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The debate over PRENDA — the Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act — may be done, but the push against Planned Parenthood affiliates by Live Action activists continue on. The anti-choice actions group lead by James O’Keefe protege Lila Rose has shown once more that they have learned all of her mentor’s tricks, as a new and heavily-edited video shows an entirely different conversation than the one that full footage proves took place.
Live Action’s new New York video, part two in their series that is supposed to prove that Planned Parenthood “promotes” sex selection abortion, snips a 30-minute encounter into a tidy 7-minute package that allegedly shows a practitioner willingly helping a woman arrange for a future abortion of a likely female fetus.
But what was left on the cutting room floor, according to Media Matters, is the counselor raising the possibility of adoption, questioning whether she’s certain she wants to terminate, and the question of whether they would provide a “friendly” Obstetrician to help her out.
Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL): Women Who Undergo Abortions Should Face Criminal Charges
MATTHEWS: So it should be a criminal matter for the woman as well as the doctor?
STEARNS: I think so. You are killing an embryo and in some cases you are killing an embryo that is four or five months into gestation.
Video of the Day: An Illinois Lawmaker’s Epic Freak-Out
Speaking in the Illinois State House Tuesday, Mike Bost lost his marbles during a discussion of pension reform. Like Beale, the longtime Republican representative from a southern Illinois district was mad as hell and he wasn’t going to take it any more, unleashing an epic rant at Speaker Mike Madigan.
The top moments are undoubtedly early in the clip, when he tosses a bunch of papers in the air, then punches them on the way down; and when he shouts, “Let my people go!” But stay with it until the end for his excellent variation on the old rap-battle mic drop. Also worth noting: the faces on his colleagues around him, trying to maintain a sense of dignity, except the woman in the burgundy behind him who seems willing to indulge her amusement.
Did he throw his papers in the air and try to punch them?
In which Wolf Blitzer, of all people, schools Donald Trump on the air over his position on birtherism. An excerpt:
WB: Donald, you’re beginning to sound a little ridiculous, I have to tell you.
DT: You are, Wolf. Let me tell you something, I think you sound ridiculous, and if you’d ask me a question and let me answer it.
WB: Here’s the question, did the conspiracy start in 1961 where theHonolulu Star-Bulletin and the Advertiser contemporaneously published announcements that he was born in Hawaii?
DT: Many people put those announcements in because they wanted to get the benefit because of getting so-called born in this country. Many people did it. It was something done by many people even though they weren’t born in the country. You know and I know it.
Trump hosts a fundraiser for Mitt Romney tonight in Las Vegas.
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Two Republican Nominees (by BarackObamadotcom)
“There are a lot of ugly forces being unleashed in our societies on both sides of the Atlantic because our economic policy has been such a dismal failure, because we are refusing to listen to the lessons of history. We may look back at this thirty years from now and say, ‘That is when it all fell apart.’ And by all, I don’t just mean the economy.”
(via Krugman: This may be when it all falls apart | The Raw Story)
Part two of the Interview:
COOPER: Well, the North Carolina pastor who preached that gays and lesbians should be rounded up and put behind electric fences to die was back on the pulpit this weekend.
A local newspaper says that Pastor Charles Worley got a standing ovation at Providence Road Baptist Church. Meanwhile, hundreds of people gathered to protest the pastor’s message outside.
Gary Tuchman went to North Carolina to try to ask him if he stands by his words. We’ll have that in a moment. But first, just a reminder of how this all happened with that sermon on May 13. Pastor Worley railed against President Obama’s support for same- sex marriage and then talked about how he would eliminate gays and lesbians.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REV. CHARLES WORLEY, PASTOR: I figured a way out — a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers. But I couldn’t get it past the Congress. Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 mile long. Put all the lesbians in there. Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals. And have that fence electrified so they can’t get out. Feed them. And you know what? In a few years they’ll die out. Do you know why? They can’t reproduce.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Well, since that sermon gained nationwide attention, the pastor has refused to talk to reporters. He’s not returned our calls, so Gary Tuchman went to ask him in person.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): We haven’t seen or heard from Pastor Charles Worley since his anti-gay sermon went viral. Until now.
(on camera) Pastor would you like to take back anything you said? Pastor, we want to give you a chance to take anything back, if you care to.
(voice-over) Pastor Worley had plenty of opportunity to answer either question. He chose not to. Instead he was on his way to his church for a Sunday service on the same day that hundreds of people from North Carolina and other parts of the country protested the pastor’s now infamous sermon.
WORLEY: Build a great, big, large fence 150 or 100-mile long. Put all the lesbians in there. Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I felt that he was preaching bigotry. My God is a loving God. My God loves everybody.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is not a preacher. This is a bigot.
TUCHMAN: The protesters demonstrated several miles away from the church.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And to that which is against nature is against very nature.
TUCHMAN: … where they encountered a small but loud opposition.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can’t be a practicing lesbian and sodomite and be saved by the grace of God.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We must repent, friend, because we’ve broken God’s laws.
TUCHMAN: Pastor Worley’s supporters carried signs that many here felt were nasty and antagonistic, as well as not necessarily accurate.
(on camera) Let me ask you: where does it talk about AIDS in Romans 1:27.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It doesn’t.
TUCHMAN: Why do you have that here?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, it’s just a phrase that we put on there.
TUCHMAN: There’s been all kinds of opportunity for confrontation here. People on one side of the issue are marching on the sidewalk; people on the other side of the issue are yelling back at them. But so far there’s been no problems.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I’m glad I’m a proud member of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina. My pastor, and his brother.
TUCHMAN (voice-over): For the most part Worley’s supporters were ignored and instead the focus was on the pastor’s anti-gay sermon.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think it’s absolutely anti-Christian. Which is why I wrote this message, “Would Jesus really do this?” No.
TUCHMAN: And many protesters brought their children.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just want my teach my kids to love everyone. I don’t want them to see black or white, gay or straight. I want them to show up and love everybody.
TUCHMAN: Nobody was arrested.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But I’m telling you the reason that heterosexuals go to heaven is because they repent for their sins.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I need your identification.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, sir.
TUCHMAN: But this pro-Worley supporter got a citation for using a bull horn, which had been banned.
Meanwhile, at church a few miles away, we asked one of the church board members if Worley would talk to us there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We’re not issuing any comments or statements.
TUCHMAN (on camera): Can I can’t talk to the pastor?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, sir.
TUCHMAN (voice-over): There would be no talking to Charles Worley, at least on this day.
(on camera) Pastor, any comment at all?
(voice-over) The pastor is either not ready or not interested to publicly defend his sermon. But as far as defending him, his family and supporters seem ready to step up. Five men walked out the door of his house when we asked the pastor questions. Notably, one of the men appeared to have a gun in his waistband.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COOPER: Gary Tuchman joins us now live from North Carolina. What did you learn about — about what went on inside Pastor Worley’s church service yesterday, Gary?
TUCHMAN: Well, I should tell you first, Anderson, we wanted to go into the church, but we were told that no reporters were allowed on the grounds of the church. And people know who I am.
But there was a reporter who wasn’t as well known, a local reporter with the newspaper “The Hickory Daily Record.” And they were saying in the beginning that — he told us that the pastor got a standing ovation.
In addition to that, the pastor told the congregants — hundreds of people were inside — that he appreciates their support. And he also added, “I’ve been preaching for 53 years.” And, quote, “Do you think I’m going to bail out on this now?”
COOPER: It’s interesting, though. For someone who, you know, says he’s not bailing out, he still refuses to answer any questions to anybody.
TUCHMAN: Yes. And I don’t think he’s interested at all in talking to outsiders. Particularly the news media.
I have been told, though, by that director who I talked with, that they are consulting with their lawyers right now. So ultimately, perhaps their lawyers will advise the pastor to talk. But as of now, it’s clear. You saw, Anderson, I gave him every opportunity to make a statement. He decided not to.
COOPER: Of course, our invitation is open for him to come on this program any time. Gary, appreciate the reporting. Thank you.
(via Pastor’s Hateful Sermon on Gays and Lesbians Draws Protests in North Carolina | Video Cafe)
An old activist buddy of mine put this together. He is a southern lawyer -who loves to debate - I met via Michael Moore’s old forum. During the build up to the Iraq war, he and I and a few other folks we gathered in a Yahoo Group to try and develop arguments we could use to try and move right wingers to acknowledge some progressive points. We used Hannity’s forum to test our theories. When we found arguments that worked, we would take them to comments sections of newspaper articles on the relevant topics. He wrote “Defeat the Right in Three Minutes” as we learned from our experiences - which was way before the 2006 date on that site.
We spent a LOT of time pushing the media to cover the neocons Project for a New American Century - going so far as drafting a set of ‘interrrogatories’ to the White House and then to every member of the White House press corps urging them to ask the questions.
We spent about 3 months posting the questions to journalists all over the country and then posting the questions individually in letters to the editor and in comments all over the place. We were floored the first time a call in to the Washington Journal asked one of the hosts why they were not asking ‘our questions’ to members of the Bush Administration.
Our little group fell apart so, I was delighted to discover that Joe is still at it with his movie and still posting at Daily Kos as Conceptual Guerilla, the originator of the “corporate feudalism” and ‘cheap labor conservatives’ memes I still run into from time to time.
If you run into Joe at Netroots Nation or somewhere else, give him a hug for me - one of his old Green Dems buddies. And you can watch the entire video/movie through his site teapartycult for a small donation.
Mexico City is trialling an innovative way of giving free Wi-Fi to conscientious dog walkers, by exchanging it for their pet’s “mess”.
That’s right, dog poo for Wi-Fi. Walkers are encouraged to place bags filled with dog turds into designated boxes, which will weigh the deposit before calculating how many free Wi-Fi minutes your “gift” warrants. (via Free Wi-Fi? Then give us your dog poo - Pocket-lint)
Rachel Maddow talks to Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker about the controversy surrounding his comments on Sunday’s Meet the Press where he called the Obama campaign’s attacks on Bain Capital ‘nauseating’ and the GOP’s response stating, “Here they are plucking soundbites out of that interview to manipulate them in a cynical manner, to use them for their own purposes… I’m very upset that I’m being used by the GOP this way.”
SCOTT WALKER PLAYING TRICKS WITH THE JOB NUMBERS - Prosecutors (by BarrettForWisconsin)
She’s Back! Stephanie Cutter: Get the facts on Karl Rove’s BS
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Stephanie Cutter shares the facts against the latest ad put out by Karl Rove and his Super PAC: Crossroads.
