Nancy Brinker is a liar and everyone knows it.

Plucked from Susan G. Komen, Founder and CEO, Nancy G. Brinker's statement today:

We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.

Bullshit!  Of course they were made for political reasons, and everyone knows it.  In fact Komen's response to the rage over dumping Planned Parenthood has been one of the most obvious pack of lies I've ever seen.

Komen's founder/CEO, Nancy Brinker, has always been close to the Republican party and the Bush II administration.  I suspect Komen has been under increasing pressure over the years from the anti-abortion radicals on the right to dump Planned Parenthood and Komen finally decided PP had been sufficiently weakened and cowed by Congress that they could now safely dump them and few would notice or complain.  Bad on Them!  The response has been stunning and Komen's reputation has taken a huge hit.  The strength of the response has shocked everyone. 

I think there are two things going on here.  1. Planned Parenthood has been around for a long time and has helped a lot of women when they were young and poor or when they were struggling students.  Many of these women are now successful and are angry to see Komen, another group they think highly of, drop them for obvious political reasons, and 2. we are shocked when a large disease prevention and research group succumbs to political pressure.  Most of us believe politics should never influence important health goals like preventing and curing cancer.  If Komen lets the conservatives bully them on this issue, what next, refusing grant money to groups that work with Latinos, some of them here illegally?  Or maybe refusing grants to certain universities thought to be too liberal?

This decision by Komen and the backlash will end up in textbooks as an example of bad judgement.  I believe it also shows that the right's hubris and bullying might have reached a breaking point.  Women may be feeling they've been pushed too far. 

--Trakker

Comments

[Ted McG]

Spoke a little early again didn't you twit?

Understandable from a serial feeder at the guvmint teat.

[Trakker]

Greg Sargent (WaPost) today:

"I asked Komen board member John Raffaelli to respond to those who are now saying that the announcement doesn’t necessarily constitute a reversal until Planned Parenthood actually sees more funding. He insisted it would be unfair to expect the group to commit to future grants.

“It would be highly unfair to ask us to commit to any organization that doesn’t go through a grant process that shows that the money we raise is used to carry out our mission,” Raffaelli told me. “We’re a humanitarian organization. We have a mission. Tell me you can help carry out our mission and we will sit down at the table.”
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Do you see anyone at Komen saying that PP will get their grants back next year? NO! This is just Komen pushing the issue down the road so they can find new excuses to deny PP funding and hope no one will notice.

As for your fucking shit-faced insults to government workers, I know we worked harder and did more good for this country than you and you little cadre of America-hating pissants ever have.

Every society has people like you who benefit every day from our hard work, and hate us for it. You don't even know what all we do for you do you? And yet with absolutely no knowledge you are willing to shit on us and demean your government.

I hope to Zeus my mind never gets so twisted that I begin hating and insulting people who make my life better.

I had to put up with people like you when I worked for the government and I had to smile and be polite because we have to, but as a retiree I no longer have to. So kiss my fucking ass, Ted. I feel sorry for you.