{"id":185640,"date":"2014-09-19T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/19\/normally-i-do-not-give-a-rats-ass-about-miss-america-but\/"},"modified":"2014-09-19T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T01:02:00","slug":"normally-i-do-not-give-a-rats-ass-about-miss-america-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/19\/normally-i-do-not-give-a-rats-ass-about-miss-america-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Normally, I do not Give a Rats Ass About Miss America, but \u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that the right wing Christofascists are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/09\/16\/its_not_a_shocker_that_miss_america_worked_with_planned_parenthood\/\">freaking out because the new Miss America worked for Planned Parenthood<\/a> is positively delicious:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">If you thought her less than mind-blowing performance of \u201cHappy\u201d had Miss America fans in a snit, wait till they find out where Kira Kazantsev used to work.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The newly crowned beauty queen has opponents of reproductive choice up in arms this week over revelations that her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes a stint with Planned Parenthood. LifeNews\u2019 Steven Ertelt fumed Monday, \u201cThe woman representing the nation as the new Miss America interned for the very organization that has killed millions of Americans in abortions.\u201d Other conservative sites have also quickly found themselves up in arms over Kazantsev\u2019s past \u2013 Truth Revolt gasps that \u201cOur new Miss America once interned for Planned Parenthood and she displays it proudly for all the world to see,\u201d while Live Action News notes that \u201cThe new Miss America is an abortion supporter who worked for Planned Parenthood\u201d and lists \u201cher job duties at the company that snuffs out of the lives of young baby girls.\u201d Right on cue, the outrage has now spilled over onto social media, with various patriotic Americans declaring sentiments like, \u201cShe should\u2019ve been disqualified for Miss America.\u201d Because the only choice for Miss America is an anti-choice Miss America.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In her LinkedIn profile, Kazantsev mentions a three-month internship with a Hempstead branch of the organization last year. She says she \u201cAssisted delivery of programs in local public schools, teaching children about mutual respect &amp; self-esteem\u201d and \u201cConducted research on Planned Parenthood Education.\u201d Sounds like baby killing to me! More damningly still, she\u2019s also interned for Kirsten Gillibrand, who notoriously holds the public position that \u201ca woman\u2019s medical decisions should always be made between her, her family, and her doctor \u2013 not by politicians.\u201d And as an intern for Solidarity Strategies, Kazantsev worked on political campaigns including that of pro-choice congresswoman Annie Kuster.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Awww \u2026\u2026\u2026 The poor little Talibaptist&#8217;s feelings are hurt.<\/p>\n<p>You like a hot cup of f%$# you with that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that the right wing Christofascists are freaking out because the new Miss America worked for Planned Parenthood is positively delicious: If you thought her less than mind-blowing performance of \u201cHappy\u201d had Miss America fans in a snit, wait till they find out where Kira Kazantsev used to work.The newly crowned beauty queen has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,971,1092,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-civil-rights","category-culture","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185640"}],"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=185640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}