INCOMING!: Salvo Number 56 Against Roberts
And we thought that the rhetoric against Roberts could not get any worse. In a follow-up to their slander-laced ad that they pulled from CNN, NARAL has launched a new ad. Jesse Holland, an AP writer, picked up on this on Friday.
WASHINGTON - An abortion rights group on Friday launched a new television ad criticizing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, two weeks after pulling a heavily criticized commercial that linked him to violent anti-abortion activists.
The new ad "paints a really clear and unambiguous picture of John Roberts' record and it keeps the public debate focused on the threats that he poses to our freedom," said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
The original ad ran locally in Maine and Rhode Island, and on CNN. Using a woman who was injured in a clinic bombing, it criticized Roberts and linked him with violent anti-abortion protesters because of the anti-abortion briefs he worked on as a government lawyer in 1991.
Conservatives and Republican senators called the ad untrue and unfair.
The new ad, featuring smiling families and an American flag in the background, emphasizes a phrase in a 1981 Roberts memos: the "so-called right to privacy," and points out that he co-wrote a government memo saying the landmark
Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion was wrongly decided.
"There's just too much at stake to let John Roberts become a decisive vote on the Supreme Court," the ad says.
The new ad will run on CNN and during cable programming in the Washington, D.C. area. NARAL says it is using part of its $500,000 slated for the original buy to pay for the new ad.
The ad comes as groups continue to take side in the Roberts debate.
The Human Rights Campaign, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays announced their opposition to Roberts' nomination on Thursday. That day, the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, Project 21 and the Center for New Black Leadership endorsed the federal judge.
Roberts also will return to Capitol Hill on Monday for his second meeting with top Judiciary Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
Now, for those that are unfamiliar with the background on Roe (hard to believe, but as is apparent even the Left has forgotten the finer details to this case), it was decided in 1973. In 1981, Roberts wrote the memos for the Reagan White House condemning the decision. And rightly so as Roe is not back up by jurisprudence, or even Constitutional law, in general. It is a gross miscarriage of the concept of Constitutional interpretation.
It is only natural for him to question the idea of an all-encompassing "right to privacy;" even liberal legal scholars were left scratching their heads over that idea. Legal scholars from both sides of the spectrum slammed the high court for its legal creativity in the decision. To date, quite a few liberal law professors believe Roe was decided incorrectly even if they do agree with the decision to allow a woman to murder her unborn child.
I expect this ad to disappear as quickly as their previous ad did from CNN. The simple fact remains that there is little, if any, evidence showing this man to be as extreme as the Left is portraying him to be. In short, they are simply sliming and slandering a very good man, a well-qualified jurist, and an outstanding family man. To say this man is extreme is as equally laughable as referring to Pres. Clinton or Larry Flynt as moralistic.
The Bunny ;)
And we thought that the rhetoric against Roberts could not get any worse. In a follow-up to their slander-laced ad that they pulled from CNN, NARAL has launched a new ad. Jesse Holland, an AP writer, picked up on this on Friday.
WASHINGTON - An abortion rights group on Friday launched a new television ad criticizing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, two weeks after pulling a heavily criticized commercial that linked him to violent anti-abortion activists.
The new ad "paints a really clear and unambiguous picture of John Roberts' record and it keeps the public debate focused on the threats that he poses to our freedom," said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
The original ad ran locally in Maine and Rhode Island, and on CNN. Using a woman who was injured in a clinic bombing, it criticized Roberts and linked him with violent anti-abortion protesters because of the anti-abortion briefs he worked on as a government lawyer in 1991.
Conservatives and Republican senators called the ad untrue and unfair.
The new ad, featuring smiling families and an American flag in the background, emphasizes a phrase in a 1981 Roberts memos: the "so-called right to privacy," and points out that he co-wrote a government memo saying the landmark
Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion was wrongly decided.
"There's just too much at stake to let John Roberts become a decisive vote on the Supreme Court," the ad says.
The new ad will run on CNN and during cable programming in the Washington, D.C. area. NARAL says it is using part of its $500,000 slated for the original buy to pay for the new ad.
The ad comes as groups continue to take side in the Roberts debate.
The Human Rights Campaign, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays announced their opposition to Roberts' nomination on Thursday. That day, the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, Project 21 and the Center for New Black Leadership endorsed the federal judge.
Roberts also will return to Capitol Hill on Monday for his second meeting with top Judiciary Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
Now, for those that are unfamiliar with the background on Roe (hard to believe, but as is apparent even the Left has forgotten the finer details to this case), it was decided in 1973. In 1981, Roberts wrote the memos for the Reagan White House condemning the decision. And rightly so as Roe is not back up by jurisprudence, or even Constitutional law, in general. It is a gross miscarriage of the concept of Constitutional interpretation.
It is only natural for him to question the idea of an all-encompassing "right to privacy;" even liberal legal scholars were left scratching their heads over that idea. Legal scholars from both sides of the spectrum slammed the high court for its legal creativity in the decision. To date, quite a few liberal law professors believe Roe was decided incorrectly even if they do agree with the decision to allow a woman to murder her unborn child.
I expect this ad to disappear as quickly as their previous ad did from CNN. The simple fact remains that there is little, if any, evidence showing this man to be as extreme as the Left is portraying him to be. In short, they are simply sliming and slandering a very good man, a well-qualified jurist, and an outstanding family man. To say this man is extreme is as equally laughable as referring to Pres. Clinton or Larry Flynt as moralistic.
The Bunny ;)
posted by Syd And Vaughn | 3:09 PM
1 Comments:
Good blog. FactCheck.org, the Anneberg political fact check entitled Naral Round 2 No destortion here. That organization is loose with the factual truth. Rawriter
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