Washington Post Offers Cover For Komen And GOProud’s Hypocrisy

Whatever the opposite of the Midas Touch is, Susan G. Komen for the Cure — including Senior VP Karen Handel and her boss and Komen founder Nancy Brinker — have it. Aside from permanently ruining their own reputation, Komen is now ruining everything it touches.

Take, for example The Washington Post. On Thursday, in a story titled “Komen gives new explanation for cutting funds to Planned Parenthood,” the Post’s Lucy Shackelford and Theresa Vargas quote one “Chris Barron, 38, of the District,” as if he were merely some passer-by:

Chris Barron, 38, of the District has participated in the Komen race in the city since 2002. For years, Barron said, friends in his conservative circle have been concerned about donating because of Komen’s affiliation with Planned Parenthood. But many of them set aside their political views to contribute.

“Now, the left is unwilling to do the same thing,” he said, calling it “disheartening.”

“This is not the place for them to wage a political fight over abortion. . . . Quite honestly, I can’t believe there aren’t more people outraged at the way Planned Parenthood is behaving.”

As most people know, Chris Barron, 38, is actually Chris Barron, co-founder of GOProud, the radical Tea Party gay Republicans group that spends its time finding ways — often, unsavory, and possibly fraudulent — to get attention.

(For more on Chris Barron, read: “Do Gay Liberals Really Hate Gay Conservatives — Enough To Gay Bash Them?“)

What many don’t know, is that Chris Barron before starting GOProud, was a senior official at the Log Cabin Republicans, and left them because he didn’t think they were accomplishing anything. After his exit, the Log Cabin Republicans successfully brought a seven-year suit against the federal government on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, forcing the military to take action and recognize that a legislative repeal was preferable to a judicial one for them.

But what almost no one remembers is that Chris Barron, 38, used to work for Planned Parenthood. Today, award-winning blogger Joe Jervis, aka, Joe.My.God., perfectly captured the revolting hypocrisy of Chris Barron, 38, in this piece (right) which offers a recent tweet from Barron, and, below, the 2005 announcement that heralded his hiring by Planned Parenthood:

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America has hired an official from the Log Cabin Republicans to head its Republican Party outreach efforts.

The tweet from Barron reads, “Giving in to Planned Parenthood is like negotiating with terrorists. It only encourages them.”

The Washington Post should be ashamed of its attempt to offer cover to both Komen and GOProud. You may want to tell them as much. Feel free to contact them here. I did, and sent this email:

A WaPo story titled “Komen gives new explanation for cutting funds to Planned Parenthood,” from 02/02/12 — although oddly there is no date on the web version of the piece — amazingly does not at all correctly identify the background of a person your ataff writers quoted, removing credibility from the piece.

The URL is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/komen-gives-new-explanation-for-cutting-funds-to-planned-parenthood/2012/02/02/gIQAkTnklQ_story_1.html
At the end of the story, your writers quote “Chris Barron, 38, of the District,” as if he were a mere average resident.

Barron, your writers must know, is a former Planned Parenthood employee, and a former Log Cabin Republican senior official.

http://www.covenantnews.com/newswire/archives/016371.html

He also is now the co-founder of GOProud, a Tea Party gay Republicans group.

That you would not properly identify him, especially given his disparaging comments, is beyond reproach.

Millions of your readers now have an improper understanding of the story and why he made his comments, and you MUST issue a correction.

David Badash

founder and editor,
The New Civil Rights Movement
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

 

Apparently, the only entity that has benefited from Susan G. Komen’s decision to drop Planned Parenthood has been Planned Parenthood itself, which took in over $3 million this week from Americans who finally realized that the Republican war on women wasn’t only coming from the GOP, but was a well-orchestrated attack planned by a consortium of political, former political, and private organization officials, including none other than former senior Bush official Ari Fleischer.

We should thank Komen from their pathetic attempt to rob women of their right to choose, and to shutter Planned Parenthood. Americans have finally seen the light.