{"id":184717,"date":"2012-02-07T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/07\/i-guess-she-could-not-handel-the-pressure\/"},"modified":"2012-02-07T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T01:24:00","slug":"i-guess-she-could-not-handel-the-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/07\/i-guess-she-could-not-handel-the-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"I Guess She Could Not Handel the Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, the right wing hack hired by Komen as their VP for public policy, Karen Handel, has>called it quits, or as Erin Gloria Ryan so clearly states, Noted Liar Karen Handel Defensively Resigns From Komen<\/a>, with a self-indulgent letter of resignation where she denies it being about politics.<\/p>\n

I’d say, “Cry me a river,” but the letter was more like “Water Music”.*<\/sup><\/p>\n

The thing is, the folks at Komen knew that she was a right wing political hack.  Not only had she campaigned for governor on defunding Planned Parenthood before Komen hired her, but she also has a long history of voter suppression and civil rights violations<\/a> so bad that the Bush Justice Department called her out.<\/p>\n

She was clearly a right wing political hack, and Komen chose<\/b> to let Ari Fleischer pimp her for a cushy office job, and they knew what she was.<\/p>\n

There are lots of better breast cancer charities out there. <\/p>\n

Even ignoring politics, the corporate pink-washing Komen does for companies probably contribute to higher cancer rates (KFC? Seriously?) should look elsewhere.<\/p>\n

When you add in their politics, any woman who gives them money is like a chicken donating to Colonel Sanders, because they are a a petri dish for right wing zealots who think that the problem with the world is that, “women [are] not being properly punished for having unapproved sex<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>OK, that’s it for the Handel puns.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, the right wing hack hired by Komen as their VP for public policy, Karen Handel, has>called it quits, or as Erin Gloria Ryan so clearly states, Noted Liar Karen Handel Defensively Resigns From Komen, with a self-indulgent letter of resignation where she denies it being about politics. I’d say, “Cry me a river,” but …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,970,969,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-corruption","category-evil","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}