LA Times - Jonah Goldberg Repeats The Infanticide Smear Re Abortion

[Median Democrat]

Of course, Jonah Goldberg neglects to point out that infancticide was already against the law in Illinois, thus the only purpose of the law was to try to undermine Roe v. Wade.

http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-goldberg19-2008aug19,0,7505749.column?track=rss

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In 2003, as chairman of the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee, Obama received a statement from Jill Stanek, a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill. She testified that at her Chicago-area hospital, she'd seen a baby accidentally delivered alive during an abortion and then "taken to the Soiled Utility Room and left alone to die."

I'm no expert on the Christian Gospel, but something tells me that Matthew might consider these wailing creatures the least of our brothers.

Alas, the abandonment of babies to suffer and die on the modern equivalent of a Spartan cliff did not require confronting evil. Indeed, Obama led the battle to defeat Illinois' version of the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which would have treated babies living, albeit briefly, outside the womb as, well, babies. He opposed the bill in 2003 (as he had a similar one in 2001), saying it would undermine Roe vs. Wade. But even after Roe-neutral language was included -- wording good enough that it won support for the federal version of the bill from abortion-rights stalwart Sen. Barbara Boxer -- Obama remained unmoved.

Until this week, Obama denied that he ever took such a position. His campaign has now admitted that he was, in effect, lying when he said pro-lifers were lying about his record. But simultaneously, Obama defends a position that comes dismayingly close to the layman's understanding of infanticide while claiming any other position would require him to play God.

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[Bicoastal]

1. Jonah Goldberg and Max Boot...

...the Beavis and Butthead of the LA Times Opinion Section.

[Median Democrat]

2. In Comparison, Many Newspapers Won't Touch Cross-gate...

Even though there are much more facts supporting the fact that McCain's story is a fabrication. You do not even need to explain the plagiarism. All you need to do is lay out the facts in chronolgical order, which leads to the conclusion that McCain made up the story to pander to the Evangelical right.

Yet, Jonah Goldberg gets to publish his tripe in the LA Times while the McCain Cross-gate story would have died but for the efforts of the folks in the blogosphere.