Join #Gosnell TweetFest to break the media blackout
The media is suddenly starting to pay attention to mass murderer Kermit Gosnell, thanks in part to a “TweetFest” currently underway until midnight to “break the media blackout,” as is posted on the Facebook event page launched by Andy Moore, Bryan Kemper, and Troy Newman.
Kudos, too, to pro-life Democrat Kirsten Powers, who also helped light a fire under her liberal friends in the media with her USA Today post.
Per CNN’s Anderson Cooper, within the hour (time stamp is way off)…
Reading the grand jury report on the #Gosnell case. Where was the state oversight of this house of horrors? Details tonight on @ac360 8p/10p
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) April 12, 2013
Also read a good column by Dave Weigel at Slate.
Then there’s pro-abort Washington Post reporter Sarah Kliff, who tweeted this…
@mzhemingway Hi Molly – I cover policy for the Washington Post, not local crime, hence why I wrote about all the policy issues you mention.
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) April 11, 2013
As if the Dahmer, Gacy, and Speck stories were all “local”? And is if there is no possible policy hook, such as, say, clinic regulations?
Join in on Twitter, being sure to use the hashtag #Gosnell. Am reading #Gosnell is currently trending #6 in U.S. right now.
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.
Great job everyone!!
”Am reading #Gosnell is currently trending #6 in U.S. right now.”
Excellent, this alone should exponentially increase the number of people who’ve at least heard of him.
I’m curious to know how people’s tweets and FB posts are affecting them. I saw on a social media site today that pro-abortion posters are commenting that, since the mainstream media isn’t reporting it, then posts are just those pesky pro-lifers trying to make abortion look bad. See, they say, how it’s only on those extreme pro-lifer websites that you’re linking to for the story? That proves this isn’t a serious story and it’s just propoganda to try and make abortion look bad.
I just linked on Facebook to a great piece written today and posted on The Daily Beast. It’s now the first news story on their scrolling front page! This is a story that needs to get out there–especially in light of the political backlash every time a state tries to enact strict abortion clinic regulation. Here’s the link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/12/why-the-mainstream-media-is-not-covering-the-gosnell-abortion-trial.html
“I’m curious to know how people’s tweets and FB posts are affecting them. I saw on a social media site today that pro-abortion posters are commenting that, since the mainstream media isn’t reporting it, then posts are just those pesky pro-lifers trying to make abortion look bad. See, they say, how it’s only on those extreme pro-lifer websites that you’re linking to for the story? That proves this isn’t a serious story and it’s just propoganda to try and make abortion look bad.”
Yeah… they mad. Go on Twitter and watch them argue with pro-lifers Their more disgusting opinions are coming out of the woodwork now. If you argue with them they tell you marital rape doesn’t exist, children who have a rapist parents are intrinsically defective, and that pro-lifers don’t care about *real* children being abused.
Eek. I too have failed. I asked my DH this morning if he knew who Gosnell was. He didn’t. :(
Situation rectified.
“they tell you marital rape doesn’t exist”
Huh? How does this even come up.
Don’t ask, JDC. Don’t ask. I thought I was immune to being astonished at how low some people go but these guys are upping the ante for me!
“Don’t ask, JDC. Don’t ask.”
Yeah, I should know better than that by now.
Thank you Andy, Jill and Bryan and company. It is so good to think that we can make a difference through the alternative media. Instead of just being frustrated we did something.
It’s bad, JDC. Really bad.
Jack came in on the tail-end of it, but…it’s one of the more gruesome battles I’ve waged in the Twittersphere.
Time for a palette cleanser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w
“Time for a palette cleanser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w“
Thanks for that, it was very funny. :)
“That proves this isn’t a serious story and it’s just propoganda to try and make abortion look bad.”
ninek,
The thing that makes speaking out against killing babies so easy to do and makes us so tenacious in our fight to stop it is that it requires ZERO propoganda. The truth about the people who kill babies and support abortion is so gruesome that I challenge any pro-abort (thinking joan and reality) to exercise their liberal minds and share with me anything they deem to be more insidious and intrinsically evil then the ‘reality’ (intended there oh deluded one) of killing babies.
Don’t forget to flood the National Abortion Federation @NatAbortionFed with reminders that one of their clinics gave Gosnell at least 6 of his patients including the mother of Baby Boy A. Then they deny culpability? I’m not buying it.
My generic tweet to news organizations:
Choice groups deny #gosnell culpability but @NatAbortionFed gave him at least 6 pts including mom of Baby Boy A. *cue crickets*
Generic tweet to pro abortion groups:
@NatAbortionFed collected $$ gave #gosnell at least 6 pts including mom of Baby Boy A. Still awaiting outrage. *crickets*
Sarah Kliff: “Hi Molly – I cover policy for the Washington Post, not local crime, hence why I wrote about all the policy issues you mention.”
OK. Wouldn’t want you to make any waves. You could be a closet pro-lifer for all I know, but you response is so lame. It would have been better if you remained silently anonymous.
Reminds of the girly man whose girfl friend was being gang raped and the thugs drew a circle in the ground and told him if stepped out of it they would rape him too.
When the brutes were done with his gal and fled the scene he boasted meekly that he showed them what he was made of. He stepped out of the circle 3 times.
Show us what you’re made of Sarah. Come on and step out of the self-imposed circle of silence. Raise some hell with your editors.
Just curious Ken, what would you expect the dude to do in that situation? Get raped and killed and still not be able to save his gf from anything?
I started another tag, #NAFcomplicity, to attack the idea that Gosnell was some sort of “outlier.” NAF collected fees for him and provided him with patients. That puts him smack dab in the heart of the prochoice supposed “safety zone.”
In fact, on the anniversary of all NAF deaths I’ll tweet with the #NAFcomplicity tag. Let’s get rid of the idea that quackery is this business outside the mainstream of “responsible abortion care.”
“If you argue with them they tell you marital rape doesn’t exist, children who have a rapist parents are intrinsically defective, and that pro-lifers don’t care about *real* children being abused.”
Rule #1 of supporting abortion: talk about anything but abortion.
Jack, the problem is that this guy was so petty and self-indulged that he saw it as ‘win’ because he disobeyed the gang-bangers by stepping outside of the circle three times even though it did nothing to stop the gang rape of his gf.
What would ken expect the dude to do? Not boast.
Truth my guess would be either he’s a dumba**, or he reacted badly to the social pressure that would have condemned him anyway for doing anything less than getting himself killed to protect her.
“Just curious Ken, what would you expect the dude to do in that situation? Get raped and killed and still not be able to save his gf from anything?”
JB,
It was a joke to illustrate a point about submitting to arbitrary and capricious boundaries and when it might be appropriate to color outside the lines.
But to your question.
That would be a decision best left up to the individual who is faced with the situation and has access to all the relevant facts: What are the girly man’s skill sets, what tools does he have at hand, how many rapists is he dealing with, would it be preferrable to live with doing nothing or to risk death/die trying do something.
My best case scenario is that he would kill everyone of the bastards with his bare hands at the very threat of rape.
I believe that would meet the conditions of ‘fearing for your life’ and ‘standing your ground’.
If he and/or his girl friend were packing heat, then experience has repeatedly demonstrated that just brandishing a firearm would send the cowards scurrying home to their mommies.
But I prefer the outcome of the first scenario and it doesn’t really matter to me what the girly mans’ weapon of choice is.
It’s interesting that you did not consider the ‘girlfriends’ preference.
I have a wife and four daughters and a grand-daughter and I thought of them while I was responding to your question.
Holy Spirit also made me think of Jesus and the Father.
We need to keep telling them (Pro-aborts) to stop saying “I’m pro-choice”. No, if you’re FOR abortion, you’re Pro-ABORTION. Stop using euphemisms because you think it sounds more “acceptable”. You’re for abortion, yet you can’t even use the word??
Say that do the poor babies you slaughtered doc, it’s a little too late for them.
Want proof that the Media is in on the cover-up? Those for Abortion are Pro-Choice. Those who are Pro-Life are now called Anti-Abortion.
Which sounds nicer?