Quote of the Day - Ed Cameron Edition

"Are you human?"

Ed Cameron, Prosecutor of Dr. Kermit Gosnell 

I am sure he is human, what I question is does he have a soul?  

Quote of the Day - Jack McMahon Edition

“If we are going in this room to say a baby is born alive because it moves one time without any other movement, that is ludicrous,”

Jack McMahon, Attorney for Kermit Gosnell, and apparently a man without a soul.   

Finally, Some Truth from the Left on Gosnell Trial

“For what it’s worth, I do think that those of us on the Left have made a decision not to cover this trial because we worry that it’ll compromise abortion rights.  Whether you agree with abortion or not, I do think there’s a direct connection between the media’s failure to cover this and our own political commitments on the Left.”

Mark Lamont Hill  

Of course anyone with brain already knew this.  Abortion must be protected at all costs.  If people heard what abortion really is, the meme "it is just a bunch of cells" won't be as effective.  

Jennifer Rubin Tweets that Boston Bombing Local Story

Jennifer Rubin ‏@JRubinBlogger12h

Not writing on Boston. It is a local crime story for now

Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin opened a can of worms yesterday afternoon after the news hit that a double bombing occurred near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.  She did this in response to the lefts argument on the lack of coverage in the Gosnell murder trial.  The left has bent over backwards to say that Gosnell is local story and didn't warrant national coverage.  

I actually was having a back and forth with someone on twitter over the weekend about this very topic, I asked her if the name Casey Anthony rang a bell, and also asked her to google the name Jodi Arias and see how many hits she gets.  Her response to me was only that she doesn't waste her time engaging "antis".  Well when you consider that this argument cannot be defended in any shape or form.  We have a long history as a country of giving criminal trials loads of media coverage, OJ and Charles Manson just to name two more.  It is a justification and a very poor one at that.  

Was this in poor taste?  Yes, obviously it was.  But, there is truth in the point that she was trying to make.  Kermit Gosnell is on trial for 8 murders, seven of which were newborn babies who had their spinal cords cuts.  He committed acts of absolute barbarism, there is no other way to describe what he did.  The acts of Jeffrey Dahmer were put over the airwaves on a regular basis, and that too was a "local trial".  There is one reason and one reason only that the Gosnell trial has not been widely reported, it is about abortion.  A sacred "right" to most people on the left.  If more people heard that this type of things are happening in this country on the scale that they are happening we just may have a "national discussion" on abortion rights.  The media have decided to protect that over doing their jobs.  

If people hear this story, they just may put political pressure on state governments to more closely monitor abortion clinics.  If people hear this story they will ask themselves why were the complaints against this man ignored for so long?  If people hear this story they will ask how a clinic that was right out in the open and run by a man who was considered a good man in his community was allowed to run for so long.  If people hear this story they just may ask themselves why they support legal abortion.  If people hear the story of the baby that was screaming before being murdered they may just question the mantra of the left that abortion is not used as a form of birth control.  If people hear the joke reportedly made by Gosnell that one of the babies was large enough to walk him to the bus stop, they just may to look inside themselves and ask why this allowed to happen in this country.  

People may just start to question the usual memes you are told about abortion.   Legal, safe, and rare.  One of the doctors that the prosecution put on the stand as an "expert" on abortion said he has performed 40,000 abortions during his 33 year practice.  There is nothing rare about that number.  That is a number that is hard to wrap your head around.  There is nothing safe about what Gosnell and his goons did.  Nor can this be considered "healthcare", another one of the things that left trots out when talking about this topic.  

People will have to ask themselves about the racial overtones to this story.  Gosnell, a black man, treated his white suburban "patients" differently and better than the minority poorer counterparts.  People may start to realize that abortion is actually big business in this country.  There is loads of money to be made.  There are people out there who profit at the hands of women who are making very difficult choices.  People may actually take a look at the documentary made about this case where women describe how they were told by Gosnell that abortion was a normal thing, ain't no thing.  Have two, have five across your lifetime.  What's the diff?  They will hear the women who were victims of Gosnell and how he isn't being tried for things that he has done to most of them.  

Again, this was in poor taste.  But the bar was set last week by the left.  Apparently the "right" to abortion is more important than giving the people of this country the truth about abortion in this country.  If we start asking questions, they are afraid of the answers that some will come up with.  

Main Stream Media Starts Reporting on the Trial of Kermit Gosnell - Video

I actually thought Anderson Cooper did a half way decent job.  He even got into the race issues in this story, which should be told.  Why did this doctor treat the white women differently than the minority women?  
But the truth is this, had this story been as widely reported as say the Jodi Arias trial, the discussion about abortion "rights" would be as hot as a topic as gun rights.  We don't want that to happen do we media?  

Quote of the Day - Dave Weigel Edition

Social conservatives are largely right about the Gosnell story. Maybe it's not a raw political story. It's just the story of a potential mass murderer who operated for decades as government regulators did nothing.

Dave Weigel on the lack of media coverage of the Gosnell murder trail.  

We hear endless reports on the trial of that loony lady in  Phoenix that stabbed her boyfriend repeatedly, but virtually no coverage of newborn babies, totally defenseless, having their spinal cords cut.