IT’S A FRAUD
11.09.09Hey, remember Desiree Jennings? The aspiring NFL cheerleader who was crippled by dystonia after she got a flu shot? Well, it turns out that her condition is most likely psychogenic, has nothing to do with a flu shot whatsoever, and now she’s going through a “miraculous” recovery at the hands of a quack doctor who has in the past injected his patients with urine.
It’s all covered in this Respectful Insolence blog post in such thorough detail that I don’t even know what I could possibly pull as a blockquote to sum it up quickly. But long story short: stupid people — in this case, the practitioners and adherents of pseudo-science or those who fear medical vaccines — win again. They always win. (See also: Jeff Dunham’s success.)
But if there’s a silver lining here (besides Desiree recovering, that is), it’s that we can finally laugh at her Inside Edition story set to “Walk it Out” completely free of guilt. It’s the little victories.

I knew this was just a cry for attention. She must suck as a cheerleader and did this to get notice. Oh, and to Sandra. You don’t need to be preaching to us. You were obviously wondering the same thing we all were about this story. So don’t cast the first stone.
She walks like the Redskins play football, retarded.
like John McClane always says, “fuckin california”
She’s still a smash!! I’d hit It!! Swined up and all yurdmae!!
hey sandra…learn engrish. Jahovah or whomever your god is is wrong and there will be no resurrections…you live in fantasy land.
y0ou guys thats mean and also when jahovah god ressuects us all there will b no more illness or dieing or the crippled ones will be crippled no more and the blind ones will b able to see!!! and life will be beautiful!
Californina right ? figures
Did you graduate from Hollywood Upstairs Medical School too?
Dr. Leo Spaceman cures another one of life’s mysteries…
The original remix was far better, the death metal part could not be beaten
Break a leg Desiree.
This heartwarming story will probably give Desiree a leg up in her cheerleading career.
I’d still hit it.
Well, this could be controversial.
I just hope she can walk away from this.
I hope she doesn’t fake her crying when I stuff a pineapple up her ass.
I hope that someday, if not in my lifetime, that western medicine becomes strong enough to overcome the crippling disability of being associated with the Washington Redskins.
I knew her story was bogus. She didn’t have a leg to stand on.
/gets hit in face with tomato
/gets swept off stage by Sandman Sims
swine flu is just god’s way of telling old people they suck
Finally laugh?