This is unbelievable if by unbelievable I mean completely predictable. You’ll remember how the Tuscon tragedy was blamed on conservatives with absolutely no evidence (or logic). Well now, some are attempting to blame conservatives for the mass murder of babies in Philadelphia.
John Sexton at Hot Air’s Green Room writes:
Maybe you thought last week’s exercise in futility was going to be a teachable moment for the left. For some, it probably was. Even the NY Times made a half-assed admission of failure.
One week later, Amanda Marcotte is right back to the playbook, this time blaming the murders committed by pro-choice abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell on conservative pro-lifers:
Marcotte’s “reasons” are:
1)Us pro-life extremists have placed a stigma on abortion so not many doctors want to perform them so we’re essentially forcing women to go to nutty mass murdering doctors.
2)These women could have gone to the wonderful Dr. Tiller but us pro-life extremist nuts killed him.
Marcotte’s logic (if by logic you mean insane ramblings) is fun to read in a masochistic way but I wouldn’t advise it.
But John Sexton’s take down of her is a great read. Continue reading at the Green Room.
January 22, 2011 at 2:52 pm
But it works. Remember how Palin has been pulled in the Tucson massacre and how the immoral media repeated the linkage ad nauseam? Now I read posts blaming Palin for the toxic atmosphere in the public square.
We need to respond to lunacies like this with letters to the editor threatening a boycott of their sponsors.
January 22, 2011 at 5:01 pm
haha.. "letters to the editor threatening a boycott of their sponsors." What a joke. How much good has that done in the past? It might make a 10 minute news cycle. But companies like Viacom and MTV will only continue to program shows like "Skins" because that's they attract the advertising dollar by drawling an audience. Look at TV 30 years ago vs. today. Umm, yeah, let's write letter and boycott the sponsors…
January 22, 2011 at 5:04 pm
"Us pro-life extremists have placed a stigma on abortion so not many doctors want to perform them so we're essentially forcing women to go to nutty mass murdering doctors."
The implicit message here (flip it on its head) is that the only doctors who aren't convinced sufficiently by the pro-life movement that abortion is at least a sordid business are "nutty mass-murdering doctors." Interesting. If women seeking abortion have no alternative to crazy, evil doctors, then it seems all the sane doctors are pro-life or at least respect for or fear the pro-life movement (or else were simply drawn to other professions). Either way, the message that "the only doctors convicted enough by their pro-abortion beliefs to do anything about it are the crazy ones" isn't bound to prove much for the pro-aborts.
January 22, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Taco Bell has pull its advertising from "skins."
I don't know if it's because of the uproar or not but I do know that writing snail mail letters telling the sponsors about the boycott will get their attention.
Don't knock it.
January 22, 2011 at 8:36 pm
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
Thou shall love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole heart, you whole strength…
The Sovereign Catholic Church is guided by canon law. The Catholic Church offers worship to almighty God through the Sacraments and the Holy Mass and forgives sins through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Penance. The Sacrament of the Holy Orders is closed to all but the ordained ministers for consecrating the Sacred Species. The Sacrament of Reconciliation, the forgiveness of sins, is closed to all but the ordained ministers of the Sacrament of Penance. The Sovereign Catholic Church is guided by the Magisterium, the teaching of the church, ex cathedra . The Sovereign Catholic Church is sovereign through its calling to worship God, WHO is TRUTH.
Therefore, the Sovereign Catholic Church answers ONLY to GOD.
You shall love your neighbor as yourself…
The Sovereign State, nation, is guided by human law. The state is entrust with the sovereign personhood of each of its citizens, but more so, with each and every sovereign human being whose sovereign personhood constitutes it and brings the state, nation into existence. The state( government by the people, of the people and for the people ) is public domain. NO PRIVACY. Everything belongs to every human being ever created. Should King Solomon rise from the dead, all persons who have gone before us as our ancestors and all generation to come after us, our constitutional posterity, all own and constitute our state, nation. PUBLIC DOMAIN…NO PRIVACY, not for abortion, homosexual behavior, taxation without representation, any, and all crime, come under public scrutiny through PUBLIC DOMAIN.
All freedom, of religion, speech, press and peaceable assembly is PUBLIC DOMAIN. E Pluribus Unum
In the Sovereign Catholic Church all is sacred and privileged information as between a doctor and his patient, an advocate and his client, because of sovereign personhood.
In the Sovereign State, nation, all is PUBLIC DOMAIN, all persons are required to respect the privileged rights (through the Sovereignty endowed by OUR CREATOR of every other person, their neighbor.) All truth must be witnessed by the testimony of TWO witnesses. Therefore, if any one says that he is a practicing homosexual, or married, he would have to prove his statement before two witnesses, as the kings and queens did before their Bishops after their exchange of vows. There is no PUBLIC RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA except as a sovereign person. All is PUBLIC DOMAIN as the nation is constituted by every sovereign citizen and those gone before us and those to come.
Every marital act must remain open to the public in the person of another human being. This being said, there is no right to privacy for abortion in the constitution. The Constitution defines the civil rights of the sovereign person. The Declaration of Independence defines the sovereign person.
January 22, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Re: Rick,
Yes, it works. Reframe any assassin of a political figure as one of the Left's "enemies" and accuse the movement of creating an "atmospheres" (aka spirit) of hatred.
The trick, a slight of hand know as "framing," was originally used by the left against the Goldwater conservative movement and conservatism in general. The holding of traditional views was "framed" as hatred which caused John F. Kennedy's death (notwithstanding the fact that the official assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had a public persona as a pro-Castro communist).
This "spirit of hatred" trick, and a trick is precisely what it is, was again evoked by ABC presenter Christiane Amanpour in her show on Tucson.
The video is here
January 22, 2011 at 10:37 pm
@ Susan L: Yes Taco Bell pulled their ads for MTV's Skins, but provided free press for the show. And in the in ad, world any press is better than no press. The show up their ad rates and six additional sponsors jumped on the press wagon. The only reason the show will be pulled, it that's bad. If you watch the British version of Skins, it's excellent. The American version was recreated for idiot without a sense of humor.
Boycotting is for small minded people. It doesn't have a lasting effect on corporate America.
January 22, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Hey! Let's not blame anyone and start passing some common sense legislation that would make it harder for somebody to carry out mass murder again! There is only one reason why anyone would need a device that shoots 30 times before needing to be reloaded…TO KILL A LOT OF PEOPLE! It wasn't until that fool shot 18 people before he needed to re-load…which was the only chance the surviving victims had, to stop him! I blame the first 10 bullets on the gunman; and I blame the next 20 bullets on permissive gun laws.
January 22, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Common sense gun laws are needed. Cfr. http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/01/us-gun-rights-illustrated.html Criminals are not deterred by laws. It hamstrings the folks who could have done something. Cops are not omnipresent.
January 24, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Arizona already has gun laws in place that prohibit any criminal or person suffering from major pyschosis from purchasing one. The Tuscon Massacre was carried out by a young man who already had 3 run-ins with campus police (he was barred from entering campus), and 2 with county police and sheriff't deputies. Yet, his name wasn't included in the list that prohibits 144,000 Arizonans from purchasing firearms. I wonder why? Perhaps we should ask the Pino County Sheriff.
January 24, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Here is a guy that is on the right track on how to start putting a stop to this stupidity (caution; these Negroes are speaking in their tongue):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZkLGbqOlc&feature=player_embedded#!
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