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Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : When The House is on Fire

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:45:53 +0000

Second, the belief that your drip campaign of theatrical releases is exposing Planned Parenthood as "burning away" is nothing but narcissism. Or wishful thinking. Poking beyond the general media silence on the topic, you'll find there are as many thoughtful stories out there right now about why this LiveAction campaign has failed as there stories asking the questions you'd like them to ask.

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : When The House is on Fire

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:45:42 +0000

First, feminism is broader than one NGO, an acknowledgement you make at the end of your essay. So why create a straw-man that it's an "allegorical home" to it? And it's ham-handed rhetoric to think liberals would "house" their beliefs somewhere. I assume the rhetoric is designed to convince liberals who do think this (good luck finding them) that it is time to cut & run. Yet the essay is so insulting, any persuasion it could hope for lands with a thud.

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : When The House is on Fire

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:27:32 +0000

This sophomoric writing exercise is rife with problematic ideas. The burning building metaphor is both dangerous (despite your claims) and hopelessly strained. I'm running into a burning building to save my stuff? And my stuff is ... amorphous left-wing ideologies? I don't get it, but I'll try to unwind it.

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : DC Planned Parenthood Staffer Counsels Sex-Trafficker How Underage Girls Can Get Abortions And Testi

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:54:33 +0000

I hate to get into semantics, but you have too narrow a view of what "partisan" means. I don't mean adhering to a Party. I mean adhering to a cause. You don't think the authorities will take your very partisan viewpoint into account when reviewing "evidence"? And what do they prosecute? A fake crime that was part of a sophomoric drama? Has LiveAction done the hard, real-world work to find real cases of abuse? Or is the thrill of theatre too beguiling to do that dirty (and time-consuming, and detail-oriented) work.

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : Planned Parenthood's False Doctoring Claim Exposed

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:47:09 +0000

The Christian Science Monitor has reported that "prosecution would be hard" ... http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0207/Do... ... and there's one thing AG's don't like -- cases that aren't imminently winnable. So, in the end, Planned Parenthood will likely look back and thank you for tightening up some of their training, finding some of the un-disciplined, low-hanging fruit in their organization, and calling it a day. Somehow I think the people that you're feeding all this red meat to will not be satisfied.

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : Lila Rose Letter To US AG Eric Holder

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:06:00 +0000

I doubt it. What professional would take action on this thin evidence, obtained in such a stagy manner? Especially after kindred-spirit Mr. O'Keefe's misadventures that landed him in prison and humiliated by CNN?

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : Caught on Tape: Planned Parenthood Aids Pimp’s Underage Sex Ring

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:33:47 +0000

"The forces of righteousness have once again unleashed their most feared weapon: fake pimps and hos. This time the victim was Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey, which was revealed, on tape, to provide abortions! To prostitutes! And teens!" Lol.

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : Planned Parenthood's False Doctoring Claim Exposed

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:43:49 +0000

You're drilling down pretty far to try to prove that mp3s and mpegs obtained by a biased party are, in fact, evidence. They are not. Especially when obtained under false pretenses.

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : DC Planned Parenthood Staffer Counsels Sex-Trafficker How Underage Girls Can Get Abortions And Testi

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:27:27 +0000

Thankfully you're not the arbitor of that. You're not a law enforcement group. Your videos are not evidence. Get over the idea that something that gets posted on a partisan website should, by necessity, trigger arrests, prosecutions, or punitive measures.

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : Lila Rose Letter To US AG Eric Holder

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:49:38 +0000

Because Planned Parenthood reported an incident to the Indiana authorities, but LiveAction had not staged an event there, Ms. Rose leaps to the immediate conclusion that it represents malfeasance in Indiana branch. That is either (1) deeply flawed logic, (2) a troubling narcissism that suggests only her staged events are what should be under discussion (no real events need apply!), or (3) she has some kind of super-human omnipresence and knows what happened in Indiana. In either case, it's a poorly crafted legal argument to be sending off to the top law enforcement officer in the land.

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : Caught on Tape: Planned Parenthood Aids Pimp’s Underage Sex Ring

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:23:22 +0000

Well, yes, law enforcement officials usually take law breaking seriously. Of course, they have to prioritize, but I would think sex trafficking would leap up the prioritization ladder. Thing is, nothing illegal happened here. Unless you count bad acting. But I don't think that's illegal.

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : Bronx, NY Planned Parenthood Staffer Tells "Pimp" He Can Pose As Guardian To Get Tax Payer Funded Se

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:13:30 +0000

Mandatory reporting standards? Sound like you just made that up. You can't just make stuff up. Oh wait a minute, I guess you can. Live Action is living proof of it. Get it? Huh? "Living" Proof? lol.

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : Bronx, NY Planned Parenthood Staffer Tells "Pimp" He Can Pose As Guardian To Get Tax Payer Funded Se

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:08:31 +0000

"If a multistate sex trafficking operation is in place, those responsible must be pursued to stop the exploitation of girls and young women," said Schear. "If these visits are part of a 'dirty tricks' campaign, they must be condemned. Falsely claiming sex trafficking to health professionals to advance a political agenda is an astoundingly cynical form of political activity."

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : Bronx, NY Planned Parenthood Staffer Tells "Pimp" He Can Pose As Guardian To Get Tax Payer Funded Se

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:07:28 +0000

I'll take you right to the horse's mouth - http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroo...

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : Bronx, NY Planned Parenthood Staffer Tells "Pimp" He Can Pose As Guardian To Get Tax Payer Funded Se

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:05:09 +0000

You should be happy anyone is covering it, because so far, it's largely been ignored. That was the crux of this Slate piece, "It's Hard Out There for a Pimp: Why the latest conservative hidden-video trick to embarrass liberals has fizzled." http://www.slate.com/id/2284227/

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : DC Planned Parenthood Staffer Counsels Sex-Trafficker How Underage Girls Can Get Abortions And Testi

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:57:22 +0000

You mean the fake, hypothetical sex worker was allowed to go back to her hypothetical home and hypothetical abuse? I suggest if Live Action wants to be taken seriously (who takes James O'Keefe seriously now?), they should do the work to look into the data. Into the real lives of people they feel are being abused. This theatrical song and dance is indicative of what Lila Rose and her young cohorts are capable of. No real research, no real work in the field, just dog and pony show.

Live Action Blog - Human Rights, Abortion, and Life : Bronx, NY Planned Parenthood Staffer Tells "Pimp" He Can Pose As Guardian To Get Tax Payer Funded Se

Tue, 8 Feb 2011 23:24:56 +0000

Many news outlets have done a pretty good job of de-bunking the claims made in these videos. For instance, it's already widely known that Planned Parenthood has reported these "sting" operations to the FBI. While I'm sure the idea of pimps and hos getting insurance breaks haunts your fever dreams, what's plausibly going on is information gathering. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102080017