The Washington Times Insider has
an article today (free registration required) that the controversial (read: full of lies) ad that NARAL was running on CNN and several local stations has been pulled. The best part of the article was the second paragraph:
"We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record," Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, wrote in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter.
That's got to be the understatement of the year. After
the flogging the ad received from FactCheck, an independent group that reviewed the ad, you wonder how she can say that it was "misconstrued" with a straight face. Spector, who has a stellar record with NARAL, had written that the ad was counterproductive.
California Senator Barbara Boxer apparently missed the memo on the ad. In a
speech she gave at Golden Gate University, she said "Roberts sided with some of the nation’s most violent anti-choice extremists." While she at least tries to come up with some facts to prove it, she's still wrong. And she doesn't care.
