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Whiny NARAL Mouthpiece Blames O’Reilly For Tiller Murder
Today’s Washington Post has a ridiculous hit piece in it from NARAL vice president of communications Mary Alice Carr. She apparently took the brave stance of refusing to appear on “The O’Reilly Factor” to discuss the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller.
Carr shamelessly exploits the tragic death of Dr. Tiller by laying the responsibility for it at O’Reilly’s feet.
O’Reilly is being incredibly disingenuous when he claims that he bears no responsibility for others’ actions in the killing of Dr. George Tiller on Sunday. When you tell an audience of millions over and over again that someone is an executioner, you cannot feign surprise when someone executes that person.
So by this logic if president Bush had been assassinated it would have been Keith Olbermann’s fault. After all, you can’t come on television every night and tell Americans their president is a fascist war criminal who’s spying on them and not expect someone to try and stop him.
Obviously, this is ridiculous logic. To follow this logic would mean commentators couldn’t really talk about anything. Who’s to say what topic might set some nut off? Anything could prompt anyone to violence at anytime.
Carr also makes the false charge that O’Reilly never expressed sympathy or remorse for Tiller’s death. It’s true that O’Reilly never apologized for anything he said (nor should he), but he said on two different nights that the murder of Dr. Tiller was wrong.
He said we are a nation of laws and that kind of vigilante justice is unacceptable — and he’s right.
What Mary Alice Carr is trying to do on behalf of her radical abortion-on-demand cause is intimidate people from being publicly critical of abortion.
Sane Americans of every political stripe know what happened to Dr. Tiller was wrong. It was a case of domestic terrorism pure and simple.
However, most Americans also believe that partial birth abortion is wrong and morally repugnant. Clear thinking Americans on all sides also agree that Tiller was a butcher. He made millions over the course of his career and murdered more than 60,000 babies.
For $5,000 Tiller would perform an abortion for any woman at any point in her pregnancy for any reason.
It was only because of a sympathetic governor and Attorney General in Kansas that Tiller wasn’t sent to prison for performing illegal late-term abortions.
I myself am pro-choice, but what Tiller did was wrong on every level. If it were no big deal then Tiller wouldn’t have been one of only three doctors in the United States willing to do what he did.
Bill O’Reilly had every right to comment on Tiller and let Americans know what the hell was going on in Kansas.
The real outrage is that O’Reilly was the only one in the media with enough guts to talk about it.
I don’t the patience for it, but Tim Graham over at NewsBusters breaks down each lie and mischaracterization in Carr’s column and sets the record straight.
-Chris Jones
The Murder Of Dr. Tiller Is An Outrage
Dr. George Tiller was certainly no saint. Even those who are pro-choice (myself included) thought Tiller was a barbarian.
He was one of only two doctors in the U.S. willing to perform late-term or partial birth abortions. If doing that was no big deal a lot more doctors would be willing to do it.
For $5,000, Dr. Tiller would terminate a pregnancy regardless of how far a long it was. I may be pro-choice, but killing a baby that’s already a fully formed human capable of living outside the womb is murder.
Having said that, what happened to Dr. Tiller was also murder. It’s an outrage that anyone would take that kind of vigilante action. Cutting a man down in church in front of his wife is despicable.
Murdering abortion doctors or firebombing clinics is domestic terrorism and should be treated as such.
Wacko “Christians” who murder abortion doctors are no different than wacko Muslims who murder in the name of their faith.
In a civilized society this kind of thing cannot and should not be tolerated under any circumstances.
Predictably, the left-wing kooks at the Kos, HuffPo, and elsewhere are doing their best to make political hay out of this terrorist act.
-Chris Jones
**UPDATE**
Gov. Sarah Palin issued a statement concerning the murder of George Tiller:
"I feel sorrow for the Tiller family. I respect the sanctity of life and the tragedy that took place today in Kansas clearly violates respect for life. This murder also damages the positive message of life, for the unborn, and for those living. Ask yourself, ‘What will those who have not yet decided personally where they stand on this issue take away from today’s event in Kansas?’
Regardless of my strong objection to Dr. Tiller’s abortion practices, violence is never an answer in advancing the pro-life message."
Governor Sarah Palin
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