"So they've shown the white flag. Unusual for a wacko left wing group."
Nuance.
The ad was designed to be taken off the air. They did it only to raise awareness and to be able to accuse the media of being to the right.
If that is true, their strategy just continues to make them look more and more pathetic. I hope they never "get up to speed".
You might be right. However, that is a stupid strategy on their part and it helps us. Only a hard-core pro-abort who's in their camp will believe that a lawyer working for the Justice Department wrote a brief saying, "The official government position is ' Feel free to kill all the abortionists,'" much less believe that the big bad evil right wing media suppressed this truthful and even-handed ad. They're also going to have a mess of trouble lumping factcheck.org into the right wing camp, much less MSNBC and NPR.
Nope, tactics that mainly make your base feel what passes for righteous anger on their side are really, really dumb. They could have played up the uncertainty on Roberts' abortion views, and instead they established that they love killing babies so much they will accuse someone of being a terrorist just because he discussed a fine point of law that would not have made it any harder to kill a baby. They have also revealed that they have nothing that can make this guy look extremist, even when put through their MinTruth twisting machine. They have really, really screwed up.