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Salon.com takes notice
Salon.com’s Broadsheet just posted a rumination on our coverage of Tiller’s clinic, the abortion issue, and its consequences in Kansas. You can find it here. In sum, Judy Berman writes, “each part of the clip is upsetting in its own way.” Certainly what we saw in Kansas will provide a big wake-up call for liberals, [...]
Kansas as a battleground state for abortion
Inevitably, the press has recognized that Kansas has an unusually combative culture when it comes to the abortion debate. The AP filed a story laying out the recent history. Here is an excerpt:
In part, it’s a power struggle — conservative Republicans, many of them evangelical Christian, battling over abortion and other hot-button social issues with [...]
Lake of Fire
Dr. Tiller’s murder has truly flayed open the national wounds over the abortion issue. Conversations on our Facebook page are fascinating but have become rather heated and our YouTube page is starting to resemble a bathroom stall at a truck stop. The act of killing a man who’s saved so many women’s lives and ended [...]
Dr. Tiller in context
Here’s a video – really an expanded scene from “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” – which gives some background on Dr. Tiller, his clinic, and his significance to the abortion issue and its reverberations into American politics. The Pro-Life movement made his clinic the focus of protests which, in 1991, sparked a conservative takeover of [...]
Still more thoughts on Dr. Tiller
The discussion on our Facebook page has been fascinating, here are some excerpts:
Connie Volkman at 12:23pm May 31
And what’s the matter with the so called Christians? They are not the Christinas that I associate with.
Alex MacKenzie at 12:28pm May 31
damn
Angel Fasulo at 12:29pm May 31
WOW
Patrice Lamoree at 12:32pm [...]
More thoughts on Dr. Tiller
Everyone with a stake in the abortion issue seems to have an opinion on Dr. Tiller’s murder and what it means. The Wichita Eagle has been collecting some choice responses. Here are some selections:
Operation Rescue
We are shocked at this morning’s disturbing news that Mr. Tiller was gunned down. Operation Rescue has worked for years through [...]
Controversial abortion doctor George Tiller shot to death in Wichita
Dr. Tiller was gunned down today as he was heading into church in Wichita.
Dr. George Tiller is one of the few doctors in the country willing to perform certain kinds of late-term abortions – women fly in from all over the world to see him. This alone would make him controversial, especially in a town [...]
Chat completed on Firedoglake
Whew! We just pounded our keyboards and hit refresh through a spirited and furious ninety-minute web chat on Firedoglake. For now, you can read the chat here. If that link fails, try here, where it’ll be permanently archived. Thanks to Lisa Derrick and everybody else at FDL, we had a great time answering smart questions!
Firedoglake to host Laura and Joe for Movie Night 5/18/09
Firedoglake, a leading progressive blog, is hosting Laura and Joe for Movie Night, a real-time discussion via the web about movies with a social or political bent.
Past guests include Margaret Cho, John Cusack, Danny Elfman, Gini Reticker and Janet Bryant, Rachel Goslins, David Mogiliani and Stefan Forbes, so we are some of the least famous [...]
Politics on Film Festival screening
Last night, we screened the movie at the first ever Politics on Film Festival in Washington, D.C. The venue was the Navy Memorial Auditorium, a very nice theater with great big crystal-clear projection. In this age of viewing movies on iPhones and digital downloads, it’s still fantastic to see this movie on a big screen, [...]
Twittering from Politics on Film
OK, so we’re going to try to Twitter from the Politics on Film Festival. We’re a little short-handed because Laura had to stay home with our 16-month old son Milo, who’s not feeling well. So Joe is travelling alone and new at Twitter. Our screen name is WTMWK. Here is our Twitter home page.