NARAL Forced to "Walk It Back"
Even Salon (must watch ad to access) is criticizing NARAL's sleazy anti-Roberts ad as inaccurate. It likewise points out that, as noted in an LA Times piece today, Roberts decried abortion violence in a 1986 memo stating "No matter how lofty or sincerely held the goal, those who resort to violence to achieve it are criminals."
Here is a link to NARAL's statement about the ad. It includes this (rather hard to find) quote from NARAL Pro-Choice America president Nancy Keenan:
“I want to be very clear that we are not suggesting Mr. Roberts condones or supports clinic violence. I’m sure he finds bombings and murder abhorrent."
That would square with the words of your ad (that John Roberts is a judge "whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans)" -- how, exactly? He doesn't "condone" or "support" violence -- he just "excuses" it??? Hmm, I'm confused. We'll need Mario Cuomo to explain this one for us . . ..
We're waiting for your apology, Ms. Keenan.
Here is a link to NARAL's statement about the ad. It includes this (rather hard to find) quote from NARAL Pro-Choice America president Nancy Keenan:
“I want to be very clear that we are not suggesting Mr. Roberts condones or supports clinic violence. I’m sure he finds bombings and murder abhorrent."
That would square with the words of your ad (that John Roberts is a judge "whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans)" -- how, exactly? He doesn't "condone" or "support" violence -- he just "excuses" it??? Hmm, I'm confused. We'll need Mario Cuomo to explain this one for us . . ..
We're waiting for your apology, Ms. Keenan.
posted by LadybugUSA at 10:02 AM
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I don't like their ad. It should be pulled.
But I also didn't like TV commercial that Republican challenger Saxby Chambliss ran against Max Clelland. It opened with pictures of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, then attacked Cleland for voting against President Bush's Homeland Security bill. It didn't mention that Cleland supported a Democratic bill that wasn't radically different.
I didn't like it when O'Reilly called former Georgia Senator Max Cleland a "bombthrower" as footage of the legless Vietnam veteran rolled in the background. Cleland lost his legs when a GRENADE blew them off..in Vietnam, where most of those in this administration found ways to avoid.
I didn't like it when Ann Coulter wrote and went on air saying “If Cleland had dropped a grenade on himself at Fort Dix rather than in Vietnam, he would never have been a U.S. Senator in the first place. Maybe he’d be the best pharmacist in Atlanta,”
“He didn't ‘give his limbs for his country,’ or leave them ‘on the battlefield,’” Coulter said. “There was no bravery involved in dropping a grenade on himself with no enemy troops in sight.”
The legacy with this President is the hate filled rhetoric that is encouraged. It divides us as a society and we simply can not survive as a country without finding some common ground.
Max Clelland is still waiting for an apology from Ann, O'Reilly, Saxby and the RNC.
Do you have any pull with NARAL, Jill?
Well, Jill, if you called them up and persuaded them, you did a good job.
NARAL pulled the ad.
And rightly so.
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