Exit poll after exit poll in election after election shows the Democratic Party is staunchly supported by an overwhelming majority of African-American voters, many of whom are much more socially conservative on issues like abortion than their party leadership. The Democratic Party is also staunchly supported in primary battles and in fundraising drives by hard-core pro-choice liberals -- we're talking the same people who fought tooth-and-nail the federal ban on Partial-Birth Abortion.
So when a group of black ministers conducted a protest march in Washington, D.C., last week to raise awareness of its criticism of Planned Parenthood, media outlets had the recipe, instantly, for stories about possible conflicts that could divide the Democratic Party coalition on substantive, hot-button issues.
To perhaps no one's surprise here at NewsBusters, while the media covered the much hyped "Unity" rally in New Hampshire, the cable networks failed to even show up to shoot B-roll of Thursday's pro-life march on the DNC and RNC headquarters. Washington Times staffer Julia Duin covered the march and found no TV cameras present to record it:
I noticed two discordant events during Thursday's pro-life demonstrations by black activists on Capitol Hill.
One was the lack of TV cameras. They said a Fox crew showed up early, then left on another assignment way before the demonstration began. But here you had folks wearing T-shirts with sayings on them like "black genocide" and carrying signs saying "Abortion is not a family value" and traipsing down SE Capitol Street in steamy weather between the Democratic National Committee HQ and the Republican National Committee building. There were kids, there were pastors, there was quite the cross-section. It was colorful and in your face and there were folks like Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, popping off gospel hymns every time she got near a mike. It was just the right stuff for good TV footage. Our photoographer [sic], Astrid Riecken (one of whose photos is shown with this post) had a field day shooting stuff and six photos ran in Friday's paper.
But where were all the other media outlets and the networks? CNN? The wires? It's like these folks did not exist. Here you had pastors like Arnold Culbreath with Protecting Black Life, a Cincinnatti group, claiming that Planned Parenthood disproportionally builds its clinics in majority-black and Hispanic areas.
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters
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some black ministers weren't so fond of Bill/Hillary, either..
June 30, 2008 - 12:52 ET by Gary HallAnd Ken, some black ministers weren't so fond of Bill/Hillary, either. Take for instance the Rev. Wright; his view? President Clinton screwed the black community, as he had done Monica, and Hillary would be no different:
Jeremiah Wright on Bill Clinton
Seems that the MSM did their best to keep that debate out of the Democrat Party's presidential race. Wonder why? Might hurt the Clinton legacy a bit? Raise a few soul searching questions for the Democrats? (;~/ Gary
media outlets had the
June 30, 2008 - 13:00 ET by motherbeltmedia outlets had the recipe, instantly, for stories about possible
conflicts that could divide the Democratic Party coalition on
substantive, hot-button issues.
And they ignored it!
Of course they did.
Just like they ignore the 70%-80% of black parents who want school vouchers.
Shoot 'em all; let God sort 'em out! - Marge Simpson
Pro Life
June 30, 2008 - 13:05 ET by ScrapironThe democrats are Pro Life for the terrorists only.
Killing millions of babies is of no interest to them, just don't cause any dis-comfort to a terrorists.
That is a fact they will have to live, and die, with.
Old, Retired and glad of it.
What's Left?
June 30, 2008 - 14:29 ET by JDWIllegals and terrorists? How long before abortion destroys this base?
JDW
Remember the Countrywide Six?
Who forgot to write about the advances in Iraq?
If bin Laden is presumed innocent, why not just shoot him there?
Ken, thanks for bringing our
June 30, 2008 - 13:07 ET by lotrKen, thanks for bringing our attention to this. Speaking for myself, I wouldn't have ever known about this event. Good to see folks are bringing the truth about abortion to light, but bad to see the light is held under a bushel basket by the thought-police MSM.
The MSM doesn't care about the pro-life crowd
June 30, 2008 - 14:04 ET by greenfairieThe annual March for Life draws hundreds of thousands of people EVERY YEAR yet you barely hear about it outside of the Beltway. The coverage it got in the D.C. media was sparse and in the case of the WaPo, it strangely focused on the three or four pro-choice counterprotestors who'd show up. Compare this to the obsessive coverage the MSM would put on anti-war protests that would draw at most a couple of thousand freaks.
The overwhelming majority of the MSM is pro-abortion and it's even more so now with so many hardcore careerist reporterettes and producerettes who shudder in terror that their careers will be derailed with an inconvenient baby. They loathe pro-lifers.
It doesn't fit the MSM
June 30, 2008 - 14:50 ET by mattmIt doesn't fit the MSM definition of what a 'Black' is supposed to be. It's a subtle form of liberal racism and bigotry.
Remember, it was the LA Times who called BHO "the magic negro," saying he wasn't black enough because he didn't go through the same oppression as the descendants of slaves in this country did.
If Alan Keyes was the GOP nominee and Condi was his veep, the Left would launch such a massive assault on them that it would make the Clarence Thomas lynching attempt look like a picnic.
abortion
June 30, 2008 - 15:26 ET by cocodrieThe media is not interested in christian ministers. They are waiting to show up when rev, Wright from the "Church of the Divine Racists" has a march.
Black Camel
June 30, 2008 - 18:44 ET by kilrodHo Ho: Maybe this is the nose of the camel in the tent, and the camel is black!! And maybe the blacks and browns are finally being enlightend that the dimocrats planned parenthood guru margeret sanger was a nazi-type racist who intended abortion mainly to control the population of the blacks, browns, and jews and asians. It would be ironic if the blacks were able to do what the gutless republicans were to cowardly to do, overturn roe v wade. I would love it if the minorities deserted the Pro-Death dimocrats, and realize the dims just use them as a pawn in the game.
kilrod
Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier
Until something happens
June 30, 2008 - 19:35 ET by liberal_bug_zapperUntil something happens and Blacks find out that the left cares nothing for them... and only wants their votes, and does not care that women are endangering themselves by having more than one abortion, not to mention all the innocent lives snuffed out.... the Black voting block will continue to vote Democrat.
It's too bad, that in this day in age, that only this and a few rag-tag sites even make mention of these marches.... so the vast majority of Americans don't know these things happen.
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"A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom." ~ Milton Friedman
It would be interesting to
June 30, 2008 - 22:40 ET by msh1973It would be interesting to know if these Ministers are for Obama knowing that he is pro-abortion and all. Just a thought...
I am shocked that the msm
June 30, 2008 - 22:36 ET by msh1973I am shocked that the msm didn't cover this protest!
Thank-You Mr. Shepherd
June 30, 2008 - 22:43 ET by kilrodThank-You Mr. Shepherd:
Thank-You for this article, it lets us know that all the black people are not sold out to the dimocrats. It points up further bias from the left-wing msm. It illustrates how cold blooded and cold hearted those people are. Maybe, at some point, before it's to late, the professed Christians of this nation, and the so called Pro-Life republican party will realize that "abortion" is the #1 most important issue this country has and do something other than paying it "lip service". Maybe not, i don't see much comment on this site about this article. Could it be that folks think all these other issues are more important than the life and death of a human being?
kilrod
Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier