Media genuflect before the church of Planned Parenthood
Claire Shipman reports with lots of war language about firestorms erupting and the like. She says:
That ubiquitous pink ribbon for decades uniting women in the greater good is sporting a black eye today. Thousands of women saying they will no longer support the Komen foundation or buy pink. Women like Monique Benoit who benefited from a Komen Planned Parenthood mammogram.
See that? Women such as myself who couldn’t in good conscience support Komen while it funneled money to Planned Parenthood are completely invisible to the mainstream media. We don’t exist. We don’t matter. We are never mentioned in this report. We are never pictured in this report. We are invisible to ABC News and others. That pink ribbon “united women” so long as it was associated with an organization that terminates 330,000 pregnancies a year. But now that it’s not, it’s not uniting women? In what world does that make sense?
And about this Komen Planned Parenthood mammogram … how is that possible when Planned Parenthood doesn’t offer mammograms? Great reporting, ABC! Of course, you’ll note that the woman who received this mammogram is stationed in front of Planned Parenthood signage offering the exact same talking point as everyone else who launched this public relations campaign against Komen. That line, again, is that a decision to cease funding the country’s largest abortion provider is “becoming” political. Funding that abortion provider? Just ask Andrea Mitchell, it’s as apolitical as the day is long! Can’t we all be bipartisan Planned Parenthood fans and champions?
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The left in this country make me spiritually and physically ill every single day with their illogic.
But the sad reality is that they are in the thrall of the god of this world.
2 Cor. 4:4″In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
Logus on February 3, 2012 at 11:35 PM
I thought the mammogram thing was a Planned Parenthood bait and switch, for political cover, but silly me, I just realized, dead baby girls don’t get breast cancer. Liberals are so smart. They see the big picture.
RBMN on February 3, 2012 at 11:39 PM
Watching the clip makes me dizzy. I think Diane Sawyer suffers from the same affliction as Michael J Fox (seriously) as she moves constantly while speaking. Her head bobbing and weaving the whole time.
That and hearing 637 times the term “womens health” instead of the real term “abortion” makes me dizzy too.
Tim Zank on February 3, 2012 at 11:40 PM
Tim Zank, your website needs a warning before it fully loads!
Just sayin’.
o_O
Logus on February 3, 2012 at 11:44 PM
That’s not a black eye – it’s blood.
rukiddingme on February 3, 2012 at 11:58 PM
What do you expect from the MSM bootlicking jack napes, honesty in reporting? Pelosi and her trashy ilk could behead Diane Sawyer live on her set and the rest of the media would spend the following three days complimenting Pelosi on her cutting technique.
Bishop on February 4, 2012 at 12:06 AM
Photoshop!
slickwillie2001 on February 4, 2012 at 12:15 AM
here is what you should learn from this….the main stream media won, bigtime. this puts the lie to the myth that Repub party should nominate a progressive like Romney to get moderate and independent votes….
we never learn….McCain is a progressive and we see how that worked out
georgealbert on February 4, 2012 at 7:54 AM
and thus, another culture battle was lost, again, by the social conservatives. do you guys ever win something?
nathor on February 4, 2012 at 8:43 AM
Its a bit of a problem that the corporatist cons and the social liberals win the most. At times I’d like for that to be reversed.
libfreeordie on February 4, 2012 at 8:50 AM
http://gawker.com/5791100/watch-stephen-colberts-defense-of-planned-parenthood
libfreeordie on February 4, 2012 at 9:00 AM
true. but regarding the social cons, the number of issues i would like to see them win is quite reduced.
nathor on February 4, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Well, technically, a black eye is blood, just subcutaneous.
Count to 10 on February 4, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Your idea of winning is killing innocents?
darwin on February 4, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Koch Industries needs to start providing mammograms. See what the rats have to say when the GOP cuts them taxpayer checks, you know, to fight cancer.
The Count on February 4, 2012 at 9:27 AM
what you lost was that cultural idea that we should force women to carry on the pregnancy when it is undesired.
nathor on February 4, 2012 at 9:55 AM
So lethal force is now permissible in preventing oneself from doing anything undesirable?
I’m sorry that you’ve lowered the life of an innocent child to the level of desire. Also, there is a fool proof method for avoiding pregnancy if it isn’t desired.
darwin on February 4, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Damn, if only there was some way to prevent getting pregnant in the first place!
JohnBrown on February 4, 2012 at 10:27 AM
abstinence? or is it the contraception that so little time ago a Christian organization like the catholic church railed against?
maybe one day you will get your prohibition on abortions and have the days of illegal abortions and self inducted abortions back.
saving those innocents is a lofty goal, but the hosts of those innocents might dont like the idea that the saving is done on their expense and will to anything to avoid it, including risking their own lifes.
nathor on February 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM
contraception that organizations like PP help supply and Christian organization like the catholic church disapprove?
nathor on February 4, 2012 at 11:00 AM