After two days of gloating over Komen’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood, Wingnut Nation now has a great big sad about Komen’s non-reversal reversal:
Mona Charen of the National Review Online lamented that “it’s extremely disappointing that Komen has caved” but “it’s hardly surprising given the onslaught they’ve endured over the course of the last few days,” and NRO’s Daniel Foster charged Planned Parenthood with “gangsterism.”
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Catholic Family and Human Rights Initiative (C-Fam) president Austin Ruse told LifeSiteNews called potentially successful effort to have the Komen foundation reverse their decision defunding Planned Parenthood a “mafia shakedown.”
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Kristen Walker of Live Action called it a “terrible shame that Komen has caved in to political pressure from pro-abortion fanatics who demand obeisance to Planned Parenthood.”
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Evangelist Bill Keller warned that the latest move by the Komen foundation may well lead to “the wrath and punishment of God unleashed on this wicked nation at any moment”:
I love the smell of hypocrisy in the early afternoon. You see, when the wingnuts mobilize to push an agenda, they’re doing it for Liberty or Free Market Jesus. But when the left mobilizes and pushes back to protect women’s health, it’s ZOMG! MAFIA SHAKEDOWN END OF DAYS GOD’S WRATH ARGLEBARGLE.
Render unto me a break already.
Sorry, wingnuts. You’re not pushing your forced birth agenda on us — not today.
[via Right Wing Watch]
The Butt-hurt Inquisition… Yooo Hoooo, Saturday Night Liiiiiive…
That’s fucking rich, considering that they’re the ones who blow things up and shoot people when they don’t get their way. Hypocrisy, thy name is forced-birther.
Again, I think this whole incident will end up as a textbook case of Nonprofit Management FAIL! They didn’t understand the depth and passion of support most non-wingnut, non-Karen Handel folks have for Planned Parenthood’s preventative health services, they didn’t get their damn cover stories together in a convincing way as to WHY they were changing their funding priorities (which, by itself, isn’t all that unusual — NPFs do it all the time, but they usually have a good solid reason for WHY they are changing). And in the end, they caved because they couldn’t stand the heat.
If I were a Komen donor, I’d still have them on my shitlist (quite aside from everything else), solely on the basis of horrible mismanagement and public relations idiocy.
When its from the left, its a mafia shakedown, but its patriotic when its from the right?
oh, by the way, its coming out former Bush press sec’y, Ari Fleischer was in on this Komen shit from jump
Yep, AD. He was, according to this story from Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/03/418797/exclusive-ari-fleischer-komen-planned-parenthood/
Fleischer indicated that he had discussed the Planned Parenthood issue with Komen’s CEO, Nancy Brinker, and that she was at her wits end about how to proceed. Fleischer described himself as a longtime friend of Brinker.
Yikes, I have a hot-potato PR/politics problem that needs to be handled with a great deal of competence and sensitivity. Oh, thank goodness I’m old friends with that fellow from the Bush White House’s media office! I’d better ring him right up.
National Review went after the Ford Foundation particularly viciously back in the early, exciting years of the War on Terror. They weren’t anti-Muslim enough or something.
Point is, this wailing and gnashing of teeth over someone daring to pressure a charitable organization over its politics is pretty rich coming from that crowd.
Send some cheese to these guys to go with their whine. SGK was trying to play on both sides of the fence and decided that they can have their cake and eat it too, but got called out on their bullsh!t. If SGK wants to play high and mighty and roll with the ‘lifers, so be it. But don’t expect to keep paying crazy 6 figure salaries to closet freepers cause even teabaggers are cutting back. And a dollar knows no idiology.
I gave to Planned Parenthood just to piss Handel off, oh yah and to help women too.
Wow. Just… wow, that’s special.
Time to burn SGK to the ground, salt the earth, and piss on the fucking ashes.
I don’t think SGK liked the reactions it received after trying to do the bidding of Fleischer and the RW nuts in Congress and around the country. Brinker’s interview with Andrea Mitchell showed the world she knew that she didn’t have a real reason for the foundation’s decision to de-fund PP. Although Brinker lied about the support the foundation was receiving after it de-funded PP, I believe otherwise. It was not helpful that PP raised over $600,000 in less than 24 hours, or that Bloomberg pledged to give $250,000 to PP. It was also revealed that the foundation has high profile RW extremists involved in its operations (Handel & Fleischer.) The negative reaction to SGK’s decision on FB and Twitter were overwhelming. In light of these occurrences, I believed the foundation caved to save face and to dim the spotlight that was shining brightly on it and revealing that the organization’s #1 purpose is not women’s health, but good old fashion RW social engineering via politics.
“Evangelist Bill Keller warned that the latest move by the Komen foundation may well lead to ‘the wrath and punishment of God unleashed on this wicked nation at any moment’”
Funny, I thought that was what would happen with Komen’s first move – the one where they tried to sacrifice the health of women for their crazy right wing ideology.
I don’t know, they’ve threatened said wrath and punishment for many other things, and I’m still waiting…