VIDEO: Laura Ingraham broadcasts Planned Parenthood segment with rifle crosshairs over their logo

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Ingraham puts crosshairs on Planned Parenthood: What are these people at Fox thinking?
By David Neiwert Monday Jul 13, 2009 11:30am

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/ingraham-puts-crosshairs-planned-par



When Laura Ingraham filled in for Bill O'Reilly on Friday's night's O'Reilly Factor, she ran a segment on abortion that was ostensibly an "investigation" into Planned Parenthood. It featured a logo that placed a red set of crosshairs -- the kind you find on a rifle scope -- over PP's logo.

I'd just like to ask one question:

What the hell were these people thinking?

Now, presumably, Ingraham herself did not order up this graphic, or if she did, it at least went through the hands of the show's regular producers and overseers. These are the same people who just went through a well-deserved round of approbation for their role -- in the form of those 28 references to Dr. George Tiller as a "baby killer" -- in the murder of Tiller by an anti-abortion fanatic.

And now they're running a graphic suggestive of what Ann Coulter calls "a procedure with a rifle" -- something, in fact, that Coulter has actually encouraged on The O'Reilly Factor.

Really, I'm serious. What are these people thinking?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Oh, now I understand their definition of "pro-life"

It is to kill anyone who is in favor of choice.

[47of74]

2. As well as anyone who does not look, feel, think, or believe as they do!

[Echo In Light]

3. Those who organize these mass media messages don't leave anything to chance

They're trying to 'normalize' HATING any who don't support their agenda, and from that point it's a slippery slope to glorification of killing them.

[earthboundmisfit]

4. They know EXACTLY what they're doing

It is a purely intentional invitation to domestic terrorism. :mad:

[Lars39]

5. That should be reported.

[lapfog_1]

6. The dog-whistle phrases weren't effective enough...

time to be out and out blatant. After all, their audience isn't particularly astute.

[Joanne98]

7. I wish someone would kick her teeth out!

[Control-Z]

8. If justice were being served,

so soon after the murder of Dr. Tiller, Fox would be afraid to air such a blatantly violent graphic. Instead they boldly go about their business of promoting hate and violence, while the outrage dies out.

I had so hoped that some good would come of Dr. Tiller's death.

[crickets]

10. Agreed.

The graphic is a tacit incitement to violence. It's sickening. It's ethically beyond the pale. It's Fox.

[Riley18]

9. I cannot believe I was so naive as to think there would be nothing to talk about once

Bush was out, but these creeps keep getting worse. Fox News should be made to apologize and make a donation to Planned Parenthood.

[JBoy]

11. WTF? Wouldn't a magnifying glass be a more appropriate image for an "investigation"?

Wassamater? Ya didn't have magnifying glass clip-art?