Posted on 05/16/2010 8:26:19 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Deacon Greg Kandra was an interesting presence on the CBS staff in the Katie Couric era. He edited her blog Couric & Co. as he was ordained a Catholic deacon in 2007. At his Beliefnet blog The Deacon's Bench, he responded to the blog Creative Minority Report claiming Couric is a modern Margaret Sanger, the controversial eugenics-endorsing founder of Planned Parenthood. (The label came from Couric's recent subsidize-the-contraceptives commentary.) I expected Kandra might offer some defense to the CBS star. Instead, Kandra wrote:
CMR calls Katie a "modern Margaret Sanger."
I know what CMR is talking about. And boy, do they have Katie nailed.
True story. A few years ago, when Katie first came to CBS News, I worked as the editor of her blog "Couric & Co." One afternoon, I had a meeting with her in her office overlooking the CBS newsroom. Her suite of offices is gorgeous: white-on-white, with a marble desk and gorgeous black-and-white prints on the walls.
(Think "The Devil Wears Prada," and you'll get the picture. Staffers used to refer to it as "The White Palace" or, more derisively, "White Castle.") On the back wall is a lovely, dramatic picture of Jackie Kennedy and her children. Other iconic women on the walls included Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Audrey Hepburn. When Katie arrived for our meeting, I was admiring the pictures, but noticed one woman who was unfamiliar to me. "Who's that?," I asked.
"Margaret Sanger," she replied.
And I think that tells you everything you need to know.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/05/16/former-couric-employee-cbs-says-couric-had-margaret-sanger-picture-offic#ixzz0o9adC1xP
What a coupla cuties.
They sure make murder hip, don’t they?
Wow. Doesn’t surprise me but that woman was a racist who wanted to use abortion and eugenics to get rid of the poor white trash and minorities.
No wonder she hated Sarah
right
Sanger was evil.
Pesky Katie will get all eternity to scream right alongside Margie. ... Now won’t that be Hell!
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If you include in that gang Speaker Pelosi, Senator Mikulski, Representative Kucinich, Vice President Biden and Senate Leader Daschle, that'd be a really wonderful company.
No surprise. The diversity posters at Vanderbilt came down last year. Fat, Dumb, and forced Socialism is no way to go through life.
“We got the bubbleheaded bleach-blonde, comes on at 5
She can tell you about abortion with a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when babies die, give us dirty laundry”
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”
— Margaret Sanger
The left are projecting themselves when they call us racists. They’re obsessed with race.
Sadly, Barry and Margaret Johnson Goldwater held Sanger in high esteem. Probably the Bushes too, at least Prescott and now maybe Laura.
Couric’s role models growing up were Gloria Steinem, a journalist and women’s rights advocate, and Barbara Walters, the first female co-anchor of NBC’s Today Show and current host of The View. Couric feels that Walters really “paved the way for women in journalism.”
Lining the walls of Couric’s office are pictures of inspiring women like former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, activist *Sojourner Truth, and former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
*Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Her best-known speech, Ain’t I a Woman?, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
In 1870, Truth tried to secure land grants from the federal government to former slaves, a project she pursued for seven years without success. While in Washington, D.C., she had a meeting with President Ulysses S. Grant in the White House. In 1872, she returned to Battle Creek and tried to vote in the presidential election, but was turned away at the polling place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth
My My, the Perky Racist Katie Couric.
*Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York.”
“born into slavery in Swartekill, New York.” This just can’t be true./sarc The lame stream media along with Hollywood and other knee pad liberals and academia have propagandized over and over that only in the South were there racist slave owners. A slave born in New York?
Do they mean to say that there were “yankee” racists?
Born Isabella Baumfree around 1791, from a young age, this enslaved girl was bought and sold several times by slaveowners in New York. She married an enslaved man named Thomas, and together they had five children. On July 4, 1827, the New York State Legislature emancipated her, and she moved with her son to New York City, where she worked as a live-in domestic. She became involved in a religious cult known as the Kingdom, whose leader, Matthias, beat her and assigned her the heaviest workload.
in 1851, she gave her infamous “Ain’t I A Woman” speech at a Women’s Rights Convention. The plight of freed slaves then caught her attention, and she championed the idea of a colony for freed slaves in the West, where they would have a chance to become self-supporting and self-reliant.
James and Elizabeth Baumfree, who were owned by *Colonel Hardenbergh. After the death of the colonel and his son, Truth was sold at auction in 1806 for $100 and a flock of sheep. She was only nine years-old at the time—a child. She was sold three more times in the next few years and at twenty, Truth married an older slave named Thomas with whom she had four children. (She earlier gave birth to a daughter, fathered by another slave who was owned by a neighboring farmer.)
*Founder of Auburn, New York. A noted commander in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Hardenbergh was known ever after by his military title.
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In 1806, Hardenbergh sold Truth for $100 to John Neely, near Kingston, New York. She suffered many hardships at the hands of Neely, whom she later described as cruel and harsh and who once beat her with a bundle of rods. Neely sold her in 1808, for $105, to Martinus Schryver of Kingston, a tavern keeper, who owned her for 18 months. Schryver sold her in 1810, for $175, to John Dumont of New Paltz, New York.[2] Although this fourth owner was kindly disposed toward her, his wife found numerous ways to harass Truth and make her life more difficult.
Around 1815, Truth met and fell in love with a slave named Robert from a neighboring farm. Robert’s owner forbade the relationship; he did not want his slave to have children with a slave he did not own, because he would not own the children. Robert was savagely beaten and Truth never saw him again. In 1817, Truth was forced by Dumont to marry an older slave named Thomas. They had five children, Diana, Elizabeth, Hannah, Peter, and Sophia
The state of New York began, in 1799, to legislate the abolition of slavery, although the process of emancipating New York slaves was not complete until July 4, 1827. Dumont had promised Truth freedom a year before the state emancipation, “if she would do well and be faithful.” However, he changed his mind, claiming a hand injury had made her less productive. She was infuriated. She continued working until she felt she had done enough to satisfy her sense of obligation to him by spinning 100 pounds of wool.
Late in 1826, Truth escaped to freedom with her infant daughter, Sophia. She had to leave her other children behind because they were not legally freed in the emancipation order until they had served as bound servants into their twenties. She later said:
“ I did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right ”
She found her way to the home of Isaac and Maria Van Wagenen, a Quaker family, who took her and her baby in. Isaac offered to buy her services for the remainder of the year (until the state’s emancipation took effect), which Dumont accepted for $20 She lived there until the New York State Emancipation Act was approved a year later.
Amazing isn’t it? People are still buying that she and Hillary are for the minorities when truth be known; they want them dead.
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