Ingraham puts crosshairs on Planned Parenthood: What are these people at Fox thinking?
By David Neiwert Monday Jul 13, 2009 10:30am
When Laura Ingraham filled in for Bill O'Reilly on Friday's night's O'Reilly Factor, she ran a segment on abortion that was ostensibly an "investigation" into Planned Parenthood. It featured a logo that placed a red set of crosshairs -- the kind you find on a rifle scope -- over PP's logo.
I'd just like to ask one question:
What the hell were these people thinking?
Now, presumably, Ingraham herself did not order up this graphic, or if she did, it at least went through the hands of the show's regular producers and overseers. These are the same people who just went through a well-deserved round of approbation for their role -- in the form of those 28 references to Dr. George Tiller as a "baby killer" -- in the murder of Tiller by an anti-abortion fanatic.
And now they're running a graphic suggestive of what Ann Coulter calls "a procedure with a rifle" -- something, in fact, that Coulter has actually encouraged on The O'Reilly Factor.
Really, I'm serious. What are these people thinking?
Of course, we know all too well that O'Reilly and Co. did their best to disavow any culpability in the matter whatsoever -- somewhat less than convincingly. So maybe the continuing demonization of abortion providers on this program is part and parcel of that defiance.
And the same sort of anecdotal demonization that characterized O'Reilly's attacks on Tiller were similarly at play in this segment on Planned Parenthood. It essentially involved an ambush team using a youngish-seeming woman posing as a 14-year-old entering a variety of Planned Parenthood clinics and recording the responses -- most of which, as described by the fake teen here, actually fit the standard response of most properly run clinics in trying to make sure that younger patients feel at ease.
The overriding message, once again, is that these abortion providers are a pack of morally depraved sickos who deserve to be in the crosshairs. Lovely.
I can think of three possibilities here:
1. Someone just thought putting an organization in the crosshairs was the best way to represent that they were under investigation, and the other implications of such a graphic just didn't cross anybody's radar.
2. They thought about it, recognized that it might not be appropriate, but did it anyway, either out of defiance or simply not caring.
3. They did it with full intent, understanding full well that the suggestion of violence against Planned Parenthood was present, and in fact designing the graphic with that in mind.
Of the three, I think the second is the most plausible. But it's only slightly less appalling, for different reasons, than the other two.
Look, despite what the O'Reillys and Glenn Becks and Laura Ingrahams like to claim, no one is trying to "silence" them for expressing their opinions. This is about being responsible with that big media megaphone they hold. Promoting a violent mindset toward abortion providers, as we have already seen, is profoundly irresponsible. It's long past time that it stop.
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hires idiots, shills, and fools!
isn't there a video on the internet now
with Laura Ingraham and coultergist called
2 Girls 1 Cup ? just google....gop debauchery.
Can't find it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg
would love it if a PP clinic were bombed, if personnel were murdered. Its good for ratings! It takes the Public's attention away from Single Payer Health Care and Republican sex scandals. It gives their Big-Mouthed Tiny-brained tabloid "Hosts" more things to scream and howl, jump up and down, and throw feces at. Howler Monkeys got nothing on O'Riley, Hannity and Beck.
..the monkeys are way more cultured!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlj4DHUEGRE
We monkeys like to think we're somehow above O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck and Ingraham.
Where the bloody fuck are the FBI and other law enforcement officials when these alleged domestic terrorist wannabes spew their violent, actionable terrorist threats on these right wing extremist outlets?
Fox's license to broadcast should be revoked.
Plain and simple.
The F.C.C. is enabling Fox to break the law.
Where's Congress? Where's Obama? Where's the Justice Department?
Talk about indecent!!!
Ingraham during her radio show called for the intentional jamming of the Democratic Voter Hotline on 2004 election day. Nothing happened to her then. Why should anything happen to her now? Because her irresponsible actions might spur some lunatic to murder planned parenthood personnel? She will do anything for a buck. She is a low human being, too bad she gets rewarded for being one.
Laura,?
Love the fetus-hate the child! Its a hard enough decision for a young woman to make and one, a caring man would have to live with but hard and difficult nonetheless. So why not make it more so, huh Faux News?
You know the reason why people with issues and guns act up sometimes?
Because they have issues and guns! Thanks for giving those people more reasons to go after legitimate and ethical Doctors who perform legal procedures for no other reason than it conflicts with your world view or you need ratings. okole pukas!
okole pukas!
That's "assholes," for those who don't speak Hawaiian.
..and I got a call from Maui!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57hQejSNP8Q
"Love the fetus-hate the child!"
Took the words right out of my mouth.
As someone who's worked in TV news and seen the level of micromanaging that goes on I can tell you I sincerely doubt these things are an accident-they are playing a deliberate, dangerous game.
It's deliberate, it looks to me. These media people know all about symbology and the demographics of their viewers, and these scumbag terrorists deliberately set out to egg on and provoke their extremist ideological colleague right wing Republinazi loons to go out and murder some more, it looks like to me considering the care with which media does things.
Why hasn't the FBI raided these FOX people and charged them with incitement to murder?
I started as a Chyron operator and now work as an editor.
For a network that makes its money warning us about the Real Meaning and Insidious Subtext of everything from Obama's breakfast (orange juice!) to socialismsocialismSOCIALISM!, it's simply not believeable that someone didn't get the context here.
So that leaves us with incompetence or deliberate design.
Or, to disrespect the 'Intelligent Design' crowd, this is FAR TOO COMPLEX to have come about by ACCIDENT. Therefore ... it's by intelligent design.
What are these people at Fox thinking?
That assumes facts not in evidence. Indeed all the available evidence suggests that not only do the folks at Faux News refrain from actual thought under all circumstance, but that they are constitutionally in capable of it. They simply emote based on a inchoate sense of rage and hatred.
After years of pondering why conservatives are SO against abortion, contraception and population control I think I have figured it out. We know they don't GIVE A FUCK about human life, so there must be other reasons...
1. Women aren't really human. They are for fucking and looking at. Sure they let them speak in public, if they are like Ingraham and Palin, because nothing spells "authentic" like a Stepford wife!
Want to control a woman, knock her up and keep her knocked up!
2. Customers. Conservatives are about making money, and to make money you need customers. Lot's of customers means a large labor pool so they also get low wages and can pit workers against each other.
3. Resource Depletion. The more consumers you have the scarcer resources become. More money for them less comfort for the proles. An uncomfortable prole will look for something to ease his pain and boredom..TV, beer, pro sports!
4. Cannon Fodder. War is BY FAR the best profit center there is, but they need undereducated low income low performance bullet catchers to make it really work.
5. Crime. Over population means more crime. More crime means more prisons and cops. Think of the crime industry as a military occupation but in our country. It's like the military, it is profitable, and they get to kill and torture poor people!! Win Win!
6. Elections. To string along the low-income religious voter to act against their own interest.
You understand!
I believe if you draw crosshairs over something you know exactly what you are doing and saying.
Bullseye!
I was about to say she was "on target"!
Blue Light special?
I prefer red.
Exactly, if you can stand to visit any of these right wing domestic terrorist Christian web sites, they routinely use rifle crosshairs or iron sights superimposed on pictures of their chosen targets -- blacks, Jews, fags, whatever. The symbology is deliberate.
Christianic terrorism is getting worse and worse. These religious loons won't rest until they re-build the Third Reigh.
I believe they know abortion will never be outlawed in this country so they know they will always have something to bitch about. When all else fails, drag out the anti-abortion argument.
The GOP could control both houses of congress, the white house and the supremes and they wouldn't and didn't do diddly about abortion because it removes a major Wedge issue. If these people really cared about the sanctity of marriage, they would work to outlaw divorce.
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...out fraudulent information to a planned parenthood clinic.
The right-wing nuts...don't...care..about.."free speech". To them, it's just a sham to hide their fear of prosecution for libel and slander, which is what somebody should be doing instead of just talking..
I call "agent provocateur"... absent further statements.
PS. Did ya see the one interrupt the judge's confirmation hearing?
When Sen Franken was speaking someone yelled something and had to be removed, but I haven't yet heard exactly what was said.
That was Chevy Chase!
Tom Davis?
I thought since it was Al speaking at the time, maybe it was "a big fat idiot" who was yelling.
That was an insane Christian loon screaming psychobabble. He tried to get the mainstream media to interview him after the insane cultist was dragged outside.
Last December, I read a WSJ article that examined the anti-abortionists new tactic of attacking the public funding of PP.
Included in this article is a pie chart showing PP funding (FY 2007) and services provided (2006). Interestingly, only 33% of PP funding is from government grants or contracts to provide services. And yet, only 3% of the services provided by PP are abortions.
It bothers me that nobody ever talks about the services that PP provides to men. Just last month in Indiana PP reported that "nearly 4,600 men came to its health care centers around the state last year..." And that report came 6 months after this bimbette tried the same stunt in Indiana.
DCS won't investigate Planned Parenthood clinic
With more and more people without healthcare, let's eliminate free clinics! Yeah, that's the ticket.
Maroons.
Heckler at Judge Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing: "What About the Unborn?"
During Feinstein's questioning.
Mon, 07/13/2009 - 12:32 — Michelle
Heckler at Judge Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing: "What About the Undead?"
(Fixed it fer ya.)
..but now you have put images of brain-eating zombies in my head!
;o}
Is this something the girl did recently? I could swear I have heard this almost exact story before, some time back like maybe a year or so.
when nutcases kill for them. Manson started it in modern times. Nope, fox and their tribe were rejected by mainstream America after their heroes crashed the country's economy and reputation. So far, the perps have gotten clean away with it. Crime pays. So, the Palin wing of the party decided to follow the bush crime family's lead and have decided to get in on the action themselves with a little vigilantism. I don't expect it to get much better without some high profile convictions and a return to a demand for accountability in the country.
....is looking for a fight. They want to be able to scream about censorship. They want to say, "look, the black man is trying to take away our rights to free speech!" So they push the limits of decency and common sense, praying that someone in a high office will speak out against them, and then they can play the victims.
So far no one is biting. What it's going to take to stop this nonsense is for Republicans to condemn it, and that's about as likely as my waking up tomorrow to find I've been snowed in.
and ask them their intent directly. Maybe follow them with a camera if they do not respond? Perhaps they can demonstrate the use of this graphic on other FOX investigations. I am sure they just substituted the view finder from the microscope they usually use on such topics.
... are the most interested in regulating other people's vaginas?
If you don't want an abortion, don't have one.
Sometimes I get the distinct feeling the only reason these assholes are against abortion, it is because if eliminates possible targets they can victimize once they leave their precious womb. It is like those hunters who love nature, not because they care for the critters, but because they want to make sure nature survives long enough to produce another round of targets for them to shoot.
Lest they be least.
I read a biography of Margaret Sanger when I was a young girl and it changed my life. I studied hard and dedicated myself to a career in public health specifically to bring knowledge and care to poor and struggling people.
Ms. Ingraham needs some quiet time.
I know there are some people who feel as strong about stopping abortions as I do about stopping pollution and the destruction of natural lands, but I would guess those speaking the loudest are just using the topic as a way to garner favor and in reality could give a flying shit if a woman has an abortion or not.
I'd bet good money that Ingraham herself ordered the crosshairs. She is such a mean and nasty person. I've seen her whine and moan about something, even if O'Reilly has an opposite view.
These people need to be censored, or, worse, sent to prison for inciting violence.
can you imagine waking up to that every day?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwn3BfhaBqE
But Ingraham is always wearing that little cross on a chain around her neck so that makes whatever she says okay......right?
I haven't seen health insurance in over 5 years and it it weren't for Planned Parenthood I wouldn't get any medical care whatsoever. You'd think that they only do abortions when in fact they are the only option for any kind of healthcare of a lot of people like me. I make barely enough to afford rent and food (forget about savings) but I always find a little to make a donation to my Planned Parenthood because they are the most caring and giving to someone in real need of medical care. Faux News really pisses me off.
Maybe if FOX was named MOVE ON we'd see a little more accountability out of them.You know-in the form of symbolic government resolutions.
MOVE ON of course got hammered hard for their "Betray Us" ad,with 72 "deeply offended" Senators voting to condemn them.Bad Move On.Surely FOX in all the long painful time this cluster of braying lunatics have been on the air,surely at least ONCE they have committed an act that merits the same deep indignation? Nah...
Gotta go off the beaten path here a little bit. I just saw on msnbc that Malai Obama wore a peace t-shirt last week and right wing blogs are now making racial comments about her
I believe the comments ranged from "ghetto trash" to some variation of "whore". Nice work on an eleven year old right?
"wonder when she's going to get her first abortion?" these people are beyond awful, and to my great disgust I'm related to a bunch of them
What were these people thinking? They were thinking just what you think they're thinking: that right-wingers would see the Planned Parenthood logo with rifle crosshairs superimposed over it and continue to attack Planned Parenthood centers and murder doctors who work there. They know exactly what they're doing, and it is intentional.
Here's some of the rants about Malai and her t-shirt
What else would we expect from murder loving Fox News and our very own dried up Catholic challenged Ingraham? Fox knows what their doing. It's almost like they sense they would profit in some way from an all out civil war in this country.
A classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3lCfHtaR30
This speaks volumes.
Abortions aren't even the primary activities of PP clinics. They provide other services, including support of women that actually want their babies.
Well if Laura brought that part of PP up, it wouldn't be fair and balanced, would it? See that's the tricky part about Fox, neither fair nor balanced.
David - you know EXACTLY what they're thinking. They're fomenting for violence and anything related to the topic of abortion is a reliable source for it.
There are no words to describe the monster that IS Laura Ingraham. A more unnatural woman cannot exist. She's Coultergist in a woman's body.
A vile, vemonous, vitriolic vamp.
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In early 2007, an investigative article published by The Birmingham News revealed that King and a group from his church had accepted free tickets, food, and skybox access to an Atlanta Braves baseball game from Alabama Power Company the previous season. Alabama Power had not reported the gifts to appropriate ethics agencies, as required, until contacted by the News. King attended the game with his family and church friends.
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Would laura be against an investigation of who crucified Jesus, because it might hurt reputations?
These freaks will never NEVER stop ... unless they have to pay. If somehow, they are held accountable for all this shit, trust me, they will stop. (Like an individual getting life in prison, or a "news" organization or talk show getting fined at least several million dollars.) Look at Bruce Murch. He was one of the biggest anti-choice, religious zealots. Then Planned Parenthood got a ruling against him, fining him several million dollars. He refuses to work today, so his income won't go to PP. Fine by me -- it shuts him up.
Until then, it goes the other way. I just saw that, today, almost 50% of Americans don't approve of Roe vs. Wade. And I believe it. Back when Roe was made law, I was about 18 years old. I don't recall much negative being said. Now? The opposite -- it seems most Americans, while not wanting to make all abortions illegal, want strict standards, such as the so-called (read: LIE) partial birth abortion ban. Also, many laws against 2nd trimester abortions.
This is how it happens, folks. Americans are, by and large, ignorant. They have no clue what is going on.
And to think this was all started by:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/
I'll tell you what they're thinking. They're thinking that as long as teabaggers want boner pills and gold investment scams, they (Fox) will tell them anything they want to hear.
Laura Ingraham = Unmarried, Childless, Bile-spewing, Christian, Family-values Crone
This is absurd, as almost all of what these entertainers at FAUX do. In the first place, Planned Parenthood is not responsible for the ineptitude of its workers provided it provides proper training and the environment which encourages employees to follow policy and state law. I am certain this Planned Parenthood did that! Therefore, the employee involved is responsible in the event law was broken. But, for Fox News, it is not as much fun to do a piece on a worker named Jane Doe as it is to blast Planned Parenthood. Kind of like the policy they employ when acusing Acorn of election fraud when that too is nothing but sensationalism to rile up their loons who watch.
No one is in favor of statutory rape after all, so they had to bend the story to fit the outrage I am sure. So, put another way .... all the people on this program had to be dishonest to make it suit Fox's requirement. Follow-up would show no indictment I am sure, but that totally is irrelivant to the Fox production team. The only issue important to them is their ability to incite their base, the truth or facts be damned.
FOX noise is as old as the hills. FOX is the same old crap - nothing new but the suits and flashy visuals. Same old snake oil. same old dog and pony fascism.
I believe something was missed, here -- the content of the actual conversation.
Dr. Paul McHugh, the same doctor whom O'Reilly tried to sell as his "expert" in the case against Dr. Tiller, did something very similar to what Ingraham is accusing Planned Parenthood of doing:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?fil...
-- "At least eight men have been convicted of sexually abusing Maryland children while under treatment at the "sex disorders" clinic McHugh runs at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine -- abuse the doctors did not report, citing client confidentiality. When Maryland law was changed to require that doctors report child molestation, the clinic fought it and advised patients on how to get around the law. The memo to patients suggested that molesters report their pedophilic activities to their lawyers, who could in turn tell staff; attorney-client privilege would then protect the molesters from being reported. This memo was fully approved by the boss -- Dr. Paul McHugh ....."
Keeps pushing the envelope. It is just a matter of time before they will be forced to shut down. On that day the country will be rid of a cancer that threatened to end our entire experiment in democracy.
Yeah, but I shudder to think what has to happen before somebody decides to put Fox out of business once and for all.
I vote for reason #2. These freaks just don't care what they say. They take no responsibility whatsoever;to critics they just shrug their shoulders and say "Hey, we're just giving our viewers what they want"
I don't think it's vague. What they intend. It's a bullseye from a rifle scope.
Remeber Foley listed as a "D" in the title, same with a number of other headline GOP members, they are always listed as a "D"
They know their viewers and want to appeal to them. All the better if they can whip up some more news like a crazed gunman manacing a medical facility. They could go live and direct to that. Especially if the lunatic tips off his favorite teevee channel with a note explaining his motives.
And they refuse to learn. PP in crosshairs? CROSSHAIRS?? They knew what they were doing. They know who watches their channel. They know who eats loads of their BS. And of course if god forbid something happens AGAIN, they'll say "Wasn't our fault...next story"
Call Fox and their
henchmenreporters anything but human. Where's the FBI? FCC?You're welcome.
Hey everybody-
Since when did Republicans start giving a frack about the law???
I get it, they're trying to corner the market for shagging underage girls. It's only okay when THEY do it lololol!!!
-JR
http://www.econocataclysm.com
that should be pursed under Bush and Cheney misuse of power. Then it would be "looking back" not looking forward. I guess you use the term Rule of law ONLY when and if it supports your cause.
When I didn't have health insurance for quite a while, Planned Parenthood was a savior. And this malnourished bimbo isn't going to change my opinion about them.
As a few have already commented, this goes on as long as its a money maker. Organize a boycott and work to expose the sponsors' lack of credibility due to their association with the network. Until then, you're just venting your outrage in a nonproductive way.
There's an alphabetized list at http://foxnewsboycott.com/fox-news-sponsors/f.... One commentor even organized them by category (which may need an update -- Best Buy fell off the list & Lowe's is an entertainment firm???). Get started...
I do this stuff for a living ... the producer or the segment tells the graphic person exactly what they want to see. JUst like in the case of the lead up to the Gulf War ... the producers at CNN specifically had me work up promos that depicted Saddam as a madman.
Isn't there some way to file for a Cease and Desist order? Probably wouldn't change their ways, but it would put their activities in the crosshairs.... er, so to speak.
Trespass to land suit. I'm sure wing nut shills and hacks who's purpose is to harass employees and patients don't have consent to be there.
But yeah, I'm sure if Faux's drones keep going to the same clinic, the clinic should be able to get an injunction on their asses.
hysterically ridiculous?
The woman doesn't look 14 to me. She probably didn't look 14 to the PP worker.
There wasn't any crime. Because there wasn't any crime, there wasn't any reporting requirement.
But the state AG is mad, not that this filmmaker tried to divert public resources by attempting to back the PP worker into making a false report, but because the PP worker didn't go along with the obvious ruse. I'm sure it's not the first wingnut plant that has come into the Alabama clinic, and the PP workers have been trained to show her the door.
Can't these people at least find themselves a REAL 14 year old? At least there would be evidence then of the clinic handling a situation that might have been a crime incorrectly - although there still would be no crime.
You have to be completely brain dead to watch O'Reilly.
...makes my ears bleed.
"3. They did it with full intent, understanding full well that the suggestion of violence against Planned Parenthood was present, and in fact designing the graphic with that in mind."
I keep saying this, Murdoch would love nothing more than a civil war in the U.S.
Think of the ratings on all of his international TV networks. It would go GANGBUSTERS.
Fool me thousands of times per year...
Now, that's Fox News!
I work at a Planned Parenthood. Laura and pals act as though there is a conspiracy to encourage abuse! That is not true. We are mandatory reporters. We are bound by the law. Lila exploits the workers who make mistakes.
By the way, 97% of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion PREVENTION. I think it is very sad that presentations like this one give Planned Parenthood such a bad rap. I want the young people in my community to feel safe and proud to come to our clinic and take advantage of the services we offer them. We also serve many low income women of middle age for their women's health issues. Fuck you Laura!
I tried to find a place to write to Fox News but they didn't seem to have a contact us feedback option like CNN. Has anybody written to them that can share the link?
noone should encourage young girls to have an abortion and if only one worker is doing this it still is a reflection on clinic management. As soon as she said she is 14 with a 31 year old boy friend you can tell she is lying. Hire more intelligent workers.
No one does.
Planned Parenthood helpd arrange pre-natal, as well as check-ups, as well as arranging medical care for the indigent in delivering their babies, as well as adoption for those who don't want to keep them. Abortion is one option out of many, that some underaged might actually came to one of their centers to request, and Planned Parenthood doesn't preach to them.
looks like she's askin for a good dose of statutory
What's with the slight of hand here? Did anyone listen? It is illegal for this rep to tell this girl that here boyfriend has anything to do with her parent's consent. This worker was wrong. what is the big deal in pointing that out. It is illegal. Workers should be trained to follow the law. 97% of workers at planned Parenthood DO give alternative options other than abortion and do follow the law. But when a breach is recorded, it should be addressed. Geez. How hard is that for all of us to recognize.
A close friend essentially asked me to escort her to a Planed Parenthood since she knew I knew some marital arts and kept a bokken (wooden training sword) on my car.
It strikes me now as a realization of how messed up things are that back then my first thought wasn't "why the hell do you need me to go with you?" She was only going in to get birth control so she wouldn't have to have an abortion. Even before Tiller's assassination I knew back then why she was asking for a guy who can fight to go with her.
Nowadays, post Dr. Tiller assassination, next time a friend asks me to take her there, it's my Lee Enfield in the car.
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