The past few days many have sent me a link to the following video adding, "This is very powerful." Today when yet another friend send me a link to the video, writing, "This is very powerful," I finally took a look at it.

And you know what? It really is very powerful.

Sponsor: CatholicVote.com

Popular and Influential Latino actor Eduardo Verastegui, in conjunction with Catholic News Agency, has produced an excellent video in Spanish, "Dura Realidad," i.e., "Hard Truth."

With English subtitles, Eduardo explains how abortion hurts the Hispanic population (in fact, a target) and family and how Barack Obama radically supports abortion beyond most of the public's sensibilities. Eduardo mentions Obama's opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

The unedited video also includes graphic footage of real abortions. As Eduardo states, "We all instinctively know that abortion is something intrinsically evil, and if it is something so terrible that we can't even see it, shouldn't we perhaps not tolerate it either?"

I'm not surprised YouTube pulled the unedited version. YouTube has been removing graphic abortion videos for some time. I am surprised and saddened GodTube pulled it, though. I wonder whose side GodTube thinks it is on. Who wins by not showing the reality of abortion? GodTube is not unlike the Christians in Germany during the Holocaust, trying to look the other way.

Here is the edited version of Eduardo's video still up on YouTube. View the unedited version here.

by JivinJ

First, don't forget to pray for pastors across America who are participating in the Alliance Defense Fund's Pulpit Freedom Sunday today, which I wrote about previously here and here.

This is a long-planned project by ADF for pastors in a coordinated effort on September 28, 2008, to defy the IRS's gag rule dating back to 1954 disallowing them and churches from taking political stands. At least 50 pastors across the nation are purposefully doing just that today from the pulpit, such as endorsing a political candidate. All pastors will submit transcripts and video/audiotapes of their sermons to the IRS. The hope is to invoke action by the IRS, get this into court, and overturn this 54 year old First Amendment violation. Go pastors! See ADF video on the constitutional foundation for this project here.

Moving on, the political cartoons this week continued to focus on the Wall Street bailout, so I found none on our issue. But here was one about the aforementioned by Nate Beeler at Townhall.com that made me laugh...

The new poll question is up:

Two part question: Who won the first presidential debate, and did it change your vote?

Here are the results of last week's poll question:

Aw, Paul Newman died yesterday at the age of 83.

Great quote: Asked by Playboy magazine whether he was ever tempted to step out on wife Joanne Woodward, Newman responded, according to the Associated Press, "I have steak at home, why go out for hamburger?"

Off topic question this weekend: What was your favorite Paul Newman movie and/or scene?

[Photo of Woodward, Newman and pet, courtesy of Men & Dogs
A Personal History from Bogart to Bowie, was taken in 1958, right after they married.]

Only 4 days ago Michelle Malkin called FactCheck.org's output "pure garbage."

I'm here to corroborate.

On September 24, FC posted an article supposedly fact-checking BornAliveTruth.org's Gianna ad as well as Barack Obama's retaliatory attack ad.

There was no excuse for Jessica Henig's hit piece, at times deliberately deceptive and at times woefully ignorant. We know this because we provided every bit of documentation she requested and some she didn't think to request in the days before she posted her liberal spin.

In addition, we emailed protests with the same corroboration on September 25 to FC's editor, Brooks Jackson, and he, too, lacked the objectivity or understanding to do the right thing as requested, disable the post pending further investigation.

The title of Henig's piece gives its bias away: "'Born Alive' baloney."

I wrote Jackson that Henig's article was wrong from the very first word, indicative of shoddy work to follow. Henig should have started with "An," not "A," and 3 days later it's still wrong:

But that was nothing....

UPDATE, 9/27, 12p: Statement from NRLC: "NRLC has suspended the posting of the web ad because very late on September 26, an objection was received from an attorney with the Christian Broadcasting Network, asserting that the use of a brief clip from a broadcast CBN interview, showing Barack Obama saying that NRLC was "lying," infringed upon a CBN copyright. NRLC has taken this objection under advisement and, after further research by our attorneys, we will have more to say about the matter."
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National Right to Life just posted this on YouTube:

Here is the August 16 interview wherein Barack Obama expressed indignation at the charge he voted against the identical Born Alive bill as state senator that passed overwhelmingly on the federal level...

by JivinJ

This was created by Granny Grump at RealChoice.com. Gives me shivers...

Make photo slide shows at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Last week, BornAliveTruth.org unveiled its premier ad, featuring for the first time ever an abortion survivor speaking to a national audience. In the ad, Gianna Jessen appealed to Barack Obama to reconsider his prejudice against gutsy babies like her.

Gianna was aborted in 1977 by infamous CA abortionist Edward Allred, who is named on her birth certificate as her attending physician. Gianna's 17-year-old mother aborted her at 29-1/2 weeks' gestation after belatedly deciding the time wasn't right....

Gianna was externally and internally scalded [by a saline solution] for 18 hours, but her mother's bag of waters ruptured before Gianna died, and Gianna was delivered kicking and squalling....

Were it up to Obama, Gianna would not be here....

UPDATE, 1p:The interview has been rescheduled for this Wednesday, September 24, at 10:20a EST.
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UPDATE, 10:18a: Miller is on remote in Las Vegas and has been having technical difficulties (can't hear in his headset). The show has had to go to a rerun and promises to reschedule me.
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Jill will be on the Dennis Miller show this morning at 9:20a 11:20 EST (sorry, times zones confuse me). Find local station listings here.

JivinJ and I have been writing since the end of July about Planned Parenthood's vulgar "Take care down there" website.

On that (full) front(al assault), good news from the American Life League this afternoon:

Score one for the Good Guys!!! Because of the wide-spread attention you gave our ALL Report on Planned Parenthood's DISGUSTING website www.takecaredownthere.org, the story made its way onto the main-stream media.

You can see our ALL report on it here: and here. The resulting bad publicity forced PP to remove ALL of the offensive videos!

This is the New Media in action! When you draw as much attention as you did to the nastiness of PP, the drive-by media can no longer ignore what's going on. Kudos to all of you for making this a big deal, and Glory be to God for His grace, aiding in our struggle....

Keep up the good fight. We forced the enemy to retreat, now let's press on!

This blog post by Obama-leaner Steve Waldman, founder and editor-in-chief of Beliefnet.com, may signal the end of serious attempts by Obama to woo moderate Evangelicals by portraying himself as pro-abortion reduction despite the fact he is radically pro-abortion.

By trying to straddle the issue, Obama has apparently been gaining no ground with religious folk and may have been losing more ground with Hillary supporters. Recent actions indicate Obama may be abandoning the ploy. I submit the release of the BornAliveTruth.org Gianna ad has had something to do with it....

At the Saddleback Forum, Obama boasted, accurately, about how he'd stuck a sentence into the Democratic platform encouraging support for women who wanted to take a baby to term instead of having an abortion. Pro-life progressives hailed that sentence as a great victory and sign that he might be able to win over moderate evangelicals and Catholics with this new "third way" approach.

Then, the first abortion ads put out by the Obama campaign, didn't mention abortion reduction....

From The Weekly Standard, September 29 edition, by Joseph Bottum, editor of First Things...

Do they think this is a debate they're actually going to win? Do they imagine the Catholic theologians of America - from Avery Cardinal Dulles all the way to Sister Sara Butler - are suddenly going to whack their heads and say, "My God, we never thought of that"? What impulse makes Catholic politicians try to argue theology with their own church?...

On and on it went, as stylized as a Kabuki performance - until, with his typical impatience, Denver's archbishop, Charles Chaput, summed up: "Meet the Press has become a national window on the flawed moral reasoning of some Catholic public servants." Fourteen bishops have now issued public statements on the Pelosi and Biden gaffes....

From the New York Times, September 21:

After a lawsuit from a Christian anti-abortion group, Google is allowing religious organizations to take out ads using the keyword "abortion," a rare case of the search giant admitting it was wrong.

The group, which wanted to advertise because the House of Commons was considering a bill involving abortion issues, filed a lawsuit against Google in April, saying the company was discriminating on religious grounds....

In the past, Google would not sell the "abortion" keyword to religious groups, but did sell it to other groups, including secular groups, doctors offering abortions and resource sites like Our Bodies, Ourselves....

Google reviewed its policy, and announced last Wednesday it had reached a settlement with the Christian Institute. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but Google immediately began allowing ads linked to abortion from religious groups as long as they were determined to be factual, and not graphic or emotional ads.... The change in policy applies worldwide.

I cannot even keep up with all the articles and news shows reporting on BornAliveTruth.org, Barack Obama's opposition to the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act, our Gianna ad, and Obama's anti-Gianna ad.

Here are some:

BornAliveTruth.org received the funniest hate mail ever. Had to share. I've cleaned up the misspellings...

You pro-life hypocrites better stop your ads attacking Obama....

You people and your attack ads is one the the main reasons this country is bitterly divided. Maybe they ought to change the Consitution and rename the United States of America the Divided States of America.

Since you people are attacking Obama it is your fault a lot of TV stations this fall cancelled their local newscasts this fall. Maybe someone should cancel you....

From BornAliveTruth.org:

You are invited to attend an emergency conference call this Tuesday evening, September 23, at 9:30 PM Eastern (6:30 PM Pacific) to hear abortion survivor Gianna Jessen and nurse Jill Stanek expose the shocking truth about how Barack Obama voted 4 times as an IL State Senator to deny lifesaving medical help to infants who were born alive after a failed abortion.

Jill is the nurse who discovered that these helpless babies were being left to die in the dirty utility room along with the trash, and testified before Barack Obama to tell her story.

Gianna is the amazing and beautiful woman who herself survived an abortion 31 years ago.

Barack Obama now has the audacity to deceptively deny his own voting record and is personally attacking Gianna and trying to smear her credibility!

Please register for this urgent conference call (that will also be simulcast on the web) to hear the truth directly from these two courageous women and to help Gianna defend herself from Obama's cowardly personal attacks.

Spread the word and ask all of your friends to join this vital discussion as well. Gianna urgently needs your help, and people need to know the truth about Barack Obama.

Please join us Tuesday evening at 9:30 PM Eastern, 8:30 PM Central, 7:30 PM Mountain, 6:30 PM Pacific.

Register to participate in this important event here:

Most political cartoonists this week focused on Wall Street woes.

But here's one by Gary Varvel that encapsulates what will come to be known as the Wild West "news" reporting of the 2008 presidential campaign - gossip and rumors that careless, lazy, or unscrupulous bloggers post that careless, lazy, or unscrupulous journalists broadcast...

Here's another one I like, by Chuck Asay. It is not only the presidential campaign that Sarah Palin's entrance onto the scene is impacting...

The new poll question is up:

Wiki defines a community organizer as one who rallies people living in close proximity to act in their common self-interest. Do you agree with Democrat Congressman Steve Cohen that, like Barack Obama, Jesus was a community organizer?

My previous poll question asked whether John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate changed your vote...

On September 17, ABC Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer picked up with Cindy McCain where Katie Couric left off last week.

Both were trying to get a clear answer from Cindy on her position on Roe v. Wade.

As the video shows, Cindy did not clarify her stance and went further to say abortion is not actually important in the 2008 election:

Diane Sawyer: But Mrs. McCain, do you oppose the repeal of Roe vs. Wade? Was that report correct?

Cindy McCain: ... This is not the major issue on people's minds right now.... A difference in how we stand on abortion or things like that are not what's foremost in the voters' minds right now - at all.

Do you agree or disagree with Cindy McCain?

Here they are again, first the ad BornAliveTruth.org began airing on September 16 in NM and OH, and then Barack Obama's response attack ad that began airing September 18 in NM and OH...

Obama's ad was deceptive in at least 4 ways...

UPDATE, 1:50p: Gianna forwarded me a great commentary by Mona Charen today, "Abortions do sometimes produce live births," with this excerpt:

I've received a number of letters from viewers. This one caught my eye: "I am a pediatrician. When I was a pediatric resident on a neonatal intensive care rotation, we were routinely called to resuscitate infants. In one instance I was called to pronounce a baby dead who had been born an hour earlier after a failed abortion. We were not called to resuscitate the baby immediately after the delivery as the intent was abortion. I write to attest that babies are sometimes born alive after abortion and then put aside to die."

UPDATE, 1:30p: First lie in Obama ad: attributing the Gianna ad to John McCain, rather than BornAliveTruth.org.

Second lie: "votes taken out of context"? A vote cannot be taken out of context. It's a vote. Notice this is Obama's excuse for every indictment against him.

Third lie: "Obama has always supported medical care to protect infants." FALSE. Remember this, from Obama's 2002 Senate floor speech against Born Alive?

Obama is acknowledging in that audio clip that a baby could be aborted alive but argued against calling a 2nd physician to assess and potentially provide medical care (the 1st physician being the abortionist) because it would place a "burden" on the "original decision" of the mother to abort. How much clearer can Obama's position be?

Also don't forget the Obama campaign admitted to the New York Sun on August 18 that he voted against the identical version of Born Alive as state senator that passed overwhelmingly on the federal level.

Ben Smith at Politico.com is now covering this, as is Hotair.com.
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UPDATE, 11a: Michelle Malkin's all over this in a post entitled, "Who's afraid of Gianna Jessen? Answer: Barack Obama."
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Yesterday Barack Obama quietly began airing an ad in NM and OH, where BornAliveTruth.org began airing its Gianna ad on Tuesday.

Obama has been drawn out.

Here it is...

BornAliveTruth.org is getting fabulous press, as you can tell by all the news I've posted. Monday's Associated Press story ended up in over 3,000 worldwide news outlets. Our YouTube video of the Gianna ad has been viewed almost 90,000 times, and at least 6 others have posted the ad, so a total of about 130,000 have viewed it. 49 blogs and websites are linking to BornAliveTruth.org.

Here's yesterday's Washington Times piece...

Yesterday the New York Times covered BornAliveTruth.org for the 2nd day in a row, this time on its blog:

Battles over abortion rights can often seem Orwellian, but never more so than in the competition for the Catholic vote in this presidential election....

The traditional movement seeking to end abortion rights is not standing down either. A group called BornAliveTruth.org is spending more than $350,000 to run a commercial in OH and NM featuring an abortion survivor and accusing Mr. Obama of voting against a measure to protect the lives of fetuses that somehow live through the procedure. (The Obama campaign disputes the characterization of the vote, which took place in the IL legislature.)

Yes, we must always make sure to include Obama's disproven disclaimer.

And I'm not sure what "Orwellian" means in the context of that first sentence. Perhaps someone can explain.

In the article below, CNN posted a still graphic from the BornAliveTruth.org ad with the web address clearly notable, so I'm pretty sure CNN knew the link to get information.

If it had gone to the BAT site, it would have found that I, as BAT's executive director, have a direct connection to Obama and the Born Alive issue.

Instead CNN got its info on me from the liberal blogs. As the Discriminations blogger wrote:

Either because of sloppiness or bias, CNN neglected to mention that Stanek is the former nurse [who testified] before Congress [which] .... passed, with virtually no dissent (it passed the Senate 98-0), even from committed pro-choice legislators, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. It was an identical Illinois version of that act that Obama blocked, claiming that it would have tended to undermine Roe v. Wade.

But I suppose you could say, if you're CNN, that Stanek "has made controversial statements in the past." And she continues to make them.

Click to enlarge...

My goodness, the news cycle runs fast. I heard just a couple hours ago that Drudge had posted about BornAliveTruth.org, and by the time I got to it, it was already moved to page 2. But, hey, I'll take it. Click to enlarge:

Last night Gianna Jessen was interviewed on Hannity and Colmes and did a FABULOUS job. Alan's arguments were pathetic.

UPDATE, 4:40p: Based on evidence presented in this post, Martin has removed "self-proclaimed" and Tapper has posted an addendum stating, "UPDATE: Jessen has posted medical records on her Web site to support her story," with a link to this website.

Kudos to both for their willingness to reanalyze their stories when presented with new information.
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Today Politico's Jonathan Martin called Gianna Jessen a "self-proclaimed abortion-survivor," and ABC's Jake Tapper said Gianna "claims" to have survived an abortion.

To be fair, speculation is warranted. So in answer to that, here are documents proving Gianna is indeed an abortion survivor. The first is Gianna's birth medical record, indicating she was "Born during Saline abortion"...

Next is Gianna's birth certificate, listing infamous abortionist "Edward C. Allred, M.D.," as the physician who delivered her. Allred is the owner of the largest group of independent abortion mills in the U.S. (click to enlarge)...

On the Politico, this morning:

By Time/CNN's Mark Halperin on The Page this morning:

And the ABC News Jake Tapper blog this morning also included the YouTube video of the Gianna ad...

The following New York Times story on 527s included an image of our BornAliveTruth.org ad as its sample of conservative sponsored issues advocacy:

After largely staying on the sidelines, the types of independent groups that so affected the 2004 presidential campaign are flooding back as players in the final sprint to the election this fall, financing provocative messages on television, in mailboxes and through the Internet....

Yesterday friend Fran at IllinoisReview.com found this blast from the past, a photo taken the day of the federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act bill signing on August 5, 2002...

That's me on the left, then President Bush and Gianna, of course.

Go to BornAliveTruth.org for more info and to donate!

Gianna just did fabulously on Hannity and Colmes. Will post interview asap.

UPDATE, 6p: We're hearing from the media Obama's people are telling them they have no comment on the Gianna ad, that Obama didn't vote for Born Alive because it would undermine Roe. Even if that were true, which it is not, am I hearing Obama admit he supports infanticide if it would otherwise interfere with legalized abortion?
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UPDATE,5:30p: New Associated Press story out on BornAliveTruth.org...

Read Charles' Krauthammer's column, "Obama's race to lose - and he just might," making a point I mentioned the other day: Part of Barack Obama's problem now is simply gravity: shooting stars must eventually fall, his in unfortunate conjuction with a new star rising.

Then there's the problem of the non-Biden factor, as illustrated by Gary Varvel...

... mostly due to the fact he's not Hillary.

Which brings me to a Monday question. I usually reserve this segment for weekends, but I'm going to be busy this morning working on a Big Announcement - watch for it this afternoon - and won't be posting again 'til later.

So here's something to discuss in the meanwhile. There was chatter at the Vote Values Summit that Obama indeed might switch out Biden for Hillary.

How would people receive this decision? How do you think it would impact the election?

by John Cole at Townhall.com...

UPDATE, 9/14, 5:30a: Yesterday afternoon I participated in an otherwise all boys bloggers panel (and bragged on my moderators!).

Left to right: Jill; Kevin McCullough of Musclehead Revolution; Ed Morrisey of Hot Air; Ross Douthat of The Atlantic; and Joe Carter of Liberty Wire and The Evangelical Outpost...

Last night Daena and I attended a gala honoring Christian stalwart and Prison Fellowship Ministries founder Chuck Colson, where I met Bill Bennett, one of the speakers honoring him....

by JivinJ

Here is ABC's Charlie Gibson's interview with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin last night, in 4 parts.

See parts 2, 3, and 4 on page 2...

Comparing Sarah Palin's candidacy to "like a really bad Disney movie," actor Matt Damon also questioned her stability yesterday: "I need to know if she really think that dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. I want to know that, I really do. Because she's gonna have the nuclear codes."

Matt is dissing every person who believes in Creationism. He obviously supports evolution, backed by mainstream science.

Speaking of, I myself am concerned about a man having the nuclear codes who doesn't know who is human and who is not. Obama says he is confused about basic scientific fact that unique individual humans with unique DNA are created at the fertilization of human egg and human sperm. That's breathtakingly ignorant, kind of like Jason Bourne, who didn't know who he was either.

Damon also propagated the known lie, wondering "if she banned books or tried to ban books. I mean - you know, we can't - we can't have that."

Matt needs to do a little less blathering and a little more reading himself. As far as I know Palin hasn't attempted to ban the Internet yet, although now that I've typed that a liberal blogger is certain to cut and paste it into the latest rumor. At any rate, Matt might try reading FactCheck.org, unless he like Obama would prefer to stay liberal and ignorant.

BTW, Palin's response to Damon? Per her spokeswoman, Maria Comella:

It's not surprising that the Barack Obama and his celebrity supporters continue to tear down Governor Palin with little more than blatant name-calling," she said. "It's clear they're threatened by a candidate who actually has a record of achieving reform and change, while Barack Obama just talks about it.

[HT: Warren Throckmorton],

Barack Obama and the Democrat Party's decision to hold the Democrat convention before the Republican convention is a significant reason why he is losing momentum.

This meant Obama had to announce his VP before McCain.

If Obama could conduct one do-over, I'd bet it would be to pick Hillary Clinton as his running mate. He got cocky about his poll numbers and also allowed his pride get in the way of not wanting to be overshadowed in the White House.

Yesterday, Obama's loose-lipped sidekick, Joe Biden, said as much:

The tenuous relationship between Hillary women and Obama snapped when they were given a female alternative, no matter what her politics are we now see.

Obama's other problem with big mo is human nature. We build people up just to knock them off the pedestal. Obama had been on his for 19 long months. Just as people decided they were growing tired of him after the Berlin experience, along came a fresh face to speed the process.

On ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos this past Sunday, Barack Obama tried to undo the damage he inflicted on himself at the Aug. 16 Saddleback Showdown with his now infamous "above my pay grade" response to Rick Warren's question, "At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?"

But Obama hadn't learned. He tried once again to redirect the clearly constitutionally based question into something esoteric and religious, and therefore unsolvable:

Obama: "I mean, what I intended to say is that, as a Christian, I have a lot of humility about understanding when does the soul enter into..."

But Warren clearly had not asked, "When does a baby get a soul?"...

And what did Obama mean by....

Continue reading my column, "Obama digs deeper on 'pay grade' gaffe," on WorldNetDaily.com.

Kevin Cosgrove's 911 call...

Home video from nearby highrise...

For the 2nd consecutive election cycle, SD will vote on an abortion ban this November.

Last time pro-aborts successfully fought the ban because it had no exceptions. This time it has a rape/incest exception and - surprise - pro-aborts have found new reasons to fight the ban. According to SupportSouthDakota.com:

In addition to launching a massive multi-million-dollar media campaign -- filled with lies and misinformation -- Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry have brought in hired-gun political consultants who are using every trick in the book to try and kill this lifesaving law.

The sad thing is that Planned Parenthood's scheme seems to be working so far.

Tomorrow night at 9p EST there will be a massive nationwide fundraising teleconference. On the call with be SD ban organizer Leslie Unruh as well as 40 Days for Life David Bereit and others. Please go to SupportSouthDakota.com to register for the call.

by JivinJ

One of our new PUMA friends has posted a disturbing photo of Sarah Palin, one of many disturbing finds by the only army Barack Obama is not repulsed by, his army of lawyers.

Wrote CountUsOut.com, today:

Reports from a crack team of reporters, lawyers, researchers, and forensic analysts sent by the Barack Obama campaign to Alaska to properly vet little known vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin filtered in late Tuesday. They paint a chilling portrait of a disturbed woman who is not ready to assume the Presidency should John McCain be run over by a pie wagon or bored to death by Keith Olbermann...

Obama has found a way to get some support back...

[HT: commenter Ezek13:19]

And here we have a website promoting the abortion of Bristol Palin's baby, FreeBristolPalin.com (click to enlarge)...

[HT: commenter Milehimama]

This helps. From the female leader and spokeswoman of the SC Democrat Party? From Politico...

According to Fox, the fowl Fowler is now not returning calls.

Here is Barack Obama's incredulous, sarcastic response to the entire world - including his own audience of friendlies yesterday - who immediately connected his "lipstick on a pig" comment to Sarah Palin's best line in her veep acceptance speech, "What is the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick."

Again, by denying the undeniable, Obama only digs his hole deeper.

I wrote the other day that liberals, pollsters, and MSM repeatedly have tried to maintain that abortion ranks low on the list of American priorities when choosing candidates for political office.

This has always been about minimizing the pro-life effort. "No one cares. Go away."

Yet, abortion has taken center stage in this election....

The McCain campaign quickly posted an ad punishing Barack Obama for his "lipstick on a pig" slur against Sarah Palin yesterday, which Obama just incredibly, arrogantly, and offensively denied.

The press is all over this one. Over 3,500 news stories on it this morning.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air said it better than I could have this morning...

Here's a fun YouTube video contrasting Barack Obama's claim that Sarah Palin has "zero experience" with his own...

[HT: reader David J.]

I'm certainly not one to give Barack Obama and Joe Biden
advice. If they think slinging slurs at Sarah Palin is going to get them votes, they can have at it.

Clearly Palin has Obama so rattled he's doffing his Mr. Nice Guy facade. Obama today, like NARAL a few days ago, referred back to Palin's hockey mom-bulldog-lipstick comment, insinuating Palin is a pig:

Tonight on Larry King will be a discussion of the women's vote now that Sarah Palin is in the race.

Featured will be pro-lifers MN Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Bush advisor Karen Hughes, and pro-aborts Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards and Huffington Post editor Hilary Rosen.

The fear in naming Joe Biden as Barack Obama's running mate was his notoriously big mouth.

Today the first big cringing oh-no came.

Reports CBS:

John McCain's campaign expressed outrage over comments made by Joe Biden, who used disabled children as an example to criticize Republicans who do not support stem cell research.

McCain spokesman Ben Porritt took the attack as being directed at GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who has a child with Down syndrome.

"Barack Obama's running mate sunk to a new low today launching an offensive debate over who cares more about special needs children," wrote Porritt in a statement. "Playing politics with this issue is disturbing and indicative of a desperate campaign."

Biden made the comment at a town hall style meeting in Columbia, MO, today, saying, "I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy, because there's joy to it as well, the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect. Well guess what folks? If you care about it, why don't you support stem cell research?"...

October 21 will mark the 4th annual Pro-Life Day of Solidarity, sponsored by StandTrue.com.

On that day students ranging from grade school to college all over the world will silently protest abortion by wearing red duct tape, a red arm band, and/or a pro-life t-shirt . There are also flyers to download and distribute to explain the silence.

Register now and start getting friends on board. So far 1,708 schools are participating.

If a school forbids the activity, Pro-Life Day of Solidarity has legal help available.

by JivinJ

Lots of juicy tidbits in this New York Times article today - after the eye-rolling use of the word "bold" in the 1st paragraph. Only the NYT would consider it "bold" to front 2 liberal commentators as objective news reporters:

MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel's coverage of the election....

That experiment appears to be over.

After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that... David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night...

The change... is a direct result of tensions associated with the channel's perceived shift to the political left....

Polls out today...

USA Today:" McCain leads... Obama by 50%-46% among registered voters, the Republican's biggest advantage since January and a turnaround from the USA Today poll poll taken just before the convention opened in St. Paul. Then, he lagged by 7%...."

Gallup: "... McCain has overtaken... Obama... and has his highest level of support... since early May. McCain leads Obama 48% to 45% among registered voters.... Obama peaked at a 5-point convention bounce... last Tuesday. He was ahead 49% to 43% ... before the Republican convention. He then soared to 50% for the first time of the election... while McCain fell to 42%."...

UPDATE, 11:50a: The New York Times has a story today on Biden's attempted parse on the abortion issue [HT: moderator Chris]:

... Biden's views... came at a time when his party is confronted with a new face: Gov. Sarah Palin... whose anti-abortion stance and decision to give birth just 5 months ago to a baby with Down syndrome have revved up the conservative base of her party.

In the interview Sunday, Mr. Biden tried to walk the line between the staunch abortion-rights advocates in his party and his own religious beliefs.

IMO, that line is becoming increasingly difficult to traverse.
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For a topic no one cares about according to MSM, pollsters, and liberals, the abortion issue sure is getting a lot of coverage. I love it. Think about who doesn't want to talk about such things as when life begins: only pro-aborts.

Yesterday on NBC's Meet the Press, Tom Brokaw asked puffy-eyed Joe Biden (not enough sleep or too much to drink - or both?) how he might instruct self-professed ignorant Barack Obama on when life begins....

On ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos yesterday, Barack Obama tried to backpeddle on his now infamous "above my pay grade" response to Rick Warren's question, "At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?"...

Following is a very strange interview CBS's Katie Couric conducted with Cindy McCain on September 3.

McCain made all these contradictory points in the interview...

This week liberal bloggers, feminists, and MSM made fools of themselves with their hypocritical and misogynist digs at Sarah and Bristol Palin. Conservative political cartoonists picked up on them. See more on page 2, all all courtesy of Townhall.com, on page 2. Vote for your favorite.

by John Cole...

by Chip Bok...

I think I've been wrong about Rick Warren and may owe him an apology.

I accused Warren beforehand of soft-balling questions to presidential candidates at the Saddleback forum.

But he did not. His "at what point does a baby get human rights" query to Barack Obama was simple yet expertly phrased and elicited an answer that may have cost Obama the election.

I've also accused Warren of being one of those whom we've been told is a new breed of evangelical -- moving the abortion battle down their list of priorities in lieu of sexier wars to wage, like AIDs in Africa.

It appears I was duped by liberals and MSM. In this week's World magazine...

The new poll question is up:

Has the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain's VP changed your vote?

Last week I asked what was your take on McCain's pick of Palin...

Before I get to the story I'm posting on, here's a verrry interesting post showing how the New York Times edited a story on Sarah Palin's acceptance speech by removing the word "electrifying", to describe the speech, as well as to describe Obama pimping Hillary and other women to campaign for him in her wake.

And now a story in today's Wall Street Journal:

The moderate evangelical vote is slipping away from Barack Obama.

All year, Sen. Obama has worked hard to win evangelical voters.... At stake are about six million voters - moderate evangelicals who voted for George Bush last time but were intrigued by Sen. Obama....

Several things have battered Sen. Obama's standing with moderate evangelicals:

1) His poor performance at the Saddleback candidates forum, especially (or perhaps entirely) his comment about it being "above my pay grade" to know when life begins....

How many times will Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and EMILY's List get MSM to fall for the same repackaged and recycled press release? Silly me, I forgot MSM and the 3 hags are in cahoots. The Hill breathlessly reported today:

Three major advocates of abortion rights are planning to spend nearly $30 million to defeat John McCain's run for president, citing his new running mate as the core reason.

NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood and EMILY's List have Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) in their crosshairs....

NARAL Pro-Choice America plans to raise and spend $10 million....

Planned Parenthood... plans to spend $10 million....

Ramona Oliver, communications director for EMILY's List... could not divulge the program's total cost but noted that the group spent between $7 million and $8 million in the last election cycle.

Now let's go back in time to September 2007 and the duped or duplicitous The Hill again...

[HT: for NYT story, reader Quinn; for WSJ story, Fran from IL Review]

I've been meaning to post this for a few days, very touching. By Rich Lowry of National Review Online, August 31:

I found the Palin event Friday incredibly moving. Partly because of Trig.

The sentimentalist in me would be willing to see anyone who is loving and unselfish enough to welcome a Down kid into their family elevated to high office.

When I was thinking of Trig, I was reminded of an encounter I had a couple of weeks ago on the Delta Shuttle from Washington to New York. It was a mostly empty plane, but I went all the back to the very emptiest part of the plane to spread out and enjoy the quiet. And there was a man sitting in the very back row who immediately piped up, "Hi. I'm Ian. Would you like to sit next to me?"

He was a guy with Down Syndrome, maybe in his twenties. I declined the offer, but we struck up a conversation. He was going to New York for a family celebration, including for his birthday. I told him I had a birthday coming up too and he lit up and came over to vigorously shake my hand in congratulations - more delighted by my birthday than his own....

Lest you think this blog's profile in the Washington Post today might go to my head, never fear, there will always be those ready to humble me. From today's Birth Pangs blog, referring to my "Lipstick on a pig" post yesterday...

The Washington Post is profiling bloggers who attended the Democrat and Republican National Conventions. Am pleased today it chose this blog (click to enlarge)...

Sigh... I have good friends and respected pro-life colleagues who are members of American Right to Life. They did such a good job establishing credibility with their Sheets of Shame huge pro-life sign at the Denver National Convention, and then they had to do this. It's as if they can't handle respect.

From the Associated Press, September 4:

Eight people have been escorted by police from the lobby of Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs after showing up to protest an endorsement by the group's founder.

About a dozen protesters from American Right to Life Action arrived at Focus around 7:45 a.m. Thursday. Two hours later, 8 of the protesters went inside the building and refused to leave.

Officers escorted them out a short time later.

The ARLA says Focus founder Dr. James Dobson violated a pledge to God to never back a candidate who supports abortion. Dobson recently said on his radio show that he would "pull the lever for John McCain" if the election were held today.

The group charges McCain voted to approve abortion funding for pregnancies stemming from rape or incest.

ARTL is talking about McCain's vote on the Hyde Amendment....

Just got this from NARAL, clearly a sexist dig...

I was surprised and offended when the other day a Wall Street Journal reporter asked me if Sarah Palin was fit for the job of VP because she has 5 kids. This is 2008. I thought degrading questions like that began dying out 40 years ago. The reporter said she was responding to conservative concerns, which made me sad.

But I quickly found it is the supposedly feminist Left that is driving such talk. Consider this comment from Sally Quinn on CBS's The Early Show yesterday (see YouTube video here)...

I now know what Barack Obama was thinking when he said he wouldn't want his daughters "punished with a baby" if they "ma[d]e a mistake" and had premarital sex.

How pathetic that Obama obviously had his own tribe, liberals, in mind, who sure know how to mete out punishment with vicious aplomb at such times.

Thanks to a Daily Kos blogger, who falsely accused Sarah Palin of faking her pregnancy with now 4-month-old son Trig to cover for his real mother, her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, the Palin family was forced to
announce Sept. 1 that unmarried Bristol is 5 months pregnant.

Besides the fact the Daily Kos blogger had obviously been watching too many soap operas, he flouted the supposed rule that candidates' children are off limits, even posting close-ups of Bristol's belly. After being up 3 days, the post was only removed thanks to more exciting Bristol fare....

Simply, the left wants to make sure any girl in a similar situation aborts. AlterNet already has its long knives out, counting the days until Palin is off McCain's ticket and questioning his judgment in selecting her....

Continue reading my column, "Obama vs. Palin on value of babies," on WorldNetDaily.com.

I've been doing a lot of radio interviews the last couple of weeks about Barack Obama's opposition to Born Alive, sometimes four a day.

(To the right is a photo of Mancow and me when I interviewed in his studio Tuesday.)

Below is a clip from C-SPAN September 2 where a caller described hearing me on the radio (he got the facts mostly right) and asked MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty why the GOP isn't making a bigger deal if it is indeed true that Barack Obama voted against a bill to stop abortion survivors from being left to die....

I heard commotion from the audience during this section of Sarah's speech but didn't know why until viewing this clip...

[HT: John Jansen of Pro-Life Action League; Dean T.]

Social conservatism has been much ballyhooed the past year. In fact, we were deflated after a simultaneous Republican-controlled House, Senate and Oval Office didn't do more to stop abortion and then a presidential candidate was picked with whom we had issues.

"I am absolutely convinced that culture wars are so '90s," said Barack Obama during his July 2007 speech at a Planned Parenthood Action Fund event. ""Their days are growing dark.... We're tired of arguing about the same old stuff."

Of course Obama wanted abortion to be yesterday's news. He only looks like a monster when he argues for partial birth abortion and against protecting abortion survivors.

MSM, also pro-abortion, wanted the topic of abortion to go away, too, for the same reason (plus squashing us ensured an Obama win). If you support abortion, you must support all of it or your arguments fall apart, and MSM didn't like being forced to discuss its far reaches.

MSM did a fair job looking the other way the past few weeks despite the revelation that Obama misrepresented his vote against identical legislation in IL to declare even abortion survivors as persons that passed overwhelmingly on the national level.

But John McCain's surprising nomination of Sarah Palin as his running-mate has done a couple of things. It has cemented discussion of abortion as a top story, and it has shown everyone the value of social conservatives and perhaps even reminded us kicked dogs of same....

Last night during his Republican National Convention speech, Fred Thompson skewered Barack Obama for his opposition to IL's Born Alive Infants Protection Act:

We don't need a president who thinks protecting the unborn or the newborn baby is above his pay grade.

Afterward, MSNBC's Chris Matthews engaged in a lengthy discussion on that point with Republican NM Congresswoman Heather Wilson.

Keith Olbermann couldn't help but jump in to carry water for Obama by misstating that Obama opposed Born Alive because there was already a law in place, which was false. Here's the video:

Read reasons why Olbermann's rationale of Obama's vote this was flat out false on page 2.

In fact, MSNBC reporters slanted their GOP abortion coverage last night, obsessing about the pro-life platform and politicians when last week at the Democrat Convention they totally ignored the radical abortion positions of the party and politicians, most notably Obama, who supports infanticide if it would otherwise interfere with abortion. From the Media Research Center's report...

Michael Barone, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, had the following op ed published in several news outlets, including the Boston Herald, August 31:

Barack Obama... has 3 major vulnerabilities here as I see it. One is his 20-year relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright....

Another problem is Obama's relationship with the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist bomber William Ayers....

Finally, there is Obama's 2003 vote against a bill, "virtually identical" as the Obama campaign admits, to one that passed the U.S. Senate 98-0, banning the killing of fetuses who have survived abortions....

UPDATE, 7:45p: Hear the ad.

Obama's got a lot of nerve, but what else can he do? He's attempting to pull himself out of defensive mode on abortion by going on the offense. From Politico, September 2:

Barack Obama has launched a broadside against John McCain's opposition to abortion rights and moved one of the most divisive issues in modern American politics to the airwaves on a large scale for the first time in this presidential campaign.

Obama's new radio ad, airing widely in at least 7 swing states, tells voters McCain "will make abortion illegal." It's airing as McCain courts female voters with the addition of the staunchly anti-abortion governor of AK, Sarah Palin, to his ticket.

Democrats had, until now, sought to appeal to women primarily on economic issues such as health care and workplace discrimination; abortion rights were hardly mentioned at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last week....

Kudos to Green, OH, pro-lifers for making life (pardon the pun) so unbearable for all associated with G&H Healthcare, a "nonsurgical abortion provider" according to Ohio.com, i.e., an RU-486 medical abortion mill, that it is leaving town.

The trouble began earlier this summer when G&H made the mistake of setting up its chop-shop in an abortion-unfriendly city. Pro-lifers immediately started picketing the location and protesting to whomever would listen.

At a July 10 Green City Council meeting, Mayor Dick Norton announced, according to Akron Ohio News, that while the city was legally helpless to oust the human grist mill...

I now know what Barack Obama was thinking when he said he wouldn't want his daughters "punished with a baby" if they "ma[d]e a mistake" and had premarital sex.

How sad that he surely had his own tribe, liberals, in mind, who sure know how to mete punishment with vicious aplomb in such case.

Thanks to a soap opera script on Daily Kos that Sarah Palin faked her pregnancy with now four-month-old son Trig to cover for his real mother, her 17-year-old daughter Bristol, the Palin family was forced to announce today that unmarried Bristol is five months pregnant.

The announcement was wonderful, in sharp contrast to Obama's thought of his own grandchild who might be conceived in a similar situation...

Mancow Muller is a shock jock with a twist: he's a conservative.

Tomorrow Mancow will interview me about Obama and Born Alive in his Chicago studio at 9a CST.

Mancow is syndicated around the country. Find a station near you here.

Daughter Daena flew in from DC for the weekend. She and both daughters-in-law, Bernadine and Lisa, celebrate birthdays between September 1-5, so we will behold one brightly lit birthday cake this afternoon at a family party.

I mentioned before Daena is a presidential writer. She wrote the President's Labor Day message this year. Bearing in mind Daena's dad is an engineer and her mom a nurse makes a portion of this message a personal shout out to her parents, which was sweet:

Presidential Message, Labor Day 2008

I send greetings to all Americans celebrating Labor Day 2008...

Posted at Free Republic (click to enlarge):

[HT: friend Leslie]

The new poll question is up:

What's your take on McCain's pick of Palin as his running mate?

Last week I asked who would be your choice as McCain's veep.

Garnering only 11% of the vote, Sarah Palin was a sleeper...