Don't ever play poker against Claire Shipman. Anyone who can keep a straight face while claiming, as she did, that 'Women's Voices. Women Vote' is "non-partisan," can surely bluff you out of a pot while sitting on a busted flush.Posted on 10/17/2006 8:12:30 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Don't ever play poker against Claire Shipman. Anyone who can keep a straight face while claiming, as she did, that 'Women's Voices. Women Vote' is "non-partisan," can surely bluff you out of a pot while sitting on a busted flush.
On this morning's Good Morning America, ABC's Shipman narrated a segment spotlighting WVWV's efforts to get single women voters to the polls. Since it is obvious that single women lean heavily Dem, voting for Democrats by a more than 2/3 margin as Dem pollster Celinda Lake acknowledged, my BS-detector started screeching when I heard Shipman slip in her "non-partisan" claim.
I went to WVWV web site, and checked the bios of its key members.
WVWV kept things cagey when it came to describing the background of its Founder and President, Page S. Gardner. We're told that she has "twenty years experience as a political and communications manager and strategist, Ms. Gardner has worked at senior levels for the most competitive presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial, and congressional campaigns in all parts of the country. Ms. Gardner also has managed some of the most hotly debated national public policy issue campaigns, including those related to reproductive rights, civil rights, national budget priorities, technology and trade."
Any doubt that those campaigns were Democratic ones, and that she was on the liberal side of "reproductive rights" and other issues were erased in reading the bios of other board members.
Executive Director Joe Goode comes directly from Dem Stanley Greenberg's polling and political consulting firm, and formerly worked for Dem Congressman David Price of NC.
VP Anna Greenberg also comes from - and is presumably related to - the Stanley Greenberg firm, and has a history of working for leftist groups including NARAL and the Economic Policy Institute.
Board member Ruth Ferguson worked for the Dem speaker of the Massachusetts House of Reprentatives and worked to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
Every other officer or board member has similar deep Dem roots.
The clincher? WVWV is a project of The Tides Foundation [see #14], the organization founded to promote a variety of leftist causes whose driving financial force is . . . Teresa Kerry.
Some further digging reveals that WVWV is directly promoting leftist politics. On its FAQ page, WVWV suggests that people who want to get involved "download the National Council of Women's Organizations voter's guide." I did, and found a predictable compendium of leftist position-mongering on everything from affirmative action to abortion. Query whether promoting a partisan voter's guide bring's WVWV's non-partisan tax-exempt status into question.
GMA focused on a series of provocative PSAs in which single celebrity women describe "their first time." You might think they're talking about their first experience with sex, but no, it's their first time in the ballot box they have in mind. Ha-ha.
But speaking of advertising, how about a little truth-in-advertising from ABC when it comes to the groups whose efforts it promotes?
GMA/NewsBusters phony-non-partisan ping to Today show list.
Should be, "Womyn's Voices, Womyn Vote."
Claire Shipman is just another lying Democrat scumbag.
Surprise, surprise.
That's excellent!
That reminds me, where is "Non Partisan" Rock the Vote this time around? I guess their "non partisan" cohort packed up and moved to France.
....they're leftists. I haven't met a single leftist yet that didn't describe themselves as "non partisan" or "unbiased" even at a peace march/abortion rally/amnesty for illegals get together/etc...
You can say the same thing about george stuffoneupyourbutticus.
LLS
Therein lies the problem:
They are not lying, which is why they manage to do it so frequently and with such a straight face.
They genuinely believe they are centrists, and some even think they are right of center. That is also why anyone to the right of them is an extremist right winger.
Hey, glgb!!! Rush is talking about you and your article right now!
BUMP!!!
Rush is talking about this article and quoting from it RIGHT NOW! Turn it on.
BUMP
Cool! Thanks for bringing to my attention.
GLGB,
Great work as always amd congrats to the mention by El Rushbo.
He gave you full credit during his segue into several audio clips.
If you are dumb enough to make bad choices that directly influence your life (like getting pregnant by a loser), you are certainly NOT smart enough to vote.
Sit on your welfare butt, smoke, drink, whine, complain, but vote? Yeah, sure.
Oh yes, really funny... the thing is getting them to actually vote... that's gonna be a laugh.
Well you know all the alphabet networks are all about full disclosure, right? Wrong!
Well on that note, this looks to me like a good place to click on the old pledge bar to make a donation to the forum. Thanks GMA!!
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