When Republican strategist Michelle Laxalt began to describe the clinical reality of partial-birth abortion on MSNBC this morning at about 10:55 AM EDT, MSNBC host Chris Jansing cut her off, saying she didn't want to get into an "emotional debate." Of course not. Better to focus on the antiseptic "right to choose" without letting the gruesome reality of the matter intrude.
In partial birth abortion, the doctor collapses the near-term baby's skull and its brains are then sucked out. Immediately after stopping Laxalt just as she was about to state that, Jansing herself said that the GOP might welcome the debate on the partial birth abortion issue "after Iraq and some of the other things that have gone on at the White House that have sort of sucked the life out of the Republican party."
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Could Jansing possibly have been in much worse taste?
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Wow. That is both horrifying
April 20, 2007 - 10:33 ET by rubylensWow. That is both horrifying and incredibly amusing at the same time. I can't believe she said that.
Talk about an insensitive com
April 20, 2007 - 10:54 ET by msh1973Talk about an insensitive comment...let's call for her firing!
Can't do that. She didn't cal
April 20, 2007 - 10:58 ET by rubylensCan't do that. She didn't call anybody a "ho," after all. That would have been awful! She just very reasonably wants to be able to kill as many babies as possible without the outrageous inconvenience of anyone "emotionalizing" the issue by explaining how the procedure involves crushing viable babies' skulls and sucking their brains out. She's an enlightened and very nice person, I'm sure. She would never call anybody a "ho."
com
April 20, 2007 - 11:05 ET by Paul DetrickI don't understand the news writers at television stations. It's like they majored in Communications or something.
Apparantly the only require
April 20, 2007 - 11:12 ET by MightyMouthApparantly the only requirement to be a "host" on MSNBC, is to have a head full of air.
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
It's like she tried to stop i
April 20, 2007 - 11:15 ET by muh-oonIt's like she tried to stop it from being said and then the words came from her own mouth.
Oh Mark, I saw this while I
April 20, 2007 - 11:27 ET by bigtimerOh Mark,
I saw this while I was doing work this morning, I immediately grabbed a paper and pencil and wrote down the names of the guests and of course Jansing, (whom I have always detested) this was just delicious with the irony of it all.
She would not dare let Laxalt finish with the descriptive procedure of late term abortion...nooooo, she couldn't have that, she immediately interrupted her for that very reason and she turns around as uses the very phrase the Laxalt didn't quite get to finish with....
Priceless...
Jansing really made a fool of herself and stuck a big foot right in that leftist mouth of hers.
Thank you for having this on here, I was going to hope to find links and put it in Open Thread if it hadn't been mentioned.
Mark, never underestimate how low the left is willing to go
April 20, 2007 - 11:40 ET by RJMark, never underestimate how disgustingly low the left is willing to go.
My state paper, The Courant, ran an editorial cartoon today in four panels.
Panel 1) "Intact Dilation & Extraction Explained."
Panel 2) "The doctor inserts a straw into the Supreme Court Justice's ear"
Panel 3) "The brain is sucked out"
Panel 4) "Thus, leaving the court conservative"
For the actual drawings, go to:
http://blogs.courant.com/bob_englehart/2007/04/post_1.html#comments
How's that for low and disgusting, Mark? Making a "joke" out of a procedure that is akin to Mayan Priests ripping the beating hearts from their terrified victims. The enfants are probably conscious and terrified. That they have no experience with which to understand their terror makes it no less horrible.
First off , upfront I am a
April 20, 2007 - 12:08 ET by Right2thePointFirst off , upfront I am a guy and by just the sheer unbreakable laws of the universe I don't understand women. But when I see mothers and how they react to the newborns I can't think of how one of these creatures can consent to such a procedure. To have it done would seem to require the most confirmed health risk to the birth mother. If you didn't want it to begin with then you should have dealt with it in whichever way of your choosing months earlier not at the end of term of the pregnancy. That is just plain cruel and inhuman on any scale.
cuel
April 20, 2007 - 12:22 ET by iveseenitall"Cruel and inhuman"--not to the oh-so-sensitve liberal hypocrites. Over thirty years of this s@#t in America and people are finally waking up to what we've wrought. For my generation, these are our children who think this way. Plenty of blame for it to go around: liberalism on the left, failure to condemn it on the right. Sad.
NEVER,NEVER trrust a liberal
To intentionally remove the
April 20, 2007 - 12:15 ET by Right2thePointTo intentionally remove the life from a near end term fetus and at the same time have a medical system which costs insurance companies hundreds of thousands of dollars for the extra care required by premie births is an exercise in insanity.
Jansing's discussion-cutting
April 20, 2007 - 12:18 ET by GalvanicJansing's discussion-cutting response is the standard when the subject of partial-birth abortion comes up. No one is allowed to describe it, lest the uninformed get unduly alarmed. Remember back in the '90s when the Congressional hearings were held on partial-birth abortion, and the pro-life legislators were prohibited from using diagrams of the procedure?
Gore's "Debate on global warming is over" mantra is similar.
Don't let the people get confused with facts.
90% of Liberalism is based on
April 20, 2007 - 12:22 ET by mattm90% of Liberalism is based on emotionalism, 10% is based on inaccurate information. So, don't give me that "I don't want to get into an emotional debate" bull! Besides, Libs don't want debate on anything at all.
Exactly right! this is the on
April 20, 2007 - 13:11 ET by MivvisExactly right! this is the only issue I can think of that the libs get all logical over.
Jansing - no debate on abortion?
April 20, 2007 - 16:51 ET by Gary HallJansing - no debate on abortion?
This is really amusing. The logo right there on the screen says, "Decision 2008 - Abortion Debate."
Just after Jansing says.." didn't want to get into an "emotional debate," as Mark noted, she continues her rude "emotional" interruption of her guest by saying, not once, but twice, "I don't want to get into a debate here about abortion." Really?