I'm writing to you today to say that, while I wouldn't ever consider paying to read your "Fair and Factual" spinmeiser lie rag, I do periodically visit to check on what the Radical Right is saying to each other from their perch that is so far out of the Kansas mainstream I wonder if you're all based some where offshore.
Today, when I made my weekly clothespin-on-nose visit, I found starting back at me one of the singularly most offensive graphics I've seen in the weeks since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller on an article about Dr. LeRoy Carhart's hopes to continue providing services to women in Wichita.
The graphic looks like this:
Now, I realize you're owned by State Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook, who, if left her own devices, would have me airdropped into North Korea with "Kim Jong Il wears women's sunglasses" tattooed across my forehead, but leadership by a loony doesn't give you carte blanc to publish horribly, horribly tasteless images of a man recently killed by a radical Christofacist with the words "LeRoy Carhart: Hoping for the good old days!" splashed across the image.I understand you're trying to make some kind of ham-handed point about late-term abortion and the glee I'm sure you think Dr. Tiller took and Dr. Carhart takes in being "abortionists." But in your attempt to being witty or humorous or whatever the hell else you thought you were doing, you were simply inappropriate and crass. While LeRoy Carhart might not be "hoping" I'm sure he is "wishing" for the good old days. Why? Because I'm sure he wishes his friend was still alive, you tone-deaf shills.
The Radical Right in this country is defined by one thing and one thing only- a total and complete lack of respect and regard for anyone with whom they disagree. They hated Dr. Tiller, they hate Dr. Carhart, and, in that blind hatred, will produce crap like this that I'm sure made them awfully proud of themselves. If they'd only find some of the compassion they have for fetuses for people who are already in this world we'd all be better off.
LeRoy Carhart: Hoping for the Good Old Days! Of course he is. Of course he is.
Do the right thing, Kansas Liberty and Senator Pilcher-Cook. Do the grieving members of Dr. Tiller's family and his friends the favor of taking this offensive attempt at political commentary off your site and apologize publicly for your ridiculous gall.
Thank you,
Jason Croucher
Editior-in-Chief
KansasJackass.com
Editior-in-Chief
KansasJackass.com
8 comments:
Disgusting. No other words.
My god...how could anyone use a graphic like that two weeks after one of the people in the photo was murdered?
Good ole John Galt will drop by shortly to tell us how this is really just the left over-reaching for outrage.
What the fuck are these asshats thinking?
The use of blunt political instruments with which to agitate their constituents is a leadership technique, albeit hypocritical and manipulative.
By associating Dr. Carhart and others in the photograph as having a good time (and financial wealth, during hard times) the demagogues in the "pro-life" movement hope to find another deranged bum looking for a long stretch of what is commonly referred to as "three hots and a cot"; as shooting suspect Scott Roeder became during his last days on the street.
If anything Sen. Cook is indirectly telling her constituents who to shoot next, and cultivating the necessary hate to ignite another to do it.
Sen. Cook, like future Gov. Brownback only go outside clinics to prey (sp?) with the Christian warriors and "baby rescuers" usually around campaign time, just before the elections and always preceding some wave of vandalism, threats or harassment their true followers unleash upon the clinic owner, staff or women and men who go to the clinics.
Conservatives know how to manipulate the poor; with religion, bribery or other devices and desires. Or as another rich conservative cynic once said, "I can bribe one half of the poor to kill off the other half."
Even easier if a doctor seems wealthy.
Michael Caddell said...
"Sen. Cook, like future Gov. Brownback only go outside clinics to prey (sp?) with the christian warriors and "baby rescuers" usually around campaign time..."
You used the correct spelling of the word.
So the picture hit a nerve?
They should have super-imposed decaying babies in the background, and under their feet.
The death of the aborted is as much a reality as Tiller's.
Both are tragic, neither should happend.
Open your other eye.
Oh, please. You anti-choice terrorists really should stop using incorrect words like "babies" when you're talking about abortion. It just makes you look like the crazy zealots that you are.
The picture was disgusting and, of course, evidence Kansas Liberty is many things, but "Fair and Factual" simply aren't on the list.
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