Horse's Asses': Multiple Sclerosis-Afflicted Cavuto Slams MSNBC's Attacks on Ann Romney

MSNBC's continuous string of near slander against Mitt Romney has just spawned yet another aggressive bit of push-back, this time from Neil Cavuto of Fox News. You may recall that MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell recently slammed Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney, for claiming that she participates in the sport of dressage as therapy for her multiple sclerosis. According to O'Donnell, "There are a lot of things you can do to try to deal with MS.  But come on, dressage does not appear in any of the more traditional courses of treatment.”

Turns out that that assertion is breathtakingly wrong, as Cavuto pointed out while citing multiple clinical organizations that treat multiple sclerosis and consider horse therapy a very traditional, and often very effective form of therapy. Watch his takedown here:

As you can plainly see, Cavuto doesn't pull punches in this clip. "You've got a disease in your name - maybe you should stop calling names," he starts the segment.

He then proceeds to go right for the jugular, while still remaining preternaturally calm, calling MSNBC a collection of "horse's asses" and slamming them as "condescending, sanctimonious" people with "incredible ignorance" of multiple sclerosis treatments. He then points out that the horse riding therapy - known as "hippotherapy," according to Cavuto - is used to treat walking conditions associated with multiple sclerosis. Quoting from the "industry bible" on neurology, Cavuto says straight out that "this is a legitimate therapy."

Cavuto's stern correction only serves to confirm the generally low opinion of MSNBC which is beginning to percolate amongst the rest of the media. Glenn Beck, for instance, hammered the network over its smear tactics on his radio show today after savaging their most recent factual errors:

"You have no credibility at all," Beck thundered. "The ratings are going to tank on MSNBC, because Americans are fair."

On a side note, setting aside the numerous factual errors on the network, Cavuto's takedown misses a blistering example of hypocrisy on the part of Lawrence O'Donnell. To complain about how particular therapies don't appear on the "traditional" list, when the Left has pushed for numerous untested medical ideas, such as embryonic stem cell research and assisted suicide. Neither of these is in any way "traditional," and O'Donnell is not on record opposing either of them, so why the selectiveness?