Jezebel flagged this job listing that looks suspiciously like a listing for Karen Handel’s job.
Apparently, Komen is looking for a Director of Public Policy. Karen Handel’s current position is Vice President of Public Policy. Looks like somebody’s about to get got:
In the middle of the firestormy crap tornado that engulfed Susan G. Komen for the Cure last week, alittle job listing was quietly posted in a DC paper’s classified section. Could it be for Karen Handel’s replacement?
Ari Fleischer — who once criticized Planned Parenthood as a “partisan, ideological organization that receives undeserved positive coverage in the press”– secretly helped Komen for the Cure figure out what to do with its pesky Planned Parenthood problem.
From Think Progress:
Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush and prominent right-wing pundit, secretly helped guide Komen Foundation’s disastrous strategy regarding Planned Parenthood. Fleischer personally interviewed candidates for the position of “Senior Vice President for Communications and External Relations” at Komen last December. According to a source with first-hand knowledge, Fleischer drilled prospective candidates during their interviews on how they would handle the controversy about Komen’s relationship with Planned Parenthood.
Fleischer’s relationship with Komen and the Planned Parenthood controversy was previously undisclosed.
This woman is a true inspiration. I cried, I laughed, and then I clapped at the end:
Bravo!
(h/t @findbenjamin)
[via MoveOn]
Posted in Body/Health Shenanigans, Kick Ass, Lady Bits, Respect
Tagged breast cancer, Komen for the Cure, MoveOn, videos
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.”
~snip~
The great thing about this Komen disaster is that I learned a lot about what Komen is really about: Komen seems to be about Komen. And while they are conveniently backpedaling (while talking out of both sides of their mouths), the pink cat is out of the bag with respect to their lobbying against breast-health, their “pinkwashing,” the millions spent to defend their trademark from use by other charities, and the lavish salaries the board members pay themselves.
Dallas News is reporting that Komen for the Cure just released a statement from Nancy Brinker and the Komen Board of Directors:
We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.
The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.
Really? First of all, it’s tacky as hell. Second of all — really!?
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Posted in Body/Health Shenanigans, War on Women
Tagged guns, Komen, Komen for the Cure, pinkwashing, Planned Parenthood
Pssssst. Komen. You know the purported reason you cut funding to Planned Parenthood – because they are under federal investigation? The rule you made up recently, right after hiring a rabid pro-forced-birther as VP of Public Policy?
You have another grant recipient who is in the same boat: the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, who is, of course, affiliated with Penn State University, which is, as you probably know, under investigation for covering up alleged child rape by one of its employees. I linked to part four of the series I did on the issue, and it has links to the other three posts I wrote if you care to read more about the case.
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