George Will Spreading Dangerous Lies. Well I Never (Planned Parenthood)

[babylonsister]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/03/1408329/-George-Will-Spreading-Lies-Well-I-Never?detail=email

Mon Aug 03, 2015 at 04:28 AM PDT
George Will Spreading Dangerous Lies. Well I Never

by LaFeminista


Well trust him to get on the bandwagon, outrage pushed to 11

We are wallowing in this moral swamp because the Supreme Court accelerated the desensitization of the nation by using words and categories about abortion the way infants use knives and forks -- with gusto, but sloppily. Because Planned Parenthood's snout is deep in the federal trough, decent taxpayers find themselves complicit in the organization's vileness. What kind of a government disdains the deepest convictions of citizens by forcing them to finance what they see in videos -- Planned Parenthood operatives chattering about bloody human fragments? "Taxes," said Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., "are what we pay for civilized society." Today they finance barbarism.

As media matters points out

Despite Will's declaration that taxes "finance barbarism," Planned Parenthood does not use any federal money for abortion procedures -- it's been unlawful for nearly 40 years.

This is the typical right wing method of attack. Base your own lies on a deceptive series of faked and falsified video reports. No matter what the reality actually is, ignore it.

Shame on the Washington Post for printing this type of fallacious opinion.

From Fact Check dot Org

But Planned Parenthood cannot use the money it receives from the federal government for abortions anyway. According to the Department of Health and Human Service’s website, "by law, Title X funds may not be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning." Medicaid funding is restricted by the Hyde Amendment to only abortion cases involving rape, incest or endangerment to the life of the mother. Some states use their own funds under Medicaid to go beyond that. Seventeen states and, until recently, the District of Columbia pay for "medically necessary" abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute. The federal budget deal now bans Washington, D.C., from using its funds to pay for abortions.

Perhaps it is time for the Washington Post's own fact checker to check the "facts" it publishes? George Will's pants would make one hell of a pyrotechnic display, there are not enough Pinocchios in the world for his shtick.

[misterhighwasted]

1. HOw much did George Will get paid to cover the GOP asses with this lie.

Get the message out there George. Doesn't matter if its the truth, just make it sound believable.
What an ugly means to an end.

[n2doc]

2. Taxes do finance barbarism

Just not in the way georgie boy thinks. They are financing the destruction of the middle east and the decent of the region into barbarism. We have spent trillions doing this.

[spanone]

3. when i was younger, i thought mr will was gifted with a great intellect.

[Fred Sanders]

4. George Will used to make half-sense, but now he has gone full Fox insane. It was inevitable.

[CTyankee]

5. George, you are old and limp. Face it. You will no more be what you were...if ever

you actually were...

[chieftain]

6. Oh spare me the phony hand wringing, Mr. Will.

My tax dollars went to the raining of hell fire from the sky in your and other neo-cons wet dream of Shock and Awe and not one word of concern from you about my scruples against financing that immoral and inept fiasco.

[Johonny]

7. George Will equates women with barbarism , pigs, and immorality

so he might not be one of those decent citizens he was thinking about.

[Volaris]

8. "Today they pay for barbarism."

Does that mean I don't have to pay taxes because illegal fucking wars?

Yeah, that's kinda what I thought he would say. Fuck him.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Touche!