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The authors of this puff-piece in the Washington Post, by William Booth (with "Special" correspondent Debbie Goldberg) is typical leftist bilge.

Seemingly incapable (or unwilling) to be objective about the recent threatening letters to abortion clinics, the authors (I refuse to sully the name "journalists") have left quite a few questions unanswered. On the off-chance that they or the WP staff might be lurking, I have a few questions that might be posed or considered in follow-up stories:

1) Warm-up question: What was the Reichstag Fire?

2) Who was Frank Mendiola? [That one's easy; just look above.]

3) What did David Martin (Concord, CA, 1990) do to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, and why?

4) Who was the prime suspect (statue of limitations has expired) in the April 22, 1991 arson of Alan Weisenberg's abortion clinic in Woodbridge, New Jersey?

5) Judging by the shallowness and propagandist tone of your "article," did you perform any research at all, beyond quoting the accusations of abortion clinic profiteers?

6) Do you have a list of all "victim" clinics the letters were mailed to (I'd really like to see it.)?

7) Were clinics of certain affiliations (PP, NCAP, NAF) disproportionately represented?

8) If so, among clinics that received letters, were there any nearby clinics not receiving letters who might stand to gain by rescheduled abortions? If so, are they financially/organizationally linked?

9) In general, who did not receive threatening letters, who would almost assuredly have been targetted had the letters been sent by an anti-abortion person or group? For instance, did Warren Hern's office in Boulder, Colorado receive a letter? The geographic area mentioned (East and Midwest) is very vague. If the letters were mailed, why not send them to the West Coast?

10) Do you have a single piece of evidence that anti-abortion activists were involved? If not, why did you report it as though it's a foregone conclusion?

11) Would it have hurt you to have just quoted one pro-life spokesperson? Your Al-Qaeda tripe was pathetic. They kill innocent people; so do abortionists. They imprison religious dissidents; the U.S. imprisons religious dissidents (see the recent case of Rev. Weslin, sentenced to five months in federal prison for kneeling and praying in front of an abortion clinic). Balance, people. Objectivity. Why did you not quote one single pro-life spokesperson?

Junior-high-school-quality reporting.....

And furthermore:

12) From the minimal 'facts' given in the article, it appears as though Planned Parenthood received the bulk of the letters. How are their donations coming along in the last week? Were they hurt or helped financially? And the others?

13) Is it entirely outside the realm of possibility that pro-aborts sent the letters to discredit pro-lifer's in general, and (off the top of my head) Bret Schundler in particular? [I wonder if McGreevy will make a point of it in their debate Tuesday?]

14) Given that abortionists dismember live babies for money, is there anything they and their comrades wouldn't do?

Junior-high-school-quality reporting. posted by toenail Sadly, toenail, the reporters are well educated but serving an insidious agenda that sanctions, supports and indeed promotes the use of serial killers slaughtering in too many cases conscious unborn children in the demonic name of 'a woman's ~~right~~ rite to choose' a serial killer to deal with a personal and/or societal difficulty. Such a national holocaust is championed by one political party and is ... well, it is a disgrace to this nation, but the people are sleepwalking, refusing to meet their sovereign responsibilities so the horrific slaughter continues, to the tune of 1.2 million sacrifices each year. The Taliban and al Qaida must be envious of such efficiency in killing off Americans!