Time Capsule: Mike Wallace hammers Margaret Sanger in 1957 interview

LifeSiteNews ^ | 12/3/10 | Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

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Asked if she believes in sin, Sanger tells Wallace: “I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world, that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically, delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things, just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest sin that a people can commit.”

This monster is surely burning in Hell.

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[Paleo Conservative]

I can’t imagine Mike Wallace doing a similar interview 30 years later.

[Mr. Silverback]

Bump for later.

[wagglebee]

He would have asked if she was afraid of pro-life "terrorists."

[umgud]

She is now as famous as Che’ in the eyes of the leftists. Truly one of their icons.

[Red_Devil 232]

Not with the up front commercial!

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[Erasmus]

Back in the late 50’s, Mike’s interview chair was the hottest seat in television. No matter who you were, you had to be crazy to go on his interview show.

[FrdmLvr]

bookmarking this one for later! I have to say, what an iconic Phillip Morris cigarette commercial lead-in to the show! Makes me miss the 50’s & 60’s. Hey...didn’t Don Draper have the Phillip Morris account at Sterling, Cooper? Wonder if that was his brain child? ;)

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[Lancey Howard]

She was a racist as well.

Yep, she is the perfect icon for the scumbag left.

[patriot preacher]

Back when Mike Wallace ALMOST knew what it was like to be a journalist...

[Bronzy]

I listened to the interview. There was no mention of her eugenics issue. She seemed to say that adults that did not want to have children should be given that choice.

[Gondring]

...although the leading questions are still the same as these days! “You're not giving me the answer I want...don't you mean...”

Caliche is hard but isn't “harder than any rock” but I have to say that she comes across better in this interview than she does in many writings. Mike Wallace's presentation of her 1942 words doesn't match what she said. By her words, the violation of Christian morality would occur either way, but the use of birth control would prevent birth or abortion.

The things Mike Wallace presents as the Roman Catholic Church position on natural law would mean that the Church should be against low-calorie foods, or perhaps poor-nutrition foods like cotton candy (as violating natural law of “eating is for an organism to gain nutrition”). And how can anyone say with a straight face in the next breath that celibacy is in accordance with natural law?!?

[Gondring]

I listened to the interview. There was no mention of her eugenics issue.

Only obliquely, when discussing the sin issue.

She seemed to say that adults that did not want to have children should be given that choice.

Yes, and such a decision is not for them to have. That right is to be co-opted by the heirarchy of the Catholic Church, according to some.

[Gondring]

And how about her comment on picking up smoking?!

[rabidralph]

I especially enjoyed Mike Wallace’s testimonial for Phillip Morris.

[Lorianne]

Perhaps. But Sanger was more intersted in the government interfering in that decision by couples.

[Lorianne]

Intersting interview.
Thanks for posting this.