Bush's pro-absintence, anti-condom "AIDS czar" resigns in prostitution scandal

[StefanX]

The "DC Madam" scandal has now brought down its first big-name DC political figure: Randall Tobias, ... the head of the US Agency for International Development and Director of US Foreign Assistance at the State Department.
...
As the Bush administration's so-called "AIDS czar," Tobias was criticized for emphasizing faithfulness and abstinence over condom use to prevent the spread of AIDS.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013882.php

Another Republican hypocrite bites the dust.



Edited to include the funny pic above linked by DUer DKRC!

[Richard Steele]

1. Recommended.

[rodeodance]

2. I read that they took down his website PRONTO (within minutes)

[MADem]

12. He's still on the White House website. All they did was add FORMER to his title!!!

Gee, "RANDY" is aptly named, I see!!!

Reproduced in its entirety, since there's no copyright on Federal documents:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/tobias-bio.html
Ambassador Randall L. Tobias
Former United States Global AIDS Coordinator




Randy Tobias was born March 20, 1942 and grew up in Remington, Indiana. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in 1964 and joined AT&T’s Indiana Bell Telephone Company subsidiary. Shortly thereafter, he served 2 years on active duty as an artillery officer assigned to the faculty at the United States Army Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Following his military service, he returned to AT&T in Indiana. In 1977, he was transferred by AT&T to Illinois Bell Telephone Company in Chicago, where he became vice president of the company.

In 1981, he was moved to AT&T’s global headquarters in New Jersey, where he later ran AT&T’s worldwide long distance and network businesses. He played a major role in helping to lead AT&T through the difficult period following the breakup of the Bell System in 1984, serving as AT&T’s Vice Chairman from 1986 until 1993 and, additionally, as Chairman and CEO of AT&T International from 1991 until 1993.

In 1993, he left AT&T to become Chairman, President and CEO of Eli Lilly and Company. Under Tobias’s leadership, the company experienced a dramatic turnaround and enjoyed one of the most successful periods in its history. On January 1, 1999, upon his retirement from the company, he was named Chairman Emeritus. After stepping down from his post at Lilly, he focused his attention on a number of business, community and philanthropic interests and on teaching and writing. His book on leadership lessons learned, Put The Moose On The Table, written with his son, Todd Tobias, was published in early 2003.

On July 2, 2003, President Bush announced his intent to nominate Tobias to serve as the first United States Global AIDS Coordinator with the rank of Ambassador. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 3, 2003 and sworn in on October 6, 2003. Ambassador Tobias is responsible for overseeing all U.S. international HIV/AIDS assistance and coordinating the efforts of the various agencies and departments of the United States Government that deliver it, and reports directly to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Among his honors, Tobias was named Pharmaceutical Industry CEO of the Year by the Wall Street Transcript in 1995, and CEO of the Year in 1996 by Working Mother magazine. In 1997, he was named one of the "Top Twenty-Five Managers of the Year" by Business Week, Magazine. He was also named the "Norman Vincent Peale Humanitarian of the Year" in 1997. He received the "Positive Ally Award" from the National Association of People with AIDS in 2005.

Tobias has served on a number of corporate boards, including AT&T, Eli Lilly and Company, Chemical Bank of New York, Agilent Technologies, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Knight-Ridder, Inc., and ConocoPhillips Petroleum Company. He also served for 12 years as a trustee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and 13 years as a trustee of Duke University, including 3 years as chair of the board.

Tobias has been awarded honorary Doctor of Laws degrees by Indiana University, Wabash College, Butler University, Gallaudet University, and Ball State University, and an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has also been awarded the Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI) Urban University Medal.

[DawnIsis]

3. I think it's hilarious he claims he hired hookers to give him a "massage" not sex

that must be the most expensive massage ever.

:rofl:

[bluerum]

6. I always wonder why men go to hookers for massages instead of a licensed

massage therapist. :sarcasm:

Massage therapists are legal and they would do a massage the right way.

Another benefit is that you wouldn't risk all of this career ending nastiness. But then again, how would we get rid of the lying republicker scum infesting the WH.

edit for smiley.

[malaise]

8. So did his holiness

the Haggart :rofl:

[don954]

10. like we also don't know that's code

for a certain sex act...
;)

[MADem]

14. "Central American gals" too, so he said. Not sure what the point was there!! NT

[durtee librul]

16. I heard a soundbite from him on the teebee

the other day and he claimed he didn't know any of the girls' names becuase to him it was 'just like ordering a pizza.'

NOW THAT PISSED ME OFF!!!! It's degrading enough for women, but to say it's no different than ordering a pizza???????

These 'people' for all their 'compassion' really really bug me with all their hypocrisy. I am so sick of this administration and all it's minions and card carrying idiots.

[MADem]

18. I think not too many people confuse blowjobs with pizza...unless they're

not clear on the concept of one OR the other!!!!

Warn the innocents!!! Don't accept any pizza party invitations from Pervy Tobias, now!

As for the administration, that's all they are--minions and idiots. Ya gotta pass the loyalty test, and nothing else, to find work with these bozos. That way Dumbya really CAN be the smartest guy in the room...!

[Cha]

21. randy tobias is also degrading

Pizza by refering to it in his defense of ordering prostitutes when he's a no condom, abstinence kinda guy or so he says.

The corporatemedia should have a contest to see who's the bigger hypocrite in the bushit regime..:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[durtee librul]

15. You need to ask what they were 'massaging'

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. Wonder if he used a condom?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. Wasn't Mark Foley one of the crusaders against child abuse?

and apparently committed acts in private that were of a type that he directly condemned in public?

Republican hypocrisy marches on.

[Miss Chybil]

7. Despicable.

How many people die because of these hypocritical bastards? I hope karma is real.

[whistle]

9. Rethuglican credo, "Don't do what I do, do what I tell you to do!"

[HockeyMom]

11. Sex = Marriage = Babies

Except for THEM. Do as I SAY, not as I DO.

[WiseButAngrySara]

13. This is insanity. ....n/t

[Tom Joad]

17. He is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths by the policies he

supported. Condoms save lives.

This is one level, just another amusing story of Bush Co. amazing hypocrisy. But we should be dead serious about demanding a change in policy to stem the spread of AIDS.

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/04/30/philip8520.htm

The Philippines is courting an HIV/AIDS explosion by pandering to religious objections to condom use, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
" The Philippines is courting an AIDS epidemic with its anti-condom approach. The casualties will be millions of people who cannot protect themselves from HIV infection. "
Jonathan Cohen, researcher with Human Rights Watch’s HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program



Testimonies from "Unprotected: Sex, Condoms, and the Human Right to Health in the Philippines"
Testimony, May 4, 2004

The Philippine government’s inadequate HIV-prevention policies put at grave risk large numbers of men, women and children who could contract this incurable disease. Condoms are the only widely available device for preventing sexual transmission of HIV and have proven highly effective when used correctly and consistently.

“The Philippines is courting an AIDS epidemic with its anti-condom approach,” said Jonathan Cohen, a researcher with Human Rights Watch’s HIV/AIDS Program and author of the report. “The casualties will be millions of people who cannot protect themselves from HIV infection.”

In its 70-page report, Unprotected: Sex, Condoms, and the Human Right to Health in the Philippines, Human Rights Watch said that the Philippine government bans the use of national funds for condom supplies. Some local authorities, such as the mayor of Manila City, prohibit the distribution of condoms in government health facilities. School-based HIV/AIDS educators told Human Rights Watch that schools often prohibited them from discussing condoms with students.

The United States announced in 2002 that it would no longer donate condoms to the Philippines, causing an unprecedented condom supply crisis. The announcement coincided with the scaling up of U.S.-funded “abstinence until marriage” programs, now a staple of U.S. foreign AIDS policy. Since President George W. Bush took office in 2000, his administration has removed information about condoms from government websites, appointed physicians who oppose condoms as high-level advisers on HIV/AIDS, and opposed references to condoms in United Nations policy documents. The United States opposed a reference to “consistent condom use” at the 2002 Asian and Pacific Population Conference.

[StefanX]

19. Condoms save lives. Bush's "AIDS czar" isn't just a hypcrite -- he's a murderer as well

nt

[givemebackmycountry]

20. Yet another PIG repuke who went for a massage and didn't get...

A HAPPY ENDING.

Serves him right.

[StefanX]

22. Update: prostitute client forced US-based anti-AIDS groups to take "anti-prostitution loyalty oath"

Former U.S. AID director Randall Tobias, who resigned yesterday upon admitting that he frequented a Washington escort service, oversaw a controversial policy advocated by the religious right that required any US-based group receiving anti-AIDS funds to take an anti-prostitution “loyalty oath.”

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/28/dcmadam-fallout/

Whatever the hell that means. Did it mean that groups receiving anti-AIDS funds couldn't use those funds to help prostitutes or escorts avoid AIDS?

I am so sick and tired of US medical policies being dictated by superstitious nutjobs (the religious right).

[Hubert Flottz]

23. Newt For Wholesale Czar 2008!

[progressoid]

24. K&R just for the pic!

[Cass]

25. You can't make this stuff up!

:o

[calimary]

26. Oh, Dear GOD! I LOVE that cartoon!!!

There goes my keyboard...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[AnneD]

27. It just can't get any funnier than this.....

:popcorn: anyone got any butter salt...where's my coke.

[guitar man]

28. bwahahahahah!!!

that cartoon is killing me!!!! :rofl: :rofl: