With Wingnuts?Stalker Babe Edition
"Whazzup With Wingnuts" is when we check in on some of our favorite wingnuts, catch up on their latest doings, and see if they are remembering to take their medication.
So, remember our old friend Rachel Mardsen, GOP supporter, "popular" media personality and pundit, Canadian, and serial stalker?
Well, it seems that you can hire her to do your public relations!
Here's the info, per a press release that came out earlier this month: The first-ever online communications service catering to the conservative grassroots and business communities officially opens its virtual doors today at therealitycheck.org. TRC Media Service is a partnership between TheRealityCheck.org, Inc. and Andrasta Public Relations, Inc. [...] According to Andrasta Public Relations President, Rachel Marsden, “A lot of people have a message that they want to get out, but they have no clue where to start. Whether it’s in the form of a speech, advertisement, or press release, we’ll craft your message to perfection, and focus it like a laser to ensure that it hits your target audience right between the eyes, and gets across the exact points you wish to convey. And we’ll do it all at a fraction of the cost of other PR and communications companies.”
And why should you hire Rachel to do your PR (besides her ability to shoot laserbeams, and her cheapness)? Well, you can't beat publicity like this! Woman Guilty of Harassing Man in Canada
11:21 AM EST - October 13, 2004
The Associated Press
Rachel Marsden, 29, appeared Tuesday in Vancouver Provincial Court and received a conditional discharge with one year of probation, meaning she can avoid having a criminal record if she has no other run-ins with law over the next 12 months.
No stalking for a whole year? Those Canadian judges are STRICT!
But we are glad to know that this court case is finally behind Rachel, and she get on with her punditing for Debate USA, her calendar modeling, and her PR work for (snicker) "The Reality Check Media Service." "Her conduct was entirely inappropriate," Judge Bill Kitchen said. She is now free to return to the United States, where she has been a conservative political activist, but agreed not to write about Morgan and his family on the Internet - a condition imposed because she has her own Web site.
At the time of her arrest two years ago, Marsden, now was working for Free Congress Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. She resigned months later when her employer learned of the harassment charge, also known as stalking.
I can't believe that an outfit started by Paul "King of the Wingnuts" Weyrich would fire somebody just for being crazy! She was also forced to resign last May while working under the name Elle Henderson in the constituency office of Gurmant Grewal, a Conservative member of Parliament. Marsden's first brush with controversy came in 1996, when Simon Fraser University swim coach Liam Donnelly was fired after she accused him of sexual harassment.
Donnelly was later reinstated after he produced evidence that Marsden was stalking him and had sent him gifts and sexually explicit e-mails.
In court Tuesday, Marsden told Kitchen, "I promise that I'll never be back before this court for the rest of my life. You have my word on that."
"I conclude that she should have learned her lesson from all that has happened to her so far," Kitchen said.
Um, yeah. And she should have learned her lesson after stalking the first guy, but that just didn't happen. Marsden was charged with harassment of Morgan after he terminated their romantic relationship in October 2002, asked her to stay away from his apartment and told her he never wanted to see her or hear from her again.
After learning Morgan had started dating another woman, Marsden persisted in telephoning and sending e-mails to Morgan, now 54, for almost a month after the breakup.
But no rabbits were boiled, as far as we know.
Anyway, because we were curious, we did some Googling and found a cached Vancouver Sun story from May about her departure from the office of Gurmant Grewal (what a great political name!) -- here are my favorite parts: OTTAWA – Rachel Marsden, the sex kitten political pundit whose contract with a B.C. Conservative MP was terminated Friday, has suggested that party leader Stephen Harper is more concerned about her anti-Harper political views than her controversial past. “To set the record straight on my past, I have never been convicted of any wrongdoing in the [1996 Simon Fraser University] harassment case – a traumatic incident I underwent while in my teens,” Marsden wrote in a statement on the weekend.
“I have also not been convicted of any wrongdoing in the [Michael] Morgan case, which is still before the courts.”
So, she was just a tramautized teen in the first case, and hadn't yet been convicted in the second (which, of course, she has been now), so there's no reason why she shouldn't be working for a Conservative MP. Just like there's no reason why Ann Coulter shouldn't be our Secretary of State, and Courtney Love shouldn't be our Surgeon General.
But wait, if Rachel is now 29, and the swim coach-stalking was in 1996, wouldn't she have been 20 or 21 at the time?
No matter, since she claims that wasn't fired, and that Harper is just mad because she said mean things about him in her influential "GOP USA" pieces. Jim Armour, director of communications in Harper’s office, dismissed the suggestion that Marsden’s political opinions were the source of the concern over the hiring.
“Ms. Marsden can speculate all she wants, but our reasons were many and quite frankly they seem to be multiplying with each passing day,” Armour said Sunday. Marsden, at the centre of two major stalking controversies in B.C., had her contract terminated Friday after The Vancouver Sun, responding to an anonymous tip, made inquiries about whether a woman in Grewal’s office known as “Elle Henderson” was in fact Marsden.
Grewal confirmed that Marsden was going by the “nickname” Elle, though the MP said no attempt was made to hide her identity.
Who would have guessed that "Elle Henderson" is a nickname for "Rachel Marsden"?
Oh, and speaking of Rachel's website, we paid it a visit. While the latest photos of Rachel are pretty tame, she does give us her upcoming schedule for her radio show:The Rachel Marsden Show
Political talk, taken to a whole new level.
Tune in every Saturday night from 6 - 7pm Pacific Time (9 - 10pm Eastern Time) on CITR 101.9FM in Vancouver, Canada, or listen to the show LIVE on the Internet from anywhere in the world by clicking here.
Wow, a one-hour local radio show -- that IS a whole new level! I wonder what Ann and Rachel will find to talk about? Maybe Ann can give Rachel some tips on where to buy skanky outfits, while Rachel can teach Ann how to get a man!
Anyway, also at her site, we can read Rachel's latest column (also available at Debate USA). It's about how drug companies are being unfairly persecuted by the families of patients who die of drug side-effects (it looks like somebody knows which side of the PR bread is buttered). Here's part: Hey, America! Want your drug fix? Then stop suing your suppliers. If you don’t, then it’s only a matter of time before that gravy train derails.
Hey, America! Want people to keep dying of foreseeable drug side-effects? Then take advice from Canadian kooks!
Rachel claims that the info included with Vioxx said that you could die from taking it, so you were warned, and have no justification for suing Merck. "Serious but rare and potentially life-threatening side effects that have been reported in patients taking VIOXX include: [ ...] Heart attacks and other serious cardiovascular events, such as blood clots in your body have been reported in patients taking VIOXX."
The warning was there. It ought not to be the manufacturer's problem that some people never read up on the side-effects, figured that any warnings couldn't ever apply to them, decided that the benefits of the drug would outweigh the risks, or didn’t ask their doctor the right questions. But as the New York Times reports this week, “Merck announced that it was pulling the drug off the market because a long-term clinical trial showed that some patients, after taking the drug for 18 months, developed serious cardiovascular problems. The data that ultimately persuaded the company to withdraw the drug indicated 15 cases of heart attack, stroke or blood clots per thousand people each year over three years, compared with 7.5 such events per thousand patients taking a placebo.”
So, Vioxx doubled the risk of getting a heart attack, stroke, or blood clot. Is that the same as "rare side effects have been reported"?
In any case, it's your fault for being stupid enough to have taken the medication your doctor prescribed after knowing that it had any side effects at all, despite the fact that Merck didn't disclose them all. A few more people in a rat lab somewhere end up coming down with the same problematic symptoms that the manufacturer had duly warned about in the first place, and now Merck is facing hundreds of individual Vioxx related lawsuits, and class-actions.
Remember, those who had heart attacks or strokes after taking Vioxx aren't real people with lives and familes, they're "people in a lab rat somewhere." And those suing are just whiny babies who want to blame Merck for their own stupid problems. It’s not the fault of Merck or other drug companies that people are all too willing to perform the adult equivalent of eating Play-Doh. Your mother never sued the Hasbro toy company for that, back in the day, did she?
No. No she didn't. But then I never suffered a heart attack, blood clot, or stroke from eating it. Hasbro claimed that it was non-toxic, and by golly, it was! Too bad Merck isn't as honest as Hasbro. Hey, Rachel, maybe you should try to do their PR!
Tune in to our next "Whazzup With Wingnuts" when we will get up close and personal with Pastor Joseph Grant Swank and Kerry Marsala. And maybe somebody else, if we don't spend too much time on Swank and Marsala.
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