Ousted Komen VP Karen Handel, not content to let teh stupid quietly fade away, is on a
crusade. It's difficult to be sure, but she's either out to destroy Planned Parenthood or
she's out to destroy whatever shreds remain of her own credibility. Her first stop on the whine country tour was wingnut propaganda central, aka Fox News, of course. Today Handel went running to the
TheDailyBeast to whine, bitch, moan and lie, lie, lie...
Here's some
exceprts from the interview, along with some much needed reality to dispell
Handel's endless stream of bullshit:
“The idea that anyone would suggest Komen had a political agenda is absurd,” Handel told The Daily Beast. “Komen is a breast-cancer organization—that’s what it does.” Instead, she accused Planned Parenthood of making the matter political, saying the group had “unleashed Armageddon” by launching a social-media firestorm. “Planned Parenthood is a gigantic bully, using Komen as its own personal punching bag,” she said.
In point of fact, PP has no magical, mystical sway over the denizens of Twitter or Facebook. The social media firestorm was spontaneous, instantaneous and in direct response to January 31 AP exclusive report of Komen's blatantly political decision.
“It’s no secret that for some years—long before my time—Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants. The issue would flare up, then die down, then flare up again. It was fairly cyclical. But over the summer, it intensified. More donors said they were pulling out. The issue was ratcheting up. It wasn’t dying down. “Two dozen Catholic bishops were saying not to support Komen,” she continued. “We needed to find some options for moving to neutral ground. I was tasked with doing that.” She added, “An inordinate amount of staff time was spent trying to manage the controversy. We should be able to focus on our own mission and not be distracted by the controversy of another organization.”
Okay, so the decision obviously WAS entirely political, and had everything to do with abortion, the "controversy" to which you refer. Gotcha...
The decision to cut funding was vetted by the board, she said, and it was in line with Komen regulations not to fund organizations that have been barred from receiving government funding. Planned Parenthood has been barred from receiving funding in some states, she said.
YOU set the asinine, now trashed "under investigation" policy, Karen, and no, Karen, PP has most certainly NOT "been barred" from receiving funding in any state for any reason, not now, not ever. Your claim is what is known in technical circles is known as BULLSHIT.
“There was an open and candid conversation (with PP pres Cecile Richards) about the (totally non-politica) controversy (over the politics of abortion) and the effect on Komen. There was a gentle ladies’ agreement, if you will, that no one was going to go to the press about this,” Handel said. In the agreement, she said, Komen offered to continue funding current grants, but not future ones.
Um, a "gentle ladies" agreement? Gag...
“What happened is nothing short of a disgrace. Cecile Richards put this issue in the press. There was a coordinated effort to get sites like moveon.org and change.org involved. There was an orchestrated, premeditated attempt to put this issue in the press. Talk about betrayal by Planned Parenthood—against an organization that took up for it for years.”
Bullshit. This is a pure, unadulterated Grade AAA USDA Prime lie. No, Karen, in point of fact Cecile Richards DID NOT go the press. That's a lie. In point of fact, it was ANTI-CHOICE right wing websites that bragged about Komen's political move, after they learned about it from anti-choice Komen insiders.
The
AP exclusive that "broke" this story ran on January 31. But Christian website LifeNews had reported the story six weeks before, on December 14th and again on the 20th. ChristianNewsBuzz picked up the story on December 28. The Alliance Defense Fund, Lifeway Christian Resources, Americans United for Life and other anti-choice groups were bragging on Komen's PP slap-down back in December and taking credit for pressuring them into this balatantly political action. It was from these and other anti-choice sources that the AP first learned of Komen's decision. The rest of the media then responded to the AP report.
And no, the social media firestorm was NOT "generated." Only a paranoid wingnut imbecile would posit that anyone or any group had the magical, mystical power to make Facebook and Twitter erupt on command within minutes of the AP report hitting the mainstream press.
Handel, who ran for governor of Georgia in 2010 on an anti-abortion platform, denied that her political views played a role at Komen. She laughed when she heard that a blog had called her a “martyr for the pro-life cause.” She said, “There’s a great deal of irony in that when I ran for governor, I was not pro-life enough.” Her plan now, she said, “is going for some runs.”
Oh, cry me a river, you lying sack of wingnut poop. "Not pro-life enough"? Going for runs? More like striking out.
So, when you ran for Gov as a tea bagger with an anti-choice platform as your primary issue and promised that, if elected, you'd ban Planned Parenthood, that just wasn't anti-choice enough? When
you wrote...
"I am staunchly and unequivocally pro-life. I believe in the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life, and I will be a pro-life governor who will work tirelessly to promote a culture of life in Georgia,"
...that wasn't anti-choice enough?
Really?
<blink-blink>
Or how about
this quote...
First, let me be clear, since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.
Who is it you think stupid enough to buy into the huge, steaming pile of happy horse poop you're peddling, Karen?
