{"id":51871,"date":"2015-07-25T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/25\/if-your-argument-is-sketchy-then-just-make-things-up.html"},"modified":"2015-07-25T09:41:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T15:41:31","slug":"if-your-argument-is-sketchy-then-just-make-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/25\/if-your-argument-is-sketchy-then-just-make-things-up.html","title":{"rendered":"If your argument is sketchy, then just make things up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&ldquo;Look, Planned Parenthood was founded on a eugenicist philosophy,&rdquo; [Troy] Newman responded, &ldquo;in other words, &lsquo;exterminate the people that we don&rsquo;t want to have too many of,&rsquo; which is a quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a sitting Supreme Court justice. That&rsquo;s what abortion is all about.&rdquo; He added that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was &ldquo;embedded with the Nazis,&rdquo; adding, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s not rhetoric, folks, look it up, it&rsquo;s absolutely true.&rdquo;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is positively, completely, clearly, unquestionably, absolutely true &#8230; that Justice Ginsburg has said no such thing, that Margaret Sanger was not a Nazi, and that Planned Parenthood was not built on &quot;extermination&quot; (in fact, it was built originally on birth control, which, if we&#39;re going to call that &quot;extermination,&quot; let&#39;s see some deceptively edited videos about <i>that<\/i> and be open about it)<\/p>\n<p>Glad we cleared that up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/activist-behind-planned-parenthood-smear-makes-fake-quote-claim-rbg-wants-exterminate-people'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/0gBAjOcbWbqJQvcJYfq8EsMFRKHcU1O3dYaufudDJFq7PY5T8HPDv7VBd3bNuiWVqqT11WQDGxjdh4jniCztfXJBv_X2Q2pTHMGmaIyoTqTixbHpd2flLb7_gyh-rNhSEtnk=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/activist-behind-planned-parenthood-smear-makes-fake-quote-claim-rbg-wants-exterminate-people'>Activist Behind Planned Parenthood Smear Makes Up Fake Quote To Claim RBG Wants To &lsquo;Exterminate&rsquo; People<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTroy Newman, one of the anti-choice activists  behind a new set of videos  smearing Planned Parenthood, claimed in a radio interview yesterday that the women&rsquo;s health organization was &ldquo;fou\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ESSwHzvr5GQ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Look, Planned Parenthood was founded on a eugenicist philosophy,&rdquo; [Troy] Newman responded, &ldquo;in other words, &lsquo;exterminate the people that we don&rsquo;t want to have too many of,&rsquo; which is a quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a sitting Supreme Court justice. That&rsquo;s what abortion is all about.&rdquo; He added that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/25\/if-your-argument-is-sketchy-then-just-make-things-up.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If your argument is sketchy, then just make things up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12,134,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-health-care","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127821,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/margaret-sanger-eugenics-and-the-crusade-against-planned-parenthood.html","url_meta":{"origin":51871,"position":0},"title":"Margaret Sanger, eugenics, and the crusade against Planned Parenthood","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Aug-15 1:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest maneuver in the war against Planned Parenthood (and its services around abortion, contraception, and women's health services) is a move to have a bust of Sanger removed from the National Portrait Gallery.A group of ministers lead by former Republican politician E.W. 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I just have this transcribed snippet from the show (courtesy of Right Wing Watch, which has the audio as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Dolts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Dolts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/dolts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51804,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/21\/on-margaret-sanger-and-abortion-conspiracy-theories.html","url_meta":{"origin":51871,"position":2},"title":"On Margaret Sanger and Abortion Conspiracy Theories","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Jul-15 4:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Whenever the discussion of Planned Parenthood comes up, inevitably someone trots out the canard that Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's founder, was a eugenicist who set up the whole shebang out race hatred for African-Americans.Whereas, in fact:a. 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