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Ignoring Kermit Gosnell Infanticide Factory, MSNBC Investigates If GOP Voters Too Culturally Pro-Life
As examples of self-parody go, you can’t do much better than this. As the story of Philadelphia “house of horrors” abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell explodes on the internet and makes its way gradually onto the radars of the nation’s newsroom editors, questions have arisen about why this sensational story never received the wall-to-wall treatment it appears to merit. From conservatives and liberals alike, the universal horror that the Gosnell story has inspired is palpable. But some have suggested that the story is politically inconvenient for absolutist pro-choice activists. It simply does not fit the narrative, some say, which the media has come accustomed to reporting. A rather textbook example of this narrative stewarding came today via MSNBC. The network has not yet reported on Gosnell’s infanticide factory, but they took some time out of their busy programming day today to ask a panel of political professionals if the Republican Party’s base voters are simply too culturally conservative – and too pro-life – for the party’s leadership and the general electorate. MSNBC’s host of The Daily Rundown and NBC News Chief White House Correspondent, Chuck Todd, played a clip for a Republican and Democratic political strategist on Friday of Republican National [...]
Colbert warns: Americans are going to start gay-marrying their weed
Thursday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert lamented the decline in our national moral character, as evinced by the fact that a majority of Americans now support same sex marriage and marijuana legalization, which can only end one way. People are going to start marrying their weed. A majority of Americans, Colbert said, now support some form of amnesty for undocumented immigrants “and marriage for The Gays.” “And now we’ve lost another moral battle,” he said. Recently, for the first time, a majority of Americans polled said that they believe that marijuana should be legal. “It’s bad enough that there’s medical marijuana in 18 states and recreational pot is now legal in Colorado and Washington and those two states are trying to turn Idaho into a bong,” he continued. Even worse, he said, people are comparing this “pot-astrophe” to “another attack on our moral values”: same sex marriage. “You hear that?” he asked. “It’s the same thing. ‘Oh! I can’t help who I am! I was born being attracted to watching 7 hours of “Planet Earth” while eating a sack of croutons!’” “Next thing you know, stoners are going to demand their civil right to marry their Mary [...]
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