Considering this ad was pretty much a full-fledged lie it only makes sense that the venomous NARAL is withdrawing it.
WASHINGTON - After a week of protests by conservatives, an abortion rights group said Thursday night it is withdrawing a television advertisement linking Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to violent anti-abortion activists.
"We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record," said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
"Unfortunately, the debate over that advertisement has become a distraction from the serious discussion we hoped to have with the American public," she said in a letter Thursday to Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who had urged the group to withdraw the ad.
Serious discussion? The ad said that Judge Roberts was pro-violence. NARAL was serious about that?
Specter, himself an abortion-rights supporter as well as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will question Roberts next month, earlier Thursday had called the ad "blatantly untrue and unfair."
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The original ad has been airing on broadcast television in Maine and Rhode Island and on CNN.
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Conservatives and Roberts supporters have been calling all week for NARAL to pull the ad.
NARAL had planned a $500,000 campaign to show the ad for two weeks.
"This ad grossly distorts the record of John Roberts from start to finish," said former Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. "It has only one goal: to associate John Roberts with violent extremists."
Senate Democrats have not taken a position on the ad.
Basically, NARAL was probably on the verge of a lawsuit and decided to pull it. Also, I'm sure a few liberals chimed in and told NARAL that the ad wasn't going to do any good.
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We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record,"That's rich.
Forget apology. It's simply your fault that you don't agree with our view on the matter.
I actually caught a NARAL shill being interviewed by Hannity last nite, and it was actually entertaining listening to the guy slip and slide around the issue, and claim that everything asserted was factual.
Everything stated was factual. That's like stringing together a bunch of words and calling it a sentence even though it's nothing but pure gibberish because all of the rules of grammar were thrown out the window. I'd say this was shameful, but these folks have no shame.
Posted by: lawhawk at August 11, 2005 09:07 PM (CNQep)
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Too bad, it was doing them serious harm.
Posted by: traderrob at August 11, 2005 09:18 PM (3al54)
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'miscontrued'? Like the ad was nuanced?
I suspect there was a warning shot fired across NARAL's bow. Dirt flies two ways- and they backed down pretty quickly.
Posted by: Sigmund, Carl and Alfred at August 11, 2005 09:21 PM (dHZc2)
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Hey Lawhawk, did it sound like this?
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Posted by: kstumpf at August 11, 2005 09:33 PM (Kv4B9)
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The ad wasn't totally false and fabricated-- we "misconstrued" it.
Lying sacks of marxist leninist filth.
Posted by: Carlos at August 11, 2005 09:34 PM (8e/V4)
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The nutcases on the Left are killing the Democrats. I imagine that someone high up in the Democratic Party called the NARAL dogs off as soon as they realized they were looking like the fools they are.
In one sense it's sad to watch the demise of the Democrats, but it sure is fun to watch them cut off their noses to spite their faces.
Were none of this true no one would believe it. You just can't make this stuff up. It's that incredible. It's as if they get up every morning and do their best to see how much more damage they can do to themselves. The Cindy Sheehan spectacle is a case in point. Unbelieveable!
Posted by: jesusland joe at August 11, 2005 09:35 PM (DDXXI)
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I have determined the Lefties are trapped behind the looking glass. In their honor I post this piece by Lewis Carrol. (Substitute Jabberwock with the term Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.)
"Beware the Jabberwock,(Vast right wing conspiracy) my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird,(President Bush) and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!(Vice President Cheny)"
He (Valiant Moonbat Warrior)took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,(CNN Center in Atlata)
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock,(VRWC) with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?(VRWC)
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He (Howard Dean)chortled in his joy.
Posted by: kstumpf at August 11, 2005 09:42 PM (Kv4B9)
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Yes I misspelled Atlanta and possibly the VP's last name. I apologize.
Posted by: kstumpf at August 11, 2005 09:45 PM (Kv4B9)
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"We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record,"
Sounded just like Durbin's "apology", huh? Is this the new standard by which they don't admit when they're wrong?
Posted by: Oyster at August 12, 2005 07:09 AM (YudAC)
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"...to associate John Roberts with violent extremists."
"Violent extremists"? Sounds like a good name for pro-abortionists.
Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at August 12, 2005 07:56 AM (x+5JB)
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