operation rescue to kansas: “thank you sir may i have another”
Figure this out: Operation Rescue, the anti-abortion protest group, gave Phill Kline its “man of the year” award — for bringing its cause one of its biggest setbacks ever.
I guess it doesn’t have to make sense.
12.19.2006 @ 08:30
It’s not whether you win or lose . . .
Now that I think about it, Kline’s attempts to disguise his legal justification for supoenaing medical records could have been read by Operation Rescue as a kind of selling out of its–and his–principles. But, perhaps because that disguise was so thin that it fooled no one, Operation Rescue could overlook the subterfuge . . . especially since it was in service to their agenda.
But your larger point is well taken: there’s not even a little victory here that I can see. The same is also true in the case of their Woman of the Year award. The base was mobilized in both cases . . . only to have revealed to itself how small it is.
12.19.2006 @ 21:52
I think that, like most true believers in some greater social movement (regardless of ideological origins), they delude themselves into believing that their movement is much larger than it actually is.
For most people there are no consequences from this, outside of the lack of a social life and the occasional cry into an Appletini. In others — like this one — there are real-world effects.