Hispanic Pro-lifer Assaulted in Fresno, California; Local Media Punt

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[Update, 12:30 am Eastern Saturday: Josh Brahm of the RLCC, mentioned below, contacted me and sent me the link to an edited video taken of the assault, which is imbedded at right (obscene language warning). -MB.]

Steven Ertelt of LifeNews.com reported on Friday that a pro-life activist was assaulted on October 15 by a supporter of abortion in front of the Planned Parenthood in Fresno, California, during a vigil for the nationwide 40 Days for Life campaign. Ertelt also noted that local TV news outlets ignored the story of the assault in their evening broadcasts, brushing it aside either because the victim’s injury wasn’t serious enough, or because they thought a story on “chocolate-covered bacon” was more important.

Victor Fierro, director of Latinos4Life, a pro-life organization, was physically attacked by a “pro-choice woman,” according to the press release by Right to Life of Central California (RLCC), which was also cited in the LifeNews.com report. The woman “shouted obscenities” at the pro-life demonstrators participating in the 40 Days for Life vigil in front of the Planned Parenthood facility, “before attempting to break the event security camera and assaulting...Fierro....The attacker cut Fierro’s arm with an unknown object, drawing blood, and then stormed back to her car and fled the scene.” The entire incident was captured by the video camera, though most of the assault occurred outside of its field of vision. However, the camera did capture her face and her car’s tag number.

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The press release from RLCC also took the Fresno-area media to task for failing to cover the story:

“Local media ignored the story of yesterday’s assault on their evening news casts. KMPH Fox 26 told Josh Brahm [RLCC’s education director] that they weren’t going to cover the story since Victor ‘wasn’t stabbed, just scratched.’ KFSN ABC 30 shot footage at Planned Parenthood and interviewed both Josh Brahm and Victor Fierro, but didn’t use the story, replacing it with a piece on the new ‘chocolate-covered bacon’ stand at the local fair, and a man who believes he sees the virgin Mary on a rock.”

File photo of March for Life, courtesy of Fox NewsThis decision by these media outlets isn’t surprising, since assaults on pro-lifers, such as the September 11, 2009 murder of James Pouillon, who was gunned down as he held a graphic picture of an aborted baby; or the December 22, 2007 assault on Ed Snell, who was thrown off the roof of his car while trying to convince his attacker’s girlfriend not to abort; do not receive half the coverage that violence against abortion performers receive.

I personally have participated in the 40 Days for Life campaign in front of the 16th Street Planned Parenthood in Washington, DC, which is located within sight of the White House, where our current pro-abortion president resides. All I have been “guilty” of doing on those multiple occasions is praying just steps outside the entrance to a building where babies are slaughtered within their mothers’ wombs. One of the goals of the campaign is to keep a constant 24-hours-a-day vigil outside the Planned Parenthood, and I contributed to this by often taking late night time slots, many times by myself. The last I checked, the freedom to peacefully assemble and to freely exercise my religion are protected rights in this country. No one should face that kind of attack just because their viewpoint is politically incorrect these days.

—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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I'm Sorry

I'm Sorry but this story does not fit the narrative.

Just another violent

    • Just another violent intolerant liberal.

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Interesting that one of the

Interesting that one of the more conservative regions of California chose not to run this story when their viewers are those most interested in the story.

PS: There's chocolate covered bacon now??? 

ILTK, go back to Taxachusetts...

Fresno, while indeed in the conservative central California, has been moving to the left for the last decade or so.  An influx of liberal and moderate-liberals who can no longer afford the high costs of living in the Bay Area has moved the meter to the left.  

Same thing happening in Bakersfield, only with LA refugees.  

Both still remain mostly in the conservative camp, however.

The fact that the television stations chose not to cover this is no surprise.  But they could not ignore the thousands upon thousands who swarmed both downtowns for the April 15 tea parties.

BTW, we don't want your idiotic input on the damn Delta Smelt, either.   

Angry much?  xoxo - Ted

Angry much? 

xoxo - Ted

Just tired of outsiders

Just tired of outsiders trying to tell us how to live.  We love our God and guns here, thank you very much.  And we are quite capable of managing our resources without any help from the federal government or environmental wackos.  

This Pro-Life protester should have pulled out his Smith & Wesson 9 mm and shot the woman.  Self defense, problem solved. 

And if he needs to borrow mine, he is welcome to it. 

You see the irony in your

You see the irony in your statement, right?   

This Pro-Life protester should have pulled out his Smith & Wesson 9 mm and shot the woman. 

Ah, a pro-lifer taking another's life.  I also find it ironic that you don't like others telling you how to live, yet it's okay for the pro-lifer to tell others how to live.  Ah, well. 

xoxo - Ted

→ Drupal

And the Pro Abortioner should have pulled out, period. ;-)

Give me immortality, or give me death - firesign

You never disappoint me,

You never disappoint me, Tex.  Hope you had a nice weekend. 

xoxo - Ted

Seems the local

 Interesting that one of the more conservative regions

 media is working hard to correct that. I doubt that bacon last long either

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Amen, gc

I stopped watching anything except local high school sports highlights on any local stations.  Still trying to indoctrinate us.  Shows what happens when local stations go outside the area to find on-air "talent."  Not all of them, mind you.  Just a few.  But a few bad apples spoil the bushel.

Leftist corruption is everywhere

Know how to keep a Troll in suspense?  Ill tell ya in the morning.

So

Not suprised, seems killing babies is pretty importaint to the media and liberals. 

Were they for the bacon or not? 

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Okay... "baby-killer"

Okay...

"baby-killer" card played.  Now, how about a "Hate America" card from the bottom of the deck.

Jer

What should I call it Jer

My pc deck is all worn out?

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Call it what it was...

An outrageous assault by a pro-choice [or pro-abortion if you prefer] jerk.

Jer

So next time I say you threated me

Remember calling me a jerk. Because if you were here, I would be flattening your nose right now,,tough guy.

By the way, what are pro-abortion folks in favor of? Killing babies? or have I missed something. Maybe instead of you liberals trying to teach our 5 yr old how to use a condom, maybe you should teach the pro-abortion crowd how too.

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Stop your juvenile threats,

Stop your juvenile threats, g c.  I didn't call you a jerk.  I called the pro-abortion assailant a jerk.  Geez.

Jer

I am sorry Jer

 I am only to happy to apologize. I didnt see it as a continuation of the sentence. 

  My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Thanks general

Thanks general company...

In rereading my post, it was a little confusing.

Jer

Call them what they are

Call the "pro-choice" what they are, Jer, supporters of infanticide.

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

worn out?? Only to those who are baby killers

Know how to keep a Troll in suspense?  Ill tell ya in the morning.

Exactly. Jer, and others

Exactly. Jer, and others like him, cannot stand to face the horrific results of their positions -- even in text -- so they will do everything that they can to distance themselves from it. This necessarily involves choosing words to describe their position. If you call it "pro-abortion" or "pro-choice" then it's like those mangled babies never even existed!

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Tenebrous.... Understood.

Tenebrous....

Understood.  I'll certainly look forward to your and Dan's admonishment of Mr. Balan for using or repeating virtually the same terms I used while failing to employ the more appropriate "baby killler".  Please PM me when you post the admonishment.  I don't want to miss it.

Jer

→ Welcome back, Jer

Obviously one of your conservative friends worked on your computer.

Otherwise, it would have a NB filter installed. 

Give me immortality, or give me death - firesign

Funny, Cool...

Nope he's a left-wing radical.  And what do you think I had him over for?  Unfortunately, NB is just too d*mn powerful to be blocked.

Actually, he came. he saw, and conquered nothing.  I'll be at Best Buys tomorrow buying a new router.

Jer

Bias and hypocrisy runs

Bias and hypocrisy runs deep with this story.

If this were reversed...it would be all over the place...with description of person, tag numbers and all info they could have dug up by the time the show aired.

'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart

Yep, and dont forget

The hate, there would be plenty of associated hate

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

STOP KILLING YOUR BABIES AMERICA!!! ...

...  NO excuse will be acceptable on Judgment Day.

I'm sorry, but this post is

I'm sorry, but this post is an example of why I stopped coming here for a while.  

I am very pro life, but to make a threat about Judgment day...

 

The Fresno Media

OK, I consider myself an expert on very few things, but since I live in the Fresno area, I consider myself an expert on Fresno media. The local TV news in Fresno (metro population over half a million) is the lamest, most amateurish idiotic waste of time in the history of broadcasting. These clowns wouldn't know a story if it bit them on the...... whatever. Reporters are routinely hired for their ethnicity, not their talent, and the result is a newscast that America's Funniest Home Videos could run without editing. They don't think a pro-life protester being attacked is a news story? I can understand that. They haven't a clue what a news story is. They think a news story is sending their "mobile news van" to the scene of the latest gang shooting - five hours after the police have left. It's almost as funny as PMSNBC.

violence

Ending a babies' life is extreme violence.  Violence on adults in the form of acting intolerant is therefore not a big deal for the pro deathers.

So the guy who was attacked

Is latino, and the organization he represents is latino.

But I thought liberals COULDN'T be racists. That's what we are constantly told by our own resident liberals. 

"If the man, with the power, can't keep it under control...some heads are gonna roll." -Judas Priest