Murder Incorporated Denies Wrongdoing
On the radio, one of the top-of-the-hour news blurbs was that Planned Parenthood dismissed all allegations from an unnamed video as being fraudulent, an attempt to scare women and hinder their reproductive rights.
Nothing more was said. That was given as straight news, as if it were a newsworthy item. There was no context, no explanation, and the other side of the story was simply “pretended”out of existence.
The unnamed video, of course was the one where a top officer for Planned Parenthood (as Murder Incorporated is called on the cubicular bizzaro world, where all things are backward) was dickering for money over how much for each organ harvested from late term abortions. She described how the forceps would grasp the dismembered baby body in the proper spot, so as to not damage the expensive kidneys, lungs, or other juicy bits that bring a fine price on the medical meat market.
It is on tape, the person is speaking, you can watch it for yourself. That is what the news reported Planned Parenthood airily dismissed and denied, without bothering even to say what was being denied.
I used to work in the newspaper business. This was not how news is reported. Newsmen do not simply read the press releases of their advertisers. Even the slimiest Madison Avenue ad-man does not try to deceive the viewer into thinking he is not seeing an ad. Even the slimiest would not package their propaganda as news.
I was more revolted than I can put into words, especially when I think of the effort honesty newsmen expend finding the real story and printing the truth, or at least telling both sides. This is antinews, the thing that destroys news.
Exasperated by the sheer juvenile dishonesty of this, as a public service, I here reprint a list of the 41 companies that have directly funded Planned Parenthood.
- Adobe
- American Cancer Society
- American Express
- AT&T
- Avon
- Bank of America
- Bath & Body Works
- Ben & Jerry’s
- Clorox
- Coca-Cola
- Converse
- Deutsche Bank
- Dockers
- Energizer
- Expedia
- ExxonMobil
- Fannie Mae
- Ford
- Groupon
- Intuit
- Johnson & Johnson
- La Senza
- Levi Strauss
- Liberty Mutual
- Macy’s
- March of Dimes
- Microsoft
- Morgan Stanley
- Nike
- Oracle
- PepsiCo
- Pfizer
- Progressive
- Starbucks
- Susan G. Komen
- Tostitos
- Unilever
- United Way
- Verizon
- Wells Fargo
- Xerox
My editor, Vox Day, the most hated man in science fiction, proffers this advice:
Start sending emails, complete with quotes from the Planned Parenthood people about selling organs from aborted infants, to the PR/Marketing departments of these corporations and asking them if they support those practices. Put all the relevant names and emails on a central site, complete with various draft emails, and then start sending emails. Recruit others to do so. Talk about your activities under the #PPGate hashtag.
Don’t threaten, don’t talk about boycotts, don’t quote Bible verses, just try to get a statement from them concerning whether they support Planned Parenthood’s sale of harvested human organs. Don’t whine, suck it up and recall that thousands of gamers did this for weeks before getting any results.
Another reader (or minion) at the Vos Day website suggests: When you look at the Planned Parenthood supporter list and find a company in which you own stock, you might try to hit them through the investor relations channel as well.
And yet another diligent Voxishman from Voxland compiled this list of companies and their contact details: http://pastebin.com/TcSf5KRi
Eliminating the taxpayer funding of the baby butchery and organlegging will be more difficult, because you, the taxpayer, can be and will be loftily ignored by our elite masters.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
