In the very heart of the pro-life community, there is nothing they wanted less than another shooting of an abortionist. An unhinged vigilante's shooting of notorious Kansas late-term abortion "provider" George Tiller prompted an avalanche of press releases from pro-life groups denouncing the killing.
Why bother? Let's face it. The national media had zero interest in spotlighting a pro-life spokesman expressing horror, because let's face it, they don't believe it. Instead, as with ABC, they found anonymous citizens on the website Twitter saying "Oh, happy, day. Tiller the baby killer is dead." Another wrote, "God bless the gunman."
It was time for a barrage of liberal mudslinging. Keith Olbermann started his MSNBC program with these words: "A religious jihad by fundamentalist crusaders who believe that murder is justified, their acts of violence having the intended effect of changing behavior. Our fifth story on the Countdown: Not the Taliban, not Hamas, not al Qaeda."
He was referring to conservative politicans and bloggers and the Fox News Channel. Olbermann insisted there was a "straight line" of culpability from Fox News to the Tiller shooter. He played clips of O'Reilly disparaging Tiller: "For 5,000 dollars, Tiller, the baby killer, as some call him, will perform a late-term abortion for just about any reason." And: "Tiller the baby killer out in Kansas, acquitted. Acquitted today of murdering babies. There`s got to be a special place in hell for this guy."
Olbermann was so offended he called for a boycott of businesses that allow a Fox News infection in public.
"Don't write a letter, don't make a threat, just get up and explain, if they will not change the channel," he exclaimed, "leave the place and say calmly why it is you are taking your business elsewhere. If you know a viewer of that channel, show them this tape, or just the tape of the attacks on Dr. Tiller that set the stage for his assassination. Fox News Channel will never restrain itself from incitement to murder and terrorism, not until its profits begin to decline, when its growth stops. So not so much a boycott here as a quarantine, because this has got to stop."
The Tiller assassination? Olbermann insisted that the mere act of denouncing Tiller as killer of babies – as if he were instead removing tumors – is an invitation to terrorism and murder. This was not a call for moderation by the pro-life movement, but for rhetorical surrender. The media demanded that pro-lifers stop defining abortion as the ending of a human life. Such a definition was so raw and emotional that it somehow disfigured the "truth" that this is merely a woman-saving health procedure that was not only legal, but commendable.
While they pawed through Twitter looking for anti-Tiller "hate speech," liberal journalists expressed no distaste for the revoltingly gilded rhetoric in praise of this monster. In the Washington Times, reporter Julia Duin found the "Very Reverend" Katharine Ragsdale of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts to express how the "choice" advocates felt. "This is about the loss of a man who was a saint and a martyr," she said in an interview. "He was a prayerful man who put his life at risk to protect others and died for it."
Over on National Public Radio, "Talk of the Nation" host Neal Conan was hoping the polls would tilt back to the left: "There was a recent Gallup poll that suggested that opinion on abortion had actually shifted in this country toward the pro-life side, sort of, outside of the context of Kansas in -- on the national level -- there might be some concern that if the pro-life movement is associated with vigilante tactics like this, again, that could cut in to those gains."
His guest, Wichita Eagle reporter Dion Lefler, agreed: "Yeah. I think that it could. I mean, you know, every time there's an incident like this, I mean, you will -- one prominent pro-life person here in town told me that he thought that if this guy is linked to the movement then it's going to set them back 20 years."
That's exactly what the pro-abortion media would love to accomplish. They're willing to smear the pro-life movement with the mud of the militia movement or al-Qaeda if it will enable their cause. There is no extreme, and no mainstream. There is only a ghastly, murderous blur.
George Tiller was a monster who personally murdered 60,000 babies. May God have mercy on his soul.
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Retroactive birth control
June 2, 2009 - 22:06 ET by obageegeeCan we make birth control retroactive for Keith's Mom?
Does Olberman still have a show?
June 2, 2009 - 22:21 ET by sevenIs foxnews his only topic or is he becoing open to other topics?
"This is about the loss of
June 2, 2009 - 22:34 ET by motherbelt"This is about the loss of a man who was a saint and a martyr," she
said in an interview. "He was a prayerful man who put his life at risk
to protect others and died for it."
Oh please.
Abortion is a blessing. Tiller saved women's lives who undoubtedly would have been desperate enough to use coat hangers and die if he didn't help them.
He's a true American hero.
\sarc
Have some more Kool-Aid honey.
And of course the MSM join in, Olbermann at the front, blaming it all on one man, Bill O'Reilly.
And of course, if one pro-life advocate was off-kilter enough to take the law into his own hands and dispatch Tiller, that means that all pro-life advocates would do the same; they are all extremists willing to kill.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
What a marvelous coincidence
June 3, 2009 - 01:42 ET by KC MulvilleWhat a marvelous coincidence that the object of Olbermann's accusations happens to be his television competitor, who demolishes Olbermann in the ratings every night!
One anti-abortion person out
June 3, 2009 - 06:13 ET by GrannyGrump42One anti-abortion person out of 160 million (and he with a longstanding history of schizophrenia) shoots an abortionist. That makes us all violent psychopaths.
Scores of pro-abortion men murder women who refuse to get abortions. Scores more beat the women into miscarriages as the women plead for their babies' lives. And abortionists kill patients by doing things like having their "hand-holders" with no medical training assist in general anesthesia, putting hemorrhaging patients in wheelchairs and shoving them out the door to die, and refusing to provide aftercare for dangerously injured patients.
But it's not the pro-aboriton people who are violent and dangerous! It's the anti-abortion people. As evidenced by the actions of one out of 160 million.
I'm recalling Katie Couric
June 2, 2009 - 22:32 ET by bulletproofI'm recalling Katie Couric laying blame for the beating death of the midwest "homosexual" boy some 11 years ago on Focus on the Family's Dr. James Dobson. A brilliant piece of liberal journalism if there ever was (which there never is).
Excuse me, Keith, but didn't you spew hatred and threats against the former POTUS? You should be waterboarded for that whole "shoe" thing! And while we're busy reaping what we sow, minds like Keith's are busy blaming the meek and the poor for all the calamity. I sense a growing danger for free speech and freedom of religion.
Never use your gun to pistol-wip a Liberal (that could mar the finish).
American "journalism" is
June 2, 2009 - 22:46 ET by d1carterAmerican "journalism" is dead...sad.
Why Not Waterboard Both Olberfuher And O'Reilly?
June 2, 2009 - 23:39 ET by The7SticksFair enough. Since Keith Olberfuher also incites hatred against supporters of frm. President Bush, he should get an equal amount of waterboarding along with O'Reilly for inciting hatred against Dr. Tiller. Equal amounts are always fair.
And by the way, you are no more pious than the left-wingers who try to monopolize on the murder of Dr. Tiller. You are doing the exact same thing by adding the "Dr. Tiller's murder was despicable, but..." There's that interjection lingo again. You are monopolizing by name-calling based off of some beliefs implied by this Christian God of yours. The document you are supposed to follow is the Constitution of the United States, not the Bible. If you follow that book before you follow the Constitution of the United States of America, you are no better than those left-wingers who follow the Communist Manifesto or Das Kapital over the Constitution of the United States of America.
You are in no position anyway to claim who was a monster because: 1.) Abortion is legal under most circumstances (except for partial birth abortion) and Dr. Tiller was acquitted from his trial because he was not breaking any law involving murder because everyone knows that abortion is not murder. How many scientific explanations do I have to go over to tell you so? He broke the law when it came to underreporting his tax evasion, and was charged accordingly, but he was found not guilty by the court of his peers regarding the murder charges.;
2.) You have a little dirty laundry yourself involving regarding the extremist anti-abortion activities your daddy and mommy participated in, as I have exposed previously, but just to remind you so:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944324-2,00.html
and just to be specific, here's an excerpt that'll speak for itself:
"...None of the angry words have equaled the angry action of the ultra-right Sons of Thunder in Washington, D.C. Dressed in khaki shirts and red berets, they invaded a Washington clinic last May to protest the abortions performed there; among the invaders was L. Brent Bozell, brother-in-law of William F. Buckley and, along with Buckley's sister Patricia, an editor of Triumph magazine. Triumph's editorial support of such activism caused William Buckley last week to write that 'such analyses discredit the anti-abortion position...' "
So in conclusion, you have no authority on who's more pious. Only God (The Jewish God of the Old Testament, to be specific) can answer that, and whatever his decision is you will find out when it is your time. And I hope God does have mercy on your soul.
You must be one of the "fun ones"
June 2, 2009 - 23:57 ET by bulletproofMy how authoritative and pious you sound. No wait, you're sounding weak and foolish now! Hmmm, no you sound insightful yet vapid. Wait, wait, embarassingly unwitty. No, evil and dangerous!!!!! Evil and dangerous!!!! No......like, perhaps....SATAN!!!!!
Thank you, thank you very much! =)
Your welcome
June 3, 2009 - 01:55 ET by general companyVery funny.
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
"because everyone knows that abortion is not murder"
June 3, 2009 - 00:06 ET by bulletproofYow! Is that a subtle command in your effort to corrupt us or do you so discount the majority of the United States of America who disagrees with you that you count us as nothing at all worth counting? Evil thought, um, Dude(?).
Hey Sticks, YOU sound pretty pious with all the God talk...
June 3, 2009 - 12:56 ET by SickofLibs...especially for a self-described 'secular Jew'.
the7sticks ~ you have got to be kidding me. Your arguments are
June 3, 2009 - 13:33 ET by pahuberso juvenile that they barely deserve a response, but so brazen that it is telling for your side to repeat them:
"The document you are supposed to follow is the Constitution of the United States, not the Bible."
Really, has this become law, lately? And what would you know about the Bible? My guess is anecdotal passages.
"You are in no position anyway to claim who was a monster because: 1.)
Abortion is legal under most circumstances (except for partial birth
abortion) and Dr. Tiller was acquitted from his trial because he was
not breaking any law involving murder because everyone knows that
abortion is not murder."
1. tiller was a killer... a monster. There is no doubt. To do the things he did to a partially born human was unspeakable.
2. Everyone? Really? That is a whopper. It also sounds like you are saying it's not murder because it's legal. That is such a remarkably ignorant position to take. I suppose there are 3rd world dictators who would love you to be their spokesperson.
"How many scientific explanations do I have to go over to tell you so?"
- I have seen zero from you and would love to see you try to scientifically prove that the baby is not a life... you are a brazen individual to even suggest this.
"If you follow that book before you follow the Constitution of the
United States of America, you are no better than those left-wingers who
follow the Communist Manifesto or Das Kapital over the Constitution of the United States of America."
- This document you speak of that we follow... re-read it under the freedom of religion thingy... you may be surprised.
Abortion is not murder, really?
June 3, 2009 - 00:21 ET by stunnedtired of liberal lies
Abortion isn't murder then why the hush hush about what noble work Tiller did? Why not put it out there for all to gaze on in wonder? Why not see for yourself and check out the end for little Tess and see what Tiller was really up to. Tiller's killer must pay the price for taking a life but what price did Tiller pay for taking Tess' life? As for making judgements being un-Christian, we are all required to make judgements every day and live our lives accordingly. If words caused Tiller's death then will the left then jump all over code pink Murha, Kerry ect ect for causing the death of Pvt Long by an Islamic extremist or Islamic extermists here in this country who call for Jihad in their mosques.
http://kgov.com/gallery/abortion/wichita-memorial/memorial.html
OMG stunned
June 3, 2009 - 00:31 ET by Cool ArrowThose pictures prove what a great humanitarian, and martyr Tiller was
Did the happy couple hold hands as they flushed the little parasite?
"The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he's black". - Joe Biden
I'm suddenly incredibly
June 3, 2009 - 01:57 ET by bulletproofI'm suddenly incredibly depressed.
Thanks for the link,
June 3, 2009 - 06:18 ET by GrannyGrump42Thanks for the link, stunned.
Here are more accounts of Tiller's "heroic" work:
http://realchoice.bl...
Being murdered doesn't make you a hero. (Jeffrey Dahmer, after all, was murdered.) Being an abortionist doesn't make you a hero. (I can tell you stories that would make you vomit about what these sick bastards do to their patients, even if you think the babies' lives were worth zero.) And being a murdered abortionist doesn't make you a hero.
We need to show Tiller for who he was, and his admirers for who they are -- people who think crippling a baby by injecting formaldehyde into her brain makes you noble and brave.
Ironically, California law.......
June 3, 2009 - 01:03 ET by big.league.sliderIronically, California law considers it to be murder if you kill a fetus. A while back, a guy named Scott Peterson received a double murder charge and death sentence for killing his pregnant wife, and thus also causing the death of the unborn baby.
This type of tortured legal logic could only make sense to a liberal. Peterson deserves to die for killing his wife. But how does California's legal system justify convicting Peterson of a capital offense for essentially doing the same thing that Tiller was paid to do thousands of times? If the liberals say that the fetus is not a person and has no rights, then how can it be murdered?
"Fascism is rightly seen as the merger of the Corporation and Government." -B. Mussolini
Re California Law
June 3, 2009 - 12:29 ET by slickwillie2001This is the way of totalitarian dictators. They prefer that our system of laws be a maze that no one can understand, like the IRS Tax Code. That gives their goons total discretion as to who to charge with what, and gives their friends power to do whatever needs to be done. Only the government itself can work the system.
Awaiting the day
June 3, 2009 - 01:21 ET by PharmerCan't wait for the day when pro life leaders stop apologizing for crimes they didn't commit. They don't apologize when normal people get murdered -- just when abortionists get murdered. What makes abortionists so special?
As for pundits who speak loudly against the actions of abortionists, they owe no apology, unless you think Al Gore should apologize for his acolyte, the Unibomber, for example..
I'm not apologizing for the
June 3, 2009 - 06:21 ET by GrannyGrump42I'm not apologizing for the crime Roeder committed, any more than I'm apologizing for the crime that was committed when somebody beat Jeffrey Dahmer to death. People can recognize a crime as a crime, even when the victim was a depraved human being, and they can condemn the crime, even when the victim was a depraved human being.
The power of words
June 3, 2009 - 01:56 ET by KC MulvilleIt's self-contradictory to call pro-lifers "jihadists," and associate them with the Taliban, Hamas, etc., because some pro-lifers call abortion "murder." If you claim that using the word "murder" so inflames others that it drives them to the distraction of reason, and thereby encourages vigilante violence ... then one wonders how the phrases jihadists and Taliban encourage any less.
Olbermann is either deliberately encouraging violence, or he's making a mockery of self-righteousness for the sake of TV ratings. Either way, he's an ass.
That was everything I
June 3, 2009 - 02:03 ET by bulletproofThat was everything I wanted to say only with much better clarity! Especially how you tied it up into that inevitable conclusion.
=)
Olbermann makes a mockery
June 3, 2009 - 06:15 ET by motherbeltOlbermann makes a mockery of self-righteousness on a regular basis.
If someone waltzes up and kills Tiller's "assassin" a la Jack Ruby, I wonder if Keith will take respnsibiliy?
Or will he claim that "justice" was done?
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
So Olberdork and the five
June 3, 2009 - 03:44 ET by gmaniac1So Olberdork and the five people watching his show want to shut down Fox News. Most people that watch his show already don't watch Fox News. You know, if NB didn't write stories about him, I wouldn't know he existed. He got kicked off of ESPN, flaunts Cornell but didn't go to the real university, has impotency probelms, and cries like a little girl every times he gets criticism.
When the people fear the government it's called tyranny, when the government fears the people it's called liberty!
Tiller kept his supposedly
June 3, 2009 - 06:10 ET by GrannyGrump42Tiller kept his supposedly deathly ill third trimester abortion patients in a motel rather than in a hospital, with their dead babies rotting inside them -- a practice that caused the death of a mentally disabled teenager.
He left a baby blind, paralyzed, and mentally retarded by injecting formaldehyde into her brain.
The question needs to be "What sort of sick creep thinks this guy's death was a loss to society?"
No, no, no!
June 3, 2009 - 06:18 ET by motherbelt"This is about the loss of a man who was a saint and a martyr," she
said in an interview. "He was a prayerful man who put his life at risk
to protect others and died for it." - "Very Reverend" Katharine Ragsdale of Episcopal Divinity School in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A saint. a martyr. Prayerful. risking his life for "others."
Got that?
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson