Inquiring Minds Want To Know

22 Responses to “Inquiring Minds Want To Know”

1. Joe writes
   July 15th, 2008 10:34 am

   Hobbsein does have a valid consern here, even though he (as usual) jumps to a conclusion without even attempting to research and dig deeper.

   What exactly would prevent Planned Parenthood from taking any of the taxpayer funds that they receive and putting them into their PAC? Perhaps someone with a little more knowledge about their accounting can answer this.

2. Southern Beale writes
   July 15th, 2008 10:39 am

   Does it anger you that your tax dollars subsidize the nation’s largest (and highly profitable) abortion seller

   No, not when one knows that abortion care is only 3% of what Planned Parenthood does. Of course, Bill Hobbs isn’t interested in facts any more than the TN Republican Party is interested in providing affordable health care for the millions of working women in this country. But there is that whole “parenthood” part of the Planned Parenthood name that they like to forget about.

   Services Planned Parenthood provides include prenatal care, gynecological exams, birth control services, PAP smears, pregnancy testing etc. etc. etc.

   I realize that “Planned Parenthood” is a wingnut dogwhistle for “abortion” but just because they don’t have an other way to rally their base to the polls this election doesn’t mean they can lie about a legitimate healthcare provider that just happens to provide abortion services as a tiny fraction of the many other things they do. Penis-Americans probably wouldn’t understand that a lot of women go to Planned Parenthood for a zillion reasons OTHER than obtaining aboritons.

3. Marlo Kidder writes
   July 15th, 2008 10:39 am

   Oh, pardon me while I yawn . . .

   This is so 2004. Think I saw it on VH1 last night. Tennessee Republicans are so intellectually bankrupt. Can’t they come up with anything new?

4. Joe writes
   July 15th, 2008 10:59 am

   Hobbs’s post can boiled down to this question: Can Planned Parenthood give money to its PAC?

   If so, Hobbs has a legitimate concern. If not, he doesn’t and is just making up a controversy where there is none.

5. Sean Braisted writes
   July 15th, 2008 11:02 am

   Joe,

   Corporations cannot donate to PACs or candidates, so the answer is no (even if they had a PAC in Tennessee).

6. Joe writes
   July 15th, 2008 11:20 am

   Hobbs has his answer, it appears.

   That’s what I figured, Sean. I didn’t know for sure, but that sounds about right.

7. Jon writes
   July 15th, 2008 11:30 am

   >he (as usual) jumps to a conclusion without even attempting to research and dig deeper.

   That’s the charitable interpretation. One familiar with his track record might be more inclined to suspect he “asked a question” to which he already knew the answer, in order to insinuate that the answer was otherwise without directly lying.

8. Morris Berg writes
   July 15th, 2008 11:48 am

   Jon: be careful . . . you may be giving Hobbs too much credit as to actually “knowing” then “insinuating” anything. That requires a higher level of cognitive and symbolic representation/manipulation than I suspect he can muster.

   To paraphrase Colbert: he just feels these things in his gut and then hurls whatever invectives he can think of to see what sticks.

9. Southern Beale writes
   July 15th, 2008 11:56 am

   Ah. Apparently this is part of a larger GOP campaign.

   As I said in my first comment, “…just because they don’t have an other way to rally their base to the polls this election ….”

   Lather, rinse, repeat.

10. Julius Valerius writes
    July 15th, 2008 12:22 pm

    “wingnut dogwhistle”…I love it! Woof Woof!

11. Mickey writes
    July 15th, 2008 12:31 pm

    Quit giving my tax money to these baby killers!

12. Morris Berg writes
    July 15th, 2008 12:47 pm

    Down Mickey . . . down boy . . . sit.

    Mickey: grrrrrr . . .

    Hobbs: Baby-killer!

    Mickey: grrrrr . . .

    Hobbs: Mexican, Muslim baby-killer?

    Mickey: woof grr bowowow woof woof arffffff

13. GoldnI writes
    July 15th, 2008 12:57 pm

    Mickey, do libertarians believe that reading is also part of the Bilderberg/North American Union/International Bankers conspiracy?

14. Morris Berg writes
    July 15th, 2008 1:01 pm

    . . .

    Hobbs: gay, Mexican, Muslim, socialist/communist Planned Parenthood doctor baby-killer?

    Mickey: [silence] . . . BOOM! [head explodes]

    Hobbs: Mickey? Mickey?

15. Joe writes
    July 15th, 2008 2:26 pm

    I’d love to hear Hobbs respond to this, but I doubt he will.

16. Hobbs is a tool writes
    July 15th, 2008 3:42 pm

    Bill Hobbs and Robin Smith are douchebags.

17. LeftWingCracker writes
    July 15th, 2008 6:17 pm

    GoldnI, for shame; you forgot the Illiuminati!

18. autoegocrat writes
    July 15th, 2008 6:29 pm

    Cracker, they are all heads of the hydra, you see. GoldnI was implicitly referencing them.

19. GoldnI writes
    July 15th, 2008 7:54 pm

    You’re all missing the point. All of these groups, Bilderberg and the NAU and the Illuminati, they’re all just fronts for the Elders of Zion. I’m the Grand Yente of the Nashville chapter.

20. Mickey writes
    July 15th, 2008 8:27 pm

    Goldnl - I am not sure what libertarian’s believe.. I am a Constitutional Republican. And reading is not required, but recommended.

21. Mickey writes
    July 15th, 2008 8:28 pm

    The question still stands answered. My taxes should not be used for killing babies.

22. boatcar writes
    July 15th, 2008 10:15 pm

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