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Lawrence O’Donnell Tears Up In Dramatic Reading Of Letter From Planned Parenthood Supporter

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A century from now, children in social studies classes will look at the news reports of this decade and define our generation by how many news people appeared to constantly be on the verge of tears on television. Last night it was Lawrence O’Donnell‘s turn, who admitted that, although he had little experience with Planned Parenthood, he had friends who would be severely hurt by the organization’s defunding.

O’Donnell began his nightly “Rewrite” section admitting that Planned Parenthood has little impact to his personal life, but that this did not immunize him to understand the importance of the organization’s work with others. He then pulled out his phone and began to read an email from an unidentified female, “an unemployed victim of the Great Recession who can’t even watch cable TV.” After introducing the writer, O’Donnell read the letter in its entirety, which not only highlighted Planned Parenthood’s birth control services– which helped the writer obtain medication of market value close to $100 a bottle– but their health services, too. The writer explained that, suffering from regular cysts, the organization gave her her only opportunity to visit a doctor and have her breasts routinely checked for malignant cysts. What’s more, having lost her health insurance, she had not seen a non-Planned Parenthood doctor in a long time, and she did not have an alternative to Planned Parenthood should their services concluded.

Towards the end of the letter, O’Donnell’s voice cracked, and he dramatically turned his head to the side (think Alabama gubernatoral candidate Tim James) as he cut to commercial. He may have been making a point he very strongly believed in, but it ultimately came off as contrived. Then again, that isn’t entirely his fault– we are television viewers in the Glenn Beck era of news. Our current Speaker of the House appears to be seconds away from an emotional breakdown every time a camera comes within two yards of him. For those who were brought up on news a generation or two before– when only events like a presidential assassination could reduce a journalist to tears– it may have appeared more sincere than for the rest of viewers who can barely consider a news program a news program if there isn’t a man on it crying (women crying, of course, is unprofessional, wimpy, and simply passé). Even two years ago audiences were raving about Keith Olbermann‘s passionate anti-Prop 8 Special Comment; in light of new journalistic melodramatic sensibilities, the last of the Special Comments were rendered punchlines on arrival. O’Donnell’s take on that aesthetic– reading an email off a Blackberry and then crying to commercial– feels as outdated as it does contrived, particular on a topic of as moderate importance as Planned Parenthood’s federal funding.

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  • NeoKong

    The woman can pay for her Blackberry account but cannot afford birth control…..?
    And to Lawrence O’Donnell….enough with the tears man. You look like a total fag.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    The 332,278 abortions Planned Parenthood performed over the 365 days of 2009 equals an average of 910 lives terminated per day–or about 38 per hour, or one every 95 seconds !

    Now that their horrific behavior and actions have been exposed, Planned Parenthood will do an ACORN and change their name, while continuing the same disgusting behavior. I suggest they tell it like it is and call themselves: “Unborn Fetus Murderers R Us” with their slogan “One Billion Fetus Murders Served – and Counting.” (And, of course, “Want Fries with that Abortion?”)

    The warped ideology of the lunatic-left d-crat socialists: abort, abort, abort – and do it WITH TAXPAYER MONEY !

    Per The Washington Examiner, Planned Parenthood has contributed MILLIONS to get lunatic-left d-crat socialists elected. In 2012, they spent massively for Babs Boxer (D-imwit, CA) and Patty Murray (D-elusional, WA). That’s YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK !!!! No wonder dingy-harry reid so desperately wants to continue federal funding for PP – he doesn’t want to kill off one of the lunatic-left’s cash-cows.

    Hopefully, this recent disgraceful display by the lunatic-left d-crat socialists will convince millions more Americans that the ONLY WAY to get responsible government in Washington is to remove each and every d-crat socialist from the senate and the white house in Nov 2012, so these groups can join with a responsible House to fix the mess created by the lunatic-left.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    lol…”Please yell some sense into these people”.

    That is exactly O’Donnell’s problem. He’s turned into nothing more than a yeller.

    That’s gonna be my new name for him…

    Old Yeller.

  • Barack Must Go

    Larry wrote that himself just before he went on the air.All that behind the scenes time over at the West Wing production lot, watching all the actors in action has, on many occasions, this being one of them, paid off for this sleezy juice bag.

  • jo hoochie

    He needs to go back to acting school!! What a phony!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    Larry Overdose is a complete phony—-wasn’t he the one leering and making nasty about Boehner & Beck crying? What a complete train wreck of a human being, not fit for talk radio, let alone primetime TV BS, though he’s good at talking BS.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    jdubbleu said:
    he is master thespian

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  • MrTPar_taY

    C’mon now ‘Larr a nice moonlit stroll with your partner should make everything OK!

    I’m tearin’ up right now just thinkin’ about it-LMFAO! heheheheheheheheheheheh

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    Oh wait. You said thespian.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    NeoKong said:
    The woman can pay for her Blackberry account but cannot afford birth control…..?
    And to Lawrence O’Donnell….enough with the tears man. You look like a total fag.

    Hey genius she sent him an email which you can do for free at the library. He’s reading it on his blackberry. Homophobe!

    .

  • Big Eddie

    Liberals ( and socialists like Crazy Larry ) bring sob stories .

    Conservatives bring facts .

  • Pokerdude777

    Frances, this article needs to be updated. Please go find a segment where O’Donnell rails against Beck or Boehner for do the tear jerk boogie. Irony.

  • Alz

    It’s amazing the depth liberals will go to make sure we kill our offspring.

    Also, it’s important to label Lawrence as a Socialist because he labels himself a Socialist. It’s important so people know that he has an abnormal belief system. So something like “Socialist Lawrence O’Donnell” is good.

  • fanofamerica

    TeaPartyPatriot says: ““Unborn Fetus Murderers R Us” with their slogan “One Billion Fetus Murders Served – and Counting.” (And, of course, “Want Fries with that Abortion?”)

    Hey — I think you might have just stumbled upon something. If PP did offer fries with an abortion, that could be just the thing to shut them down. We know how much more abhorrent letting Americans choose what food they put in their mouth is than aborting unborn children.

  • fanofamerica

    ^^ to libs, that is.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Academy Award Performance? NAH!
    God! What a jerk this guy is!
    No ratings there, Lar !!

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    fanofamerica said:
    If PP did offer fries with an abortion, that could be just the thing to shut them down.

    Great idea!!!

    And instead of calling them Freedom Fries we could them Fetus Fries.

  • Pokerdude777

    ellie said:
    Hey genius she sent him an email which you can do for free at the library. He’s reading it on his blackberry. Homophobe! .

    I was wondering how long before someone suggested she can’t afford the internet or a computer so she walks 8 miles uphill both ways to a library in the snow barefooted to send O’Donell an email. I;m just wondering how she got O’Donnell’s email or even knew who he was for that matter. Hmmmm… oh and ending with calling the person he disagrees with a homophobe…. really??? WTF does being homophobic have to do with ANYTHING about this story or comment??? *sigh*

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Oh, I nearly forgot!
    Remember the beating from the lefties
    Beck and Boehner got for tearing up?

    WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.
    YOU ARE A PUSSY, LAR!!!!!!!!! LOL

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    Pokerdude777 said:
    WTF does being homophobic have to do with ANYTHING about this story or comment???

    Ask this guy…

    NeoKong says:
    You look like a total fag.

  • TampopoLoco

    Almost shutting down the Gov’t because of Planned Parenthood. The world is freaking laughing at us.

  • Alz

    Pokerdude777 said:
    I was wondering how long before someone suggested she can’t afford the internet or a computer so she walks 8 miles uphill both ways to a library in the snow barefooted to send O’Donell an email. I;m just wondering how she got O’Donnell’s email or even knew who he was for that matter. Hmmmm… oh and ending with calling the person he disagrees with a homophobe…. really??? WTF does being homophobic have to do with ANYTHING about this story or comment??? *sigh*

    She is probably a Democratic Party operative. See this example of what the liberals pull: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2007/11/cnn-plants-questions-to-protect-hillary.html

  • illusive man

    ellie said:
    Hey genius she sent him an email which you can do for free at the library. He’s reading it on his blackberry. Homophobe! .

    Only someone gullible would fall for this ellie, Don’t be that someone.

  • MrTPar_taY

    Alz said:
    It’s amazing the depth liberals will go to make sure we kill our offspring.

    Also, it’s important to label Lawrence as a Socialist because he labels himself a Socialist. It’s important so people know that he has an abnormal belief system. So something like “Socialist Lawrence O’Donnell” is good.

    Deep down inside ‘Larr O’D knows that his ma and pa couldn’t afford the coathanger so now we have to put up with his drama.

  • illusive man

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Ask this guy… NeoKong says:You look like a total fag.

    What?
    He’s calling Larry a biker, Not a Homosexual.
    Didn’t you get the memo?

  • MrTPar_taY

    ‘Larr O’D dreams of a Jon Stewart/’Larr O’D/Bill Maher sandwich.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    Pokerdude777 said:
    I was wondering how long before someone suggested she can’t afford the internet or a computer so she walks 8 miles uphill both ways to a library in the snow barefooted to send O’Donell an email. I;m just wondering how she got O’Donnell’s email or even knew who he was for that matter. Hmmmm… oh and ending with calling the person he disagrees with a homophobe…. really??? WTF does being homophobic have to do with ANYTHING about this story or comment??? *sigh*

    You have to be some kind of special stoopid to see him reading an email on his blackberry and think the sender must have a blackberry account. He said in the video that she was a friend. And I could send O’Donnell an email if I wanted to. Just go to his msnbc site and send him one. I can also talk to him via Twitter if I want to. The magic of the Internets. :)

    And the poster was called a homophobe because he made a homophobic remark. You must be some kind of special stoopid too since I have to walk you through what a 10 year old child would understand.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    illusive man said:
    Only someone gullible would fall for this ellie, Don’t be that someone.

    So since he was reading her email on his blackberry she must have a blackberry account. Got it.

  • illusive man

    ellie said:
    You have to be some kind of special stoopid to see him reading an email on his blackberry and think the sender must have a blackberry account. He said in the video that she was a friend. And I could send O’Donnell an email if I wanted to. Just go to his msnbc site and send him one. I can also talk to him via Twitter if I want to. The magic of the Internets. :) And the poster was called a homophobe because he made a homophobic remark. You must be some kind of special stoopid too since I have to walk you through what a 10 year old child would understand.

    I swear, No animal is more sensitive or annoying than a progressive.
    So emotionally weak they are.

  • Color Me Badd

    That was one of the more cynical disgusting pieces of shit I have read on Mediaite. A century from now people may indeed watch LOD and other cable news talking heads and reach this conclusion, but somehow I think Mediaite won’t be part of the discussion, thank G_d.

    The article illustrates very clearly how completely removed from the realities and hardships everyday people endure, when you spend your life trapped in a Washington bubble, where everything is about point scoring and about winning the game. I don’t know Francis Martel personally, but after reading this piece I would never want to know her.

  • illusive man

    ellie said:
    So since he was reading her email on his blackberry she must have a blackberry account. Got it.

    I’m not talking about the Blackberry, I’m talking about the sob-story Larry is obviously lying about.
    And even you must admit larry’s acting is subpar at best.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    illusive man said:
    I swear, No animal is more sensitive or annoying than a progressive.
    So emotionally weak they are.

    I’ll put you in the category of “she must have a blackberry account because he’s reading her email on his blackberry”. Or would you rather be with the group who thinks the State Dept. let Obama become the POTUS without a US birth certificate and using a foreign passport. This second group is particularly special. We’ll call them the supremely special stoopid group.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Color Me Badd said:
    I don’t know Francis Martel personally, but after reading this piece I would never want to know her.

    Imagine Francis’ disappointment…

  • felixw

    I’m sure letters from the 300,000 babies that Planned Parenthood aborted last year would be real tear jerkers too. Needless to say, they won’t ever get a chance to weigh in on this political debate on Mr. O’Donnell’s show.

    Remember when Democrats prided themselves on giving support to the weak and defenseless? My, how things have changed!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    illusive man said:
    I’m not talking about the Blackberry, I’m talking about the sob-story Larry is obviously lying about.
    And even you must admit larry’s acting is subpar at best.

    He’s a ham for sure.

  • unmutual

    Crocodile tears from a snake.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    Color Me Badd said:
    That was one of the more cynical disgusting pieces of shit I have read on Mediaite. A century from now people may indeed watch LOD and other cable news talking heads and reach this conclusion, but somehow I think Mediaite won’t be part of the discussion, thank G_d.

    The article illustrates very clearly how completely removed from the realities and hardships everyday people endure, when you spend your life trapped in a Washington bubble, where everything is about point scoring and about winning the game. I don’t know Francis Martel personally, but after reading this piece I would never want to know her.

    It’s only the lazy liberals don’t cha know. They don’t matter.

  • Puter Boi

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnddd…..scene……..

  • TampopoLoco

    jdubbleu said:
    yeah we should give a shit about what the world thinks. you must be a self-hating libpussy…

    As someone who actually travels to other countries, i do care what the world thinks of us. I’m no hick that never leaves America.

  • notsofast

    What a complete cry baby!

    Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa- women won’t be able to kill the unborn!

    Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • RowdyHoward

    Alz said:
    It’s amazing the depth liberals will go to make sure we kill our offspring.

    Also, it’s important to label Lawrence as a Socialist because he labels himself a Socialist. It’s important so people know that he has an abnormal belief system. So something like “Socialist Lawrence O’Donnell” is good.

    …and the depths some people go to remove the rights of the ‘living’. Abstinence is not birth control…neither is abortion. Do you really believe people like getting abortions?

  • TampopoLoco

    notsofast said:
    What a complete cry baby!

    Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa- women won’t be able to kill the unborn!

    Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    Wow! You sound like one of those crazy guys with picket signs and bible in hand that protests at abortion clinics

  • TampopoLoco

    jdubbleu said:
    ive already been in germany, austria and russia this year, how about you? i stand by my statement.

    Please…

  • RowdyHoward

    TampopoLoco said:
    Wow! You sound like one of those crazy guys with picket signs and bible in hand that protests at abortion clinics

    That’s because he is “son”!!!!!

  • cjd ohio 1

    TampopoLoco said:
    Wow! You sound like one of those crazy guys with picket signs and bible in hand that protests at abortion clinics

    or piss and shit in a state capitol…oops wrong side lol

  • Barack Must Go

    ellie said:
    I’ll put you in the category of “she must have a blackberry account because he’s reading her email on his blackberry”. Or would you rather be with the group who thinks the State Dept. let Obama become the POTUS without a US birth certificate and using a foreign passport. This second group is particularly special. We’ll call them the supremely special stoopid group.

    During Larry’s performance he states, this woman cannot even afford cable and so she cannot watch my program, but she knows all about him and can afford a monthly Blackberry cell phone bill including text.

    There’s something rotten in ObamaVision land, and it’s the brains of the liberal dolts that buy this _____.

  • kit9

    Ladies and gentlemen, the new Beck! Crazy Larry, aka ‘Creepy Liar!’ Larry is ready to step up and fill the void!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Lets not forget, Lawrence O’Donnell’ is a self described socialist.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxKd5lpZwLY

  • notsofast

    TampopoLoco said:
    You sound like one of those crazy guys with picket signs and bible in hand that protests at abortion clinics

    Sorry, son, you sound like the women who say” I have had more abortions than I care to remember.”

  • notsofast

    Larry, do you cry like that over the millions of aborted children?

    I didn’t think so.

  • TfT

    Will his colleagues at MSNBC make fun of him now?

    Crazy Larry indeed.

  • notsofast

    Larry is the next Glenn Beck! Cry son, cry!

    LOL

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    Barack Must Go said:
    During Larry’s performance he states, this woman cannot even afford cable and so she cannot watch my program, but she knows all about him and can afford a monthly Blackberry cell phone bill including text.

    Here it is again. Can people really be this dense?

  • WCinWI

    I watched part of this live. I wouldn’t call the person a supporter. I would consider the person a user of PP. Time to rework the title. :)

  • notsofast

    Sorry Larry, PP DOES NOT PERFORM mammograms!

    The fact is not one Planned Parenthood in America performs mammograms

    BTW, Larry is this the same woman in NY how said she was so poor that she now actually wears her dead sister’s false teeth?

    This is the biggest piece of lib propaganda ever.

  • RyGuy

    What was she spending all of her money on before she lost her job? Obviously not checkups at the doctor, so that’s her fault, sorry. Why can’t ODonnell spread his wealth around and help his friend out instead of letting her become dependent on the government? Hmmm…. Socialists..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    RyGuy said:
    What was she spending all of her money on before she lost her job? Obviously not checkups at the doctor, so that’s her fault, sorry.

    Here’s hoping everyone in your family and all your friends and you in particularly are treated with the same concern and compassion you offer others. And here’s also hoping that you remember my wish for you if ever you find yourself, your children, your parents and anyone else who is dear to you … in different circumstances.

  • cjd ohio 1

    ellie said:
    Here’s hoping everyone in your family and all your friends and you in particularly are treated with the same concern and compassion you offer others. And here’s also hoping that you remember my wish for you if ever you find yourself, your children, your parents and anyone else who is dear to you … in different circumstances.

    why should he? government will take care of it right

  • Barack Must Go

    ellie said:
    Here it is again. Can people really be this dense?

    That’s the point I am trying to make to you. Simply because YOU take the leap of faith that Larry is on the up & up and that this woman borrowed someone elses comuter, cell phone, or let me guess she is Public Library card owner, does not change the facts. You believe what you want to believe without question when it comes from a left wing bomb throwers, especially one that is an employee of ObamaVision, yet you vilify even legitimate, run of the mill stories from any conservative, if there isn,t a video tape as proof. That’s all.

  • Color Me Badd

    notsofast said:
    Larry, do you cry like that over the millions of aborted children?

    I didn’t think so.

    They arent children so no we don’t cry at all.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Color Me Badd said:
    They arent children so no we don’t cry at all.

    i wish they would tell that for the traffic laws in ohio

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 Ellen Carey Rowe

    Barack Must Go said:
    That’s the point I am trying to make to you. Simply because YOU take the leap of faith that Larry is on the up & up and that this woman borrowed someone elses comuter, cell phone, or let me guess she is Public Library card owner, does not change the facts. You believe what you want to believe without question when it comes from a left wing bomb throwers, especially one that is an employee of ObamaVision, yet you vilify even legitimate, run of the mill stories from any conservative, if there isn,t a video tape as proof. That’s all.

    Let me see if I can break this down for you so even YOU can understand it.

    1. You said that because O’Donnell read the email on his blackberry the women must have a blackberry account.
    With a blackberry you can read any emails no matter where they are sent from or on what kind of account the sender has. Even if the sender sends it from the library, which you can do for free if you no longer can afford an Internet connection.

    2. You question how the woman knows Larry.
    If you had actually watched the tape you would know that O’Donnell said that she was a friend who had lost her job so she could no longer afford cable TV. A friend! She knew him! She didn’t need cable TV to know him … only to be able to watch his show.

    3. You wondered how she could afford a blackberry account including text.
    If you watch the tape you will see that she did not send a text message she sent an email.

    Now please don’t take this as my defense of O’Donnell at all costs. Please consider it my defense against the stoopid!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 Ellen Carey Rowe

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    why should he? government will take care of it right

    Why should he what? Have concern and compassion? I don’t know, maybe for a silly reason like do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Because it is the humane thing to do? Because in these times anyone’s life circumstance could change unexpectedly? Because unless you’ve walked in someone else’s shoes you should not judge lest ye be judged?

    If you’re looking for altruistic reasons I have a boatload of em.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Why should he what? Have concern and compassion? I don’t know, maybe for a silly reason like do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Because it is the humane thing to do? Because in these times anyone’s life circumstance could change unexpectedly? Because unless you’ve walked in someone else’s shoes you should not judge lest ye be judged? If you’re looking for altruistic reasons I have a boatload of em.

    nope, by why stress, government will take care of it

  • StandUp

    Sympathy and tears for a woman who can’t get free birth control or a free abortion, or get cable TV, but no compassion for the murder of innocent unborn children. Yep, I want to join the Prog/Soc/Lib club.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Here’s hoping everyone in your family and all your friends and you in particularly are treated with the same concern and compassion you offer others. And here’s also hoping that you remember my wish for you if ever you find yourself, your children, your parents and anyone else who is dear to you … in different circumstances.

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Why should he what? Have concern and compassion? I don’t know, maybe for a silly reason like do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Because it is the humane thing to do? Because in these times anyone’s life circumstance could change unexpectedly? Because unless you’ve walked in someone else’s shoes you should not judge lest ye be judged? If you’re looking for altruistic reasons I have a boatload of em.

    And larry didnt seem that concerned, he let a friend live like that and didnt offer anything but government money, not his. If he was a good friend he would have helped her out ,but no, its the governments job

  • StandUp

    Is it just me, or has anyone else ever noticed that many people who “need” GovCo. assistance, have cell phones, drive nice cars, wear the latest fashion, smoke, and/or are overweight?

    It’s probably just me and my stereotyping, prejudicial, racist, hatred of everyone not like me.

  • rubberneck

    Oh give us a big cry Larry!

  • illusive man

    Color Me Badd said:
    They arent children so no we don’t cry at all.

    You are a monument to your father’s failure as a parent.
    He should be ashamed.

  • NeoKong

    Geez…that Ellen lady is sure uptight.
    So where exactly from does Lawrence know this poor soul with no job or cable T.V. who has to send him e-mails on public computers from the library sobbing about how she has no birth control and apparently no self control either….?
    Did he meet her down at the homeless shelter while he was ladling out free soup?

    “If you ever need me to tell the world your story here is my e-mail. Do you have a Blackberry….? Oh of course you don’t because you can’t even afford birth control. Don’t worry though. You can always reach me at from the public library like so many other people do.
    Oh damn…that’s my limo out front. I gotta’ go. Good luck.”

  • cjd ohio 1

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    And larry didnt seem that concerned, he let a friend live like that and didnt offer anything but government money, not his. If he was a good friend he would have helped her out ,but no, its the governments job

    its good to have a friend like larry

  • Arkansas Steve

    I’d vote to defund Planned Parenthood in a heartbeat. But I don’t mind Larry trying to make a case for them.
    They probably do some good things between providing or enabling abortions.

    The REAL QUESTION HERE is:
    Exactly how stupid does Lawrence O’Donnell think his viewers are??
    Does he think ANYONE will fall for his little “drama queen” act??
    Can’t he tell that while he fakes tears, EVERYONE is laughing at him??

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 Ellen Carey Rowe

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    nope, by why stress, government will take care of it

    Sorry. This isn’t a sentence and I can’t follow it.

  • Alz

    StandUp said:
    Is it just me, or has anyone else ever noticed that many people who “need” GovCo. assistance, have cell phones, drive nice cars, wear the latest fashion, smoke, and/or are overweight?

    It’s probably just me and my stereotyping, prejudicial, racist, hatred of everyone not like me.

    The liberals don’t publicize it much, but many people have free cell phones AND service: https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/home.aspx

    There are about 2 MILLION people on this. It started years ago to help the few remaining rural telephone customers but liberals have perverted it to make sure a lot more people are eligible.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 Ellen Carey Rowe

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    nd larry didnt seem that concerned, he let a friend live like that and didnt offer anything but government money, not his. If he was a good friend he would have helped her out ,but no, its the governments job

    Do you have anything to back up this statement?

  • cjd ohio 1

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Sorry. This isn’t a sentence and I can’t follow it.

    lol, play dumb, fine with me

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 Ellen Carey Rowe

    StandUp said:
    Is it just me, or has anyone else ever noticed that many people who “need” GovCo. assistance, have cell phones, drive nice cars, wear the latest fashion, smoke, and/or are overweight?

    It’s probably just me and my stereotyping, prejudicial, racist, hatred of everyone not like me.

    Good self-awareness.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Do you have anything to back up this statement?

    well no cable, planned parenthood for care, unemployed, uninsured, and according to you, no cell phone and had to use the library for internet, do you have anything thats shows he did help her? no, well there you go

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 Ellen Carey Rowe

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    lol, play dumb, fine with me

    Go back and read it and tell me if it’s a sentence you can follow.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Do you have anything to back up this statement?

    oh and he was asking for government money, but didnt offer any of his own

  • OxyCon

    What a lousy Socialist O’Donnell is, letting his friends go without basic services even though he has enormous wealth in comparison.

    Typical “Do as I say, not as I do” socialist liberal.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Why should he what? Have concern and compassion? I don’t know, maybe for a silly reason like do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Because it is the humane thing to do? Because in these times anyone’s life circumstance could change unexpectedly? Because unless you’ve walked in someone else’s shoes you should not judge lest ye be judged? If you’re looking for altruistic reasons I have a boatload of em.

    concern-nope, stress-nope, government will take care of any problems

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Sorry. This isn’t a sentence and I can’t follow it.

  • Barack Must Go

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Let me see if I can break this down for you so even YOU can understand it.

    1. You said that because O’Donnell read the email on his blackberry the women must have a blackberry account.
    With a blackberry you can read any emails no matter where they are sent from or on what kind of account the sender has. Even if the sender sends it from the library, which you can do for free if you no longer can afford an Internet connection.

    2. You question how the woman knows Larry.
    If you had actually watched the tape you would know that O’Donnell said that she was a friend who had lost her job so she could no longer afford cable TV. A friend! She knew him! She didn’t need cable TV to know him … only to be able to watch his show.

    3. You wondered how she could afford a blackberry account including text.
    If you watch the tape you will see that she did not send a text message she sent an email.

    Now please don’t take this as my defense of O’Donnell at all costs. Please consider it my defense against the stoopid!

    You’ve been duped by this lying jackass, but you’ll argue the point while lying to yourself about arguing his point.

    She somehow has access to a computer, not explained along with the no cable tear jerker angle.

    I also do not believe Larry has friends and if he ever got one she and her myriad of problems ( cysts, no job, no insurance etc ) should not have to be clumsily read ( like Obama with an errent teleprompter ) like that.

    Also instead of balling like school girl, why didn’t this communist bastard help this supposed oh close friend of his before she needed to be talked down off the roof….you dolt? Answer: He made the whole _____ing thing up and you just closed your eyes and swallowed….and we’re the stoopid ones.

  • StandUp

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Good self-awareness.

    That last part was a sarcastic joke…but you knew that. I don’t sterotype, prejudge, or hate anyone…period.

    How about proving the first part of my statement wrong. If you think it’s OK for people to live that way, consuming instead of producing, that’s fine…it’s a free country and you can have that opinion. I disagree as do an overwhelming majority of hard working Americans who are tired of providing for others.

  • illusive man

    Barack Must Go said:
    You’ve been duped by this lying jackass, but you’ll argue the point while lying to yourself about arguing his point.

    She’s a progressive, What did you expect?
    A collectivist can’t think for itself you know.

  • Barack Must Go

    illusive man said:
    She’s a progressive, What did you expect?
    A collectivist can’t think for itself you know.

    This one almost talks the talk once in a while but refuses to spit out the wad of gum so walking might someday be possible.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Ellen says:

    You have to be some kind of special stoopid to see him reading an email on his blackberry and think the sender must have a blackberry account.

    Actually you have to be some kind of special stupid to think anyone believes these stories the liberals sell. Those with a brain, don’t.

  • leftistvermin

    Larry has no doubt has knocked-up a couple of crack whores and didn’t wanna pay for the abortion, so they had to get one on the taxpayer dime at the local fetus slaughtering factory. Very emotional for him to think about it.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    This issue is a total JOKE. Planned Parenthood does not need money from the government. This is a small amout of their total budget. They just use this money to give right back to the democrats to elect them. They make tons of money doing abortions, that is their business and ONLY business.

    The same is true for Public Television and radio. They just launder money for the democrats.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    TampopoLoco said:
    Almost shutting down the Gov’t because of Planned Parenthood. The world is freaking laughing at us.

    Our budget is NONE of the “world’s” business.

  • Alz

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Do you have anything to back up this statement?

    And why do you care? You don’t use any information given to you as a way to get better through seeking the truth?

    I haven’t seen you once give us an idea that you use information to learn. All you do is whine and attack people.

    In a civilized society, we use tools like reason to advance. Have you heard of reason? It involves as many facts as possible, not just the facts that support your preconceived notions.

    Now, with that said, there are OTHER people who read this who DO want to find out what is best. Some of them can probably see that you are deficient.

  • ChrisNH

    There’s no way that someone who looks like and has the demeanor of a spouse- and child-beater–which O’Donnell clearly does–would tear up over this. Clearly, this is Leftist media stagecraft brought to you by a hack who’s an expert at same.

  • LOGICandREASON

    Lawrence O’Donnell should shut up and go have a beer in a Socialist pub.

    More than 30 offices of Planned Parenthood were called and NONE agreed to offering mammograms to women. There has been 52,008,665 (as of January 2010)million abortions in the United States alone since Roe v. Wade in 1973; even Planned Parenthood provided “their own fact” sheet last month that showed they performed 332,278 abortions in the United States in 2009.

    332,278 abortions in 365 days of 2009 is 910 lives terminated each day(38 lives terminated every sixty minutes, or 1 every 95 seconds). If this is not enough for anyone to weep about, then one should wonder if it’s the value of human life that Lawrence O’Donnell is more concerned about or a left-wing political agenda.

    Before you weep about her right to healthcare, or the so called healthcare services offered by Planned Parenthood, you should first address the most vital fundamental right: RIGHT TO LIFE

    All other rights and privileges are meaningless without life itself; unfortunately the babies in the womb cannot write SOS emails and have no Lawrence O’Donnell to weep for them.

    “There is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of ‘all human beings’, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.” — Ronald Reagan

  • White Ninja

    When people talk about defunding things like NPR and PP the leftist argument is “It’s such a tiny portion of their budget so it doesn’t matter”

    When people ACTUALLY try to defund them the argument is “NO! It’s such a huge part of the budget! They’ll have to shut down!”

    So which is it? Does it not matter or does it matter immensely? If as many leftists who whined about the evils of defunding put their money where their mouth is this debate wouldn’t even be happening and PP would probably have MORE funding.

  • Alz

    LOGICandREASON said:
    Lawrence O’Donnell should shut up and go have a beer in a Socialist pub.

    More than 30 offices of Planned Parenthood were called and NONE agreed to offering mammograms to women. There has been 52,008,665 (as of January 2010)million abortions in the United States alone since Roe v. Wade in 1973; even Planned Parenthood provided “their own fact” sheet last month that showed they performed 332,278 abortions in the United States in 2009.

    332,278 abortions in 365 days of 2009 is 910 lives terminated each day(38 lives terminated every sixty minutes, or 1 every 95 seconds). If this is not enough for anyone to weep about, then one should wonder if it’s the value of human life that Lawrence O’Donnell is more concerned about or a left-wing political agenda.

    Before you weep about her right to healthcare, or the so called healthcare services offered by Planned Parenthood, you should first address the most vital fundamental right: RIGHT TO LIFE

    All other rights and privileges are meaningless without life itself; unfortunately the babies in the womb cannot write SOS emails and have no Lawrence O’Donnell to weep for them.

    “There is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of ‘all human beings’, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.” — Ronald Reagan

    Liberals like Socialist Lawrence don’t realize how much they benefit from Freedom of Speech. Otherwise, they would have been shouted down for stupidity decades ago. They’re also lucky that conservatives are so tolerant.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    Do you have anything to back up this statement?

    bail out lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 Ellen Carey Rowe

    StandUp said:
    How about proving the first part of my statement wrong. If you think it’s OK for people to live that way, consuming instead of producing, that’s fine…it’s a free country and you can have that opinion. I disagree as do an overwhelming majority of hard working Americans who are tired of providing for others.

    We’re in a recession. Many have lost their jobs. Your compassion for your brothers and sisters in these hard times is noted. Thanks for sharing. :)

  • Who is Salacious Crumb

    Ellen Carey Rowe said:
    We’re in a recession.

    Technically, we’re not anymore.

  • gajack

    Boston tough guy? What a Wussy!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 Ellen Carey Rowe

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    bail out lol

    Not exactly. My cat had a severe asthma attack and I had to rush her to the hospital.

  • jrcmi

    LACKINGLOGICandREASON said:
    Planned Parenthood provided “their own fact” sheet last month that showed they performed 332,278 abortions in the United States in 2009.

    You conveniently – and hypocritically – ignore the 11 million OTHER procedures PP performed that year – including 4 million vasectomies. (I hope YOU had one.) You also fail to note that abortions constituted only 3 percent of total procedures.

    “More than 30 offices of Planned Parenthood were called and NONE agreed to offering mammograms to women. ”

    From YOUR report:

    ” – Cancer Screening and Prevention — 16 percent of services in 2009

    – Pap Tests 904,820
    – HPV Vaccinations 44,924
    – Breast Exams/ Breast Care 830,312
    – Colposcopy Procedures *** 46,062
    – LOOP/LEEP Procedures *** 2,692
    – Cryotherapy Procedures *** 2,001″

    Mammograms are a radiological procedure, which are typically done at hospitals, not clinics. Presumably, PP refers women to such facilities. Your right-wing friends are misleading you . . . though you seem to be gladly misled.

    You fail to properly cite your own source – which probably wasn’t the actual PP report.

    (http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/PP_Services.pdf)

    A woman I know became pregnant despite using birth control. She learned that the fetus was dying inside her and that SHE would die, too, unless she had an abortion. Would you insist that your own sister, wife or daughter carry a doomed fetus – and die herself?

    Like it or lump it, abortion is legal. If you don’t like the law, change it instead of holding the entire country – which mostly disagrees with you – hostage.

  • Barack Must Go

    jrcmi said:
    You conveniently – and hypocritically – ignore the 11 million OTHER procedures PP performed that year – including 4 million vasectomies. (I hope YOU had one.) You also fail to note that abortions constituted only 3 percent of total procedures.

    “More than 30 offices of Planned Parenthood were called and NONE agreed to offering mammograms to women. ”

    From YOUR report:

    ” – Cancer Screening and Prevention — 16 percent of services in 2009

    – Pap Tests 904,820
    – HPV Vaccinations 44,924
    – Breast Exams/ Breast Care 830,312
    – Colposcopy Procedures *** 46,062
    – LOOP/LEEP Procedures *** 2,692
    – Cryotherapy Procedures *** 2,001″

    Mammograms are a radiological procedure, which are typically done at hospitals, not clinics. Presumably, PP refers women to such facilities. Your right-wing friends are misleading you . . . though you seem to be gladly misled.

    You fail to properly cite your own source – which probably wasn’t the actual PP report.

    (http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/PP_Services.pdf)

    A woman I know became pregnant despite using birth control. She learned that the fetus was dying inside her and that SHE would die, too, unless she had an abortion. Would you insist that your own sister, wife or daughter carry a doomed fetus – and die herself?

    Like it or lump it, abortion is legal. If you don’t like the law, change it instead of holding the entire country – which mostly disagrees with you – hostage.

    Do you know if PP or the left wing bomb thrower press have done any bookeeping audits to determine how much dollars are eaten up through the abortion part of the business vs other services ? They keep throwing out this three percent per actual number of babies murdered 333,000 vs 905,000 pap smears etc. But what is the actual cost of these murders is more to the point, yet conspicuously absent in the press.

  • Barack Must Go

    Barack Must Go said:
    You’ve been duped by this lying jackass, but you’ll argue the point while lying to yourself about arguing his point.

    She somehow has access to a computer, not explained along with the no cable tear jerker angle.

    I also do not believe Larry has friends and if he ever got one she and her myriad of problems ( cysts, no job, no insurance etc ) should not have to be clumsily read ( like Obama with an errent teleprompter ) like that.

    Also instead of balling like school girl, why didn’t this communist bastard help this supposed oh close friend of his before she needed to be talked down off the roof….you dolt? Answer: He made the whole _____ing thing up and you just closed your eyes and swallowed….and we’re the stoopid ones.

    I love the sound of crickets in the morning.

  • Pablo

    Color Me Badd said:
    They arent children so no we don’t cry at all.

    Scott Peterson could really use your help. Can you make that case in a courtroom, because it’s the death of Conner Peterson that’s got Scotty’s ass on death row.

  • cjd ohio 1

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    well no cable, planned parenthood for care, unemployed, uninsured, and according to you, no cell phone and had to use the library for internet, do you have anything thats shows he did help her? no, well there you go

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    oh and he was asking for government money, but didnt offer any of his own

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    bail out lol

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Color me Ignorant says:

    They arent children so no we don’t cry at all.

    You obviously don’t have any kids (hoping you keep it that way). I could make out my sons face from the ultrasound fairly early on. You just like to tell yourselves it’s not a child so you can sleep after you killed one.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Hey Color me Ignorant, do you agree with Der Leader that if a child survives an assassination attempt, via abortion, that you should be able to then finish the job? You people are disgusting.

  • cjd ohio 1

    ellie said:
    Not exactly. My cat had a severe asthma attack and I had to rush her to the hospital.

    but still hasn’t answered lol

  • Phocus2

    What is wrong with America? We take money from hard working people so we can get birth control to some broad so she won’t get pregnant Friday or Saturday while throwing caution to the wind and banging anything hard. Try keeping your legs together until you find another job and can pay for your own pills Toots.

    And of course O’Donnell teared up, he’s banging the broad too and he just found out she’s out of pills. Plus, who wouldn’t be sad if these wonderful women can’t kill the babies they conceive. Sick…

  • bhpurmell

    O’Donnell, if you are so choked up , just send a check, but I don’t give a damn so don’t insist that we support this crap.

  • andthehorseyourodeinon

    Another MSNBC jerk off.

  • Kat

    Barack Must Go said:
    I also do not believe Larry has friends and if he ever got one she and her myriad of problems ( cysts, no job, no insurance etc ) should not have to be clumsily read ( like Obama with an errent teleprompter ) like that.
    Also instead of balling like school girl, why didn’t this communist bastard help this supposed oh close friend of his before she needed to be talked down off the roof….you dolt? Answer: He made the whole _____ing thing up and you just closed your eyes and swallowed….and we’re the stoopid ones.

    OxyCon said:
    What a lousy Socialist O’Donnell is, letting his friends go without basic services even though he has enormous wealth in comparison.

    I suppose it never occurred to any of you that maybe this is the first he had heard of his friends problems. I don’t tell my friends every detail of my life. Apparently from her email this PP debate is of such importance to her she decided she had to explain what was going on in her life. Maybe that is why he teared up. Finding out just how bad his friend had it for the first time. And maybe now he will reach out and help her, past this reading of her email on air. You guys are so damn cold and callous, not to mention selfish. If you guys ever find yourselves in this womans (and many others) shoes you gonna have a hard rude awakening to what life is like on the down side. Good Luck with that.

  • Kat

    Ignorant Liberal Tormentor said:
    Hey Color me Ignorant, do you agree with Der Leader that if a child survives an assassination attempt, via abortion, that you should be able to then finish the job? You people are disgusting.

    “There was a bill that came up in Illinois that was called the ‘Born Alive’ bill that purported to require life-saving treatment to such infants. And I did vote against that bill,” Obama said Tuesday. “The reason was that there was already a law in place in Illinois that said that you always have to supply life-saving treatment to any infant under any circumstances, and this bill actually was designed to overturn Roe v. Wade, so I didn’t think it was going to pass constitutional muster.”

    http://hyerstandard.com/2008/07/04/obama-supports-roe-v-wade-but-cannot-support-late-term-abortions/

    Telling lies is not a very good example for your son to see his mother do.

  • Dem4Ever

    Everyone knows abortion is wrong…it’s just so convenient that we can’t get ourselves to give it up.

  • jrcmi

    “what is the actual cost of these murders[?]”

    Abortion is a legal medical procedure.

    PP is a non-profit organization whose finances are a matter of public record.

    Phocus2 said:
    We take money from hard working people so we can get birth control to some broad . . .

    “Some broad” wouldn’t get pregnant WITHOUT “anything hard.” Don’t MEN have some responsibility, too? Why is the burden – and blame – always put on the woman?

    Birth control is far cheaper than supporting unwanted children – which you don’t want to pay for, either – even though you insist they be born. Hypocrisy and short-sightedness seem to go together, don’t they?

    I suppose you think all rape victims were “asking for it.”

    “he’s banging the broad”

    And you know this HOW? Window-peeper, huh? Sick.

  • Kat

    Phocus2 said:
    What is wrong with America? We take money from hard working people so we can get birth control to some broad so she won’t get pregnant Friday or Saturday while throwing caution to the wind and banging anything hard. Try keeping your legs together until you find another job and can pay for your own pills Toots. And of course O’Donnell teared up, he’s banging the broad too and he just found out she’s out of pills. Plus, who wouldn’t be sad if these wonderful women can’t kill the babies they conceive. Sick…

    The sheer ignorance of your post should be ignored completely. But….if you had seen his show or read this article it was not about *birth control pills* it was about *a lump* that could have been cancerous and still has to be monitored.

  • Kat

    Dem4Ever said:
    Everyone knows abortion is wrong…it’s just so convenient that we can’t get ourselves to give it up.

    Right and it’s just such an easy and convenient thing to do, women have one on a regular basis. Like clockwork. Maye Dr Drew can have a new show called ” Abortion Addiction Rehab”. *rolls eyes*

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Marc-Wilks/745501965 Marc Wilks

    If more people would do five seconds worth of research, they would find that Planned Parenthood was created by a xenophobic racist Margret Sanger for the express purpose of eradicating blacks and other ‘undesirables’. And they are succeeding beyond Sanger’s wildest dreams. Thirty-seven percent of all abortions performed by PP are performed on black women.

  • Kat

    Marc Wilks said:
    If more people would do five seconds worth of research, they would find that Planned Parenthood was created by a xenophobic racist Margret Sanger for the express purpose of eradicating blacks and other ‘undesirables’. And they are succeeding beyond Sanger’s wildest dreams. Thirty-seven percent of all abortions performed by PP are performed on black women.

    Are these black women being corralled up and forced to have an abortion?

    I’m pretty sure you have to sign a consent form. Hence it would be their “choice”. As in pro-choice.

  • racknstack

    I used to be one of these “pro-lifers” until I realized something profound. For every dollar spent on abortions, it probably saves the taxpayer FOUR dollars. All of my pro-lifer friends think about this for just a second. Whose babies are we actually saving by cutting off PP services? The reduction in crime that started to happen in the late 80s was because those 18 year old criminal street urchins never made it because their moms aborted them back in 1972. It was not because of better police tactics, or better funding for crime fighting.

    Be careful what you wish for, pro-lifers. Because it just may come back to bite you in the a$$. Or take your purse.

  • racknstack

    Barack Must Go said:
    Do you know if PP or the left wing bomb thrower press have done any bookeeping audits to determine how much dollars are eaten up through the abortion part of the business vs other services ? They keep throwing out this three percent per actual number of babies murdered 333,000 vs 905,000 pap smears etc. But what is the actual cost of these murders is more to the point, yet conspicuously absent in the press.

    Hey, that’s 333,000 less people on the welfare payrolls. I’m amazed by the Republican supporters’ double entendre. If you don’t want to give them benefits for life (as you would for welfare), why not just pay to abort them? Which would you rather have? Go ahead, I’ll wait.

  • Alz

    Marc Wilks said:
    If more people would do five seconds worth of research, they would find that Planned Parenthood was created by a xenophobic racist Margret Sanger for the express purpose of eradicating blacks and other ‘undesirables’. And they are succeeding beyond Sanger’s wildest dreams. Thirty-seven percent of all abortions performed by PP are performed on black women.

    Yes and it wasn’t only in the 20′s and 30′s:

    What did Ruth Bader Ginsberg say in 2009 about Roe v Wade: Answer: “Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”?

    Yes, this was 2009. Exactly which populations “that we don’t want to have too many of” was she referring to?

    It’s the liberals who are racists. They work to keep the Blacks dependent on government and they fund abortion mills right in predominantly Black areas. It’s gross.

  • Alz

    racknstack said:
    I used to be one of these “pro-lifers” until I realized something profound. For every dollar spent on abortions, it probably saves the taxpayer FOUR dollars. All of my pro-lifer friends think about this for just a second. Whose babies are we actually saving by cutting off PP services? The reduction in crime that started to happen in the late 80s was because those 18 year old criminal street urchins never made it because their moms aborted them back in 1972. It was not because of better police tactics, or better funding for crime fighting.

    Be careful what you wish for, pro-lifers. Because it just may come back to bite you in the a$$. Or take your purse.

    What kind of culture kills its offspring? It’s sick and Conservatives/pro-life people know it.

    The solution to the poor problem is to help people succeed and to gain wealth. As we see, as people gain wealth the birthrate drops. The liberal answer to kill our offspring is gross.

  • X-3

    So, no one is going to make fun of -0′Donnell for his crock tears?

  • White Ninja

    racknstack said:
    I used to be one of these “pro-lifers” until I realized something profound. For every dollar spent on abortions, it probably saves the taxpayer FOUR dollars. All of my pro-lifer friends think about this for just a second. Whose babies are we actually saving by cutting off PP services? The reduction in crime that started to happen in the late 80s was because those 18 year old criminal street urchins never made it because their moms aborted them back in 1972. It was not because of better police tactics, or better funding for crime fighting.

    Be careful what you wish for, pro-lifers. Because it just may come back to bite you in the a$$. Or take your purse.

    Uh…pro-lifers aren’t about the money, theyre about morals. That’s a sick reason to switch to prochoice. The government not funding something doesn’t mean it CANNOT happen. It’s called *charity* something the left has largely absolved itself from in lieu of taxes so they can wash their hands of helping people. But as to your claim on crime rates I saw Freakonomics too but try this one on for size: http://www.isteve.com/abortion.htm

  • Barack Must Go

    Kat said:
    I suppose it never occurred to any of you that maybe this is the first he had heard of his friends problems. I don’t tell my friends every detail of my life. Apparently from her email this PP debate is of such importance to her she decided she had to explain what was going on in her life. Maybe that is why he teared up. Finding out just how bad his friend had it for the first time. And maybe now he will reach out and help her, past this reading of her email on air. You guys are so damn cold and callous, not to mention selfish. If you guys ever find yourselves in this womans (and many others) shoes you gonna have a hard rude awakening to what life is like on the down side. Good Luck with that.

    Where on God’s green earth were you when I was selling my 1975 Gremlin…..cheap too.

  • Kat

    Barack Must Go said:
    Where on God’s green earth were you when I was selling my 1975 Gremlin…..cheap too.

    Figures right in you would’ve had a Gremlin Stripe.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Diane-Sower/100000612793485 Diane Sower

    Pro-lifers are nothing about pro-life. Cutting Head Start, taking away programs for the poor, oh yes, I get it, all those women who should be giving birth are all to blame for any and all circumstances. How about let’s change the tax code so the major corporations like Wells Fargo, Citigroups, General Electric, and a bunch more pay some taxes. That’s right, there’s a pro-life concern. There’d be plenty of money if their tax records didn’t indicate ZERO payment of taxes. Cut entitlement programs? Why? The elephant in the room is supporting those businesses who pay no taxes, supporting lobbyists who make Congress persons rich, and guarantee we’ll never see John McCain’s campaign finance reform. You think we have a democracy? You think capitalism works splendidly? How come no one on Wall Street has gone to jail? Let’s have pro-life all the way, from conception through out life, and I don’t mean a welfare state. I mean what’s fair is fair. We will see revolt in this country, once the middle class is gone, and buzz words like abortion aren’t putting food on the table.

  • poloniusmonk

    I couldn’t care less about O’Donnell’s crocodile tears or any other politician’s at this point. As a journalist, I care about two things concerning this column, and they are both contained in the same sentence:

    “O’Donnell’s take on that aesthetic– reading an email off a Blackberry and then crying to commercial– feels as outdated as it does contrived, particular on a topic of as moderate importance as Planned Parenthood’s federal funding .”

    First of all, smarty-pants Martel, “particular” should be “particularly,” it’s one of two typos in your online column. Second of all, stating that Planned Parenthood is “of . . . moderate importance,” is simply ridiculous, no matter where you stand on the issue.

    Let me put it to you this way: Our government almost shut down over this issue of “moderate importance.” It is clearly extremely (not moderately) important to both Republicans and Democrats, albeit for different reasons. Sleazing your own opinion into a column in this small-minded manner does not change that reality.

    Now, with that said, I want to illustrate in numbers just how important this issue is on a moral basis (not monetary), for both sides involved, as well as what is actually important to our current representatives. Planned Parenthood would be allocated $75 million in funding. Tax cuts for oil companies are at $2.5 billion. $75 million is only 3% of $2.5 billion. Think about that.

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    2011 new style!

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