{"id":184726,"date":"2012-02-04T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/04\/seriously-susan-g-komen-is-looking-worse-and-worse\/"},"modified":"2012-02-04T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T00:35:00","slug":"seriously-susan-g-komen-is-looking-worse-and-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/04\/seriously-susan-g-komen-is-looking-worse-and-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously, Susan G. Komen is Looking Worse and Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like their latest gaffe, in which they defunded Planned Parenthood, was <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2012\/02\/03\/418797\/exclusive-ari-fleischer-komen-planned-parenthood\/\">masterminded by Ari Fleischer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush and prominent right-wing pundit, was secretly involved in the Komen Foundation\u2019s strategy regarding Planned Parenthood. Fleischer personally interviewed candidates for the position of \u201cSenior Vice President for Communications and External Relations\u201d at Komen last December. According to a source with first-hand knowledge, Fleischer drilled prospective candidates during their interviews on how they would handle the controversy about Komen\u2019s relationship with Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>Fleischer\u2019s relationship with Komen and the Planned Parenthood controversy was previously undisclosed. He confirmed to ThinkProgress his recent role in filling a key communication position at Komen. Fleischer stressed, however, another communications firm (Ogilvy PR) was retained by Komen to deal with crisis communications over the last few days and he has not been involved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, this just get better and better.<\/p>\n<p>Komen for the Cure isn&#8217;t a charity, it&#8217;s yet another Republican full employment program <b>masquerading<\/b> as a charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like their latest gaffe, in which they defunded Planned Parenthood, was masterminded by Ari Fleischer: Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush and prominent right-wing pundit, was secretly involved in the Komen Foundation\u2019s strategy regarding Planned Parenthood. Fleischer personally interviewed candidates for the position of \u201cSenior Vice President for Communications and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184726"}],"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=184726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}