Abortion Rights Group Withdraws Roberts Ad ["We regret that many people have misconstrued our..

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[Sub-Driver]

Abortion Rights Group Withdraws Roberts Ad

By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes ago

After a week of protests by conservatives, an abortion rights group said Thursday night it is withdrawing a television advertisement linking Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to violent anti-abortion activists.

"We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record," said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

"Unfortunately, the debate over that advertisement has become a distraction from the serious discussion we hoped to have with the American public," she said in a letter Thursday to Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., who had urged the group to withdraw the ad.

Specter, himself an abortion-rights supporter as well as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will question Roberts next month, earlier Thursday had called the ad "blatantly untrue and unfair."

The NARAL ad criticizes Roberts and links him with violent anti-abortion protesters because of the anti-abortion briefs he worked on as a government lawyer.

"The NARAL advertisement is not helpful to the pro-choice cause which I support," Specter said in a letter to Keenan.

Keenan's response said the group will replace the ad with one that "examines Mr. Roberts' record on several points, including his advocacy for overturning Roe v. Wade, his statement questioning the right to privacy and his arguments against using a federal civil rights law to protect women and their doctors and nurses from those who use blockades and intimidation."

[Past Your Eyes]

Misconstrue this:
You NARAL creeps are some of the people I'm talking about when I post this tag line.

[WoodstockCat]

Look, everyone, it's a "Durbin" apology!

[Sloth]

Uh, so... how was it supposed to be "construed"?

[Christian4Bush]

"We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record,"

Sounds like another Durbin-ish unapology apology...

[tiredoflaundry]

Sounds like another Durbin-ish unapology apology...

IMHO It's just plain NOVAK! ;-)

[Prime Choice]

"We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record," said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL.

There was nothing "misconstrued," little Miss Murderer. Your organization deliberately distorted Roberts' record to accomodate your warped interpretation of reality.

I so look forward to the day your genocidal organization is nothing more than a terrible footnote in human history.

[Fatuncle]

"We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record."

Trans: We regret being caught in a bare-faced lie.

[airborne]

If the Democrats and their fascist buddies in the UN don't get control of the internet soon, freedom and liberty will grow beyond their ability to lie their way into power.

The rise of the blogger is the death knell for tyranny.

[Chickensoup]

We regret that many people have misconstrued our....


We regret that many people have understood our lies...

[Brilliant]

"What we meant to say is that this guy is a cold-blooded baby killer with no conscience..... Er, ah.... No, that's actually us, isn't it?"

[Archon of the East]

misconstrued my gluteous maximus.

[Chickensoup]

Would you keep us informed?

[T'wit]

The meaning of "NARAL" had escaped me, so I went to track it down -- and had to go through thirty or forty Google listings before I could figure it out. Now, this is very odd! What are they hiding? Why are they hiding it? Doesn't baby killing sell these days? I looked at the group's own web site, even its annual report, and they don't tell you!

What I find (at last) is National Abortion Rights Reproduction Action League, which works out to "NARRAL," but let's not be picky. "Reproduction Action" sounds like singles bars, but let's not be picky about that, either.

They say they've cancelled, but the national NARAL site is still advertising its nasty ad about Judge Roberts and telling us why it is accurate (give or take a few dozen lies). Their right tongue knoweth not what their left tongue is saying.

[InterestedQuestioner]

Didn't they spend $500,000 on that add? That's half a mil less for some pro-death candidate in the next election go-round. As far as I'm concerned, money spent by pro-abortionists on an add campaign that gets pulled is pro-abort money well spent.

[gate2wire]

Understood. All I mean is they will certainly try again.

[King Prout]

"misconstrued"?!?

who the hell do they think they are kidding?

[Dan Evans]

Ann Coulter said she was disappointed that the ad was pulled because she was enjoying watching Democrats flee from it like rats from a sinking ship.

[badpacifist]

AWWWWW..Naral you made a mistake? Well do what comes naturally. Blame someone else and then just KILL IT!

[Chickensoup]

Does this show have a live feed from the internet? I cannot find one.

[hardworking]

Well, they can be 'miscontrued' all they choose to delude themselves, but the fact remains that they were forced to pull the ad! Way to go girls. You rock. What a bunch of morons.