Catholic League VS The Daily Show Should We Call for Reverse Boycotts?

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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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The Catholic League has convinced Delta Airlines to pull it's ads from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, calling one portion of one skit "hate Speech" according to Think Progress report We Are Now Beginning Our Descent: Delta Sides With Anti-Gay Donohue, Withdraws Ads From The Daily Show.

The Think Progress report points out how the League's speech is pretty offensive, too.

A lot of sources cite wording at Buzz Feed which  uses the picture that is supposed to be so offensive.  It is a little shocking even to me as a grown woman so I will excerpt the portion I think is important.  The announcement by the League to go after other sponsors of Stewart's show and the way they are doing it.,

Donohue outlined his attack strategy against Kellogg's on the Catholic League website today: "Today, all the top management at Kellogg’s will receive a color photo of a naked woman with her legs spread and a nativity scene ornament in between. Let’s see if that jars them. Over 700 photos have been sent to leaders in Battle Creek, Michigan."

In other words, the Catholic League is implying that The Daily Show is into smut?   In fact, Stewart himself says in the video that he hadn't seen the picture before, and appears to start to ask if he is blushing, and he does look noticeably pinker after viewing the graphic.  The comment was about states passing laws forcing women to have "unwanted medical intrusion into their vaginas" and how women might prevent that.  On the surface it actually the supports the "War on Christmas" as well.  Any other implication is purely in the mind of the beholder and X Rated parts are not actually shown.  The picture is obviously taken in a doctor's office (notice the typical examination room paper under the woman, though I have to admit that doctors are not usually having women undress fully for a pelvic exam.  It is possible it was in the office of a female doctor, which would moot the embarrassment of undressing so completely.

The one throwing around smut is Donohue himself gratuitously sending the picture to business people who have not seen it or asked to see it.  If this works, I will be very disappointed in the Kellogg executives, and I won't be flying Delta for a long time apparently.  If they aren't smart enough to realize their actions are harming the free flow of political discussion, I certainly don't want to put my life into the hands of their business during the tricky art of flying.  Do they choose their pilots for their skills or for adherence to a hard right doctrine against women?

American GOP Posturing Over Post Birth Abortion Remarks From Italian Scientists

Melozzo di Forli's Angels, Sacristy St. Marks, Loreto, Italy.

It is a bit weird for Italians to be promoting such ideas, but it is also unlikely to sway Americans

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"Sneaky Italian Scientists are going to slide into the US and start aborting new born babies (aka "4th Trimester" fetuses)" is the new meme from the hard right.  Or maybe they're going to convince Americans to start killing their own newborns.

Who knows, but much is implied since, if they come right out and say what they are claiming will happen most Americans will laugh themselves silly and then the 30% of Americans who really fall for such wild allegations won't send right wing Christian groups and
GOP candidates big donations to keep the evil bogeyman (and woman) at bay.

See hysterical report:
Pro Life Action League report  "Abortions in the Fourth Trimester: Why Not?"

Profiles:
Dr Alberto Giubilini  (See Biography section lower on page)

Francesca Minerva

If you believe those two are going to get post birth abortions going in the US, I have a Jaguar in mind that you can buy me, and I will be forever grateful!  God loves it when you buy a poor person a Jag and he will reward you 20 times for it.  (Actually the Bible does say that those who give to the needy will be rewarded in return with more than they gave, but you don't see Christians giving like they believe in that part of the Bible.)

Two Scientists who were educated and likely born and raised in Italy, make some statements about post birth abortions and the posturing right acts as if it's already enthroned in law or that Obama is going to pass a bill in his next term. 

That is how the American Right Wing pushes their fascism-lite.

This, obviously, isn't going to become mainstream American law or even accepted quirky behavior.  It is a non starter.

Even if the GOP manages to get hormonal birth control outlawed so a lot of extra babies are born, you will see a likely rise in cost for caring for such children by the state as many families will have to give them up.  You'll be footing the bill for that, Dear Taxpayer.

 Years later you will see a horrific exponential rise in crime, making most cities and even towns and rural areas unsafe.

But you won't see "4th Trimester" abortions; not as an accepted practice.  (and yes, there are those now that kill their kids.  The Church hasn't been able to stop those people, even now.

The claim that "4th Trimester" abortion practice will ever really be acccepted in the US is just more of the Nazi talk from the right. Their tendency is to make outrageous claims to try to get people's rights taken away, and to collect money based on the fears those claims create in certain susceptible folk.

 The GOP is now even more effective than the Third Reich.  In Germany, much of the church just tried to hide from the onerous effects of the Nazis, while today's American Evangelicals and even the Catholics jump right in.

But God says: "ROFLMAO!  Get real Douchbags.  It ain't gonna happen."