NYT profiles AUL’s “pleasantly dangerous” CEO, Charmaine Yoest
Though she has helped usher in hard-hitting changes in women’s health care, Yoest is especially good at sounding reasonable rather than extreme. She never deviates from her talking points, never raises her voice and never forgets to smile.
~ New York Times reporter Emily Bazelon, in a profile of AUL CEO Charmaine Yoest, November 2
Jezebel’s Katie J. M. Baker’s response, in her piece, “Meet Charmaine Yoest, the pleasantly dngerous anti-choice leader”:
Her sticky-sweet refusal to talk about anything she doesn’t want to talk about reminds me of the day I spent with Lila Rose in D.C., the up-and-coming anti-choice activist who told me that Yoest was one of her role models. Bazelon describes Yoest almost exactly how I described Lila….
My trip to D.C… was one of my most frustrating reporting experiences because I couldn’t get Lila to deviate from her talking points for even half a second, rendering most of my notes useless….
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Kind of blows the stereotype of “shrill, shreiking, ignorant, distractable buffoon” out of the water, doesn’t she?
… deviate from her talking points for even half a second, rendering most of my notes useless….
Gee… thanks for at least admitting your true reporting style. Instead of staying on topic, you would rather try to trick them with gotcha questions.
It is hard to take the author seriously when she writes nonsense numbers 1387417349179571 as proof that scores of doctors and scientists have refuted that abortion causes breast cancer. I thought there were several studies that showed abortion can increase your risk?
I mean, having been pregnant…it just seems common sense to me that pregnancy affects your boobs! And if you suddenly stop the pregnancy unnaturally (and early on when your boobs are changing the most) then you are setting yourself up for some nasty issues with said boobs. Cancer doesn’t seem like a stretch.
And how does contraception help women? WHO says it is as dangerous as radiation and cigarettes! Do these pro-aborts EVER address this? That they want women to ingest a known carcinogen?
“her sticky-sweet refusal to talk about anything she doesn’t want to talk about…”
They (pro-aborts) just can’t STAND that we (pro-lifers) don’t conduct ourselves like the foaming-at-the-mouth raving lunatics they like to make us out to be!
They just have to throw in the snide, catty, b**chy remarks about pro-life women, because WE know how to behave like LADIES.
Sad commentary on THEIR side.
That’s the way to go — kill ’em with kindness!
So, basically the reporters are mad they cannot goad Ms. Yoest into a reaction.
Exactly, Joanne. Shows just how immature and childish they really are.