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tencats

(567 posts)
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 11:35 AM Nov 2015

Kinzinger said he would “fully expect an apology” from Planned Parenthood if not target of shooting

Congressman Adam Kinzinger attacks Planned Parenthood on live TV during shooting at Colorado Springs clinic
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/congressman-adam-kinzinger-attacks-planned-parenthood-on-live-tv-during-shooting-at-colorado-springs-a6752476.html

An American congressman has attacked Planned Parenthood on live TV as a gunman engaged in an hour-long standoff with authorities at one of the women's health care clinics in Colorado.

Adam Kinzinger, a Republican member of the US House of Representatives, criticised Planned Parenthood's statement about the incident as "very premature", while speaking to CNN as the shooting took place.

Mr Kinzinger said he would “fully expect an apology” from Planned Parenthood if it became clear they were not the target of the shooting.

Mr Kinzinger demanded the apology, despite the fact Planned Parenthood acknowledged they “don’t yet know if Planned Parenthood was in fact the target of this attack.”

The congressman also referred to series of secretly taped videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood executives selling off fetal tissue.
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Kinzinger said he would “fully expect an apology” from Planned Parenthood if not target of shooting (Original Post) tencats Nov 2015 OP
Yup! He's an ignorant douche! R&K nt longship Nov 2015 #1
FUAK nt eppur_se_muova Nov 2015 #2
APOLOGY?!???!! LiberalElite Nov 2015 #3
CNN brought him in while the situation was still in progress... JHB Nov 2015 #8
CNN is almost as bad as Fox. CrispyQ Nov 2015 #13
I wish I could apologize to Kinzinger librechik Nov 2015 #4
PP should tell him to fuck off. Lizzie Poppet Nov 2015 #5
Dingdingding shenmue Nov 2015 #6
Why would they do that? They've been the few voices of reason in this 951-Riverside Nov 2015 #7
Repubs have no shame. Sociopaths one and all - nt KingCharlemagne Nov 2015 #9
Not the target of the shooting? mysuzuki2 Nov 2015 #10
Yes, it's damage control to protect the religious conservative sexist Zorra Nov 2015 #15
I saw that Asshole when they had him on JunkYardDogg Nov 2015 #11
Just like Trump wants an apology from the handicapped writer he mocked world wide wally Nov 2015 #12
Kinzinger is an Apologist for Terrorism ck4829 Nov 2015 #14
Is the ass going to apologize to Planned Parenthood? sinkingfeeling Nov 2015 #16
CNN needs to be held to account for putting him on air during the standoff. Bluenorthwest Nov 2015 #17
Send them an email. pamela Nov 2015 #18
TCF Bank next door isn't demanding an apology from HIM MisterP Nov 2015 #19
Yellow Journalism at its finest. lpbk2713 Nov 2015 #20

JHB

(37,163 posts)
8. CNN brought him in while the situation was still in progress...
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 12:10 PM
Nov 2015

...and he tried to imply that PP wasn't really involved (e.g., it was a robbery of the nearby bank) but was taking advantage of the incident for PR purposes -- posing as under attack when whey were (allegedly) not.

Of course, within hours it was clear that he (and other RWers like NRO editor Jonah Goldberg, who used the bank angle to attack Bernie Sanders on Twitter) was doing precisely what he was claiming PP was doing.

So sane people want two questions answered:
1) Where's his apology; and
2) who at CNN thought it was a good idea to book him, and why hasn't that person (and at least two levels of his or her superiors) lost their jobs yet?

CrispyQ

(36,542 posts)
13. CNN is almost as bad as Fox.
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 12:39 PM
Nov 2015

I'm so glad that Al Jazeera is in our regular cable package now!

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
5. PP should tell him to fuck off.
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 11:52 AM
Nov 2015

I mean literally release a two-word official response to that assclown: "Fuck off."

mysuzuki2

(3,521 posts)
10. Not the target of the shooting?
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 12:11 PM
Nov 2015

Then what was he doing inside the PP building with firearms and explosives? Obviously, we don't know the full story of this assholes motivations yet, but to say PP was not the target seems absurd..

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
15. Yes, it's damage control to protect the religious conservative sexist
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 12:47 PM
Nov 2015

anti-choice/anti birth control element from criticism.

It's Colorado Springs.

JunkYardDogg

(873 posts)
11. I saw that Asshole when they had him on
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 12:25 PM
Nov 2015

This piece of shit was acting like he was the Publicity Agent Front Man for fundamentalist religious extremist Christo Fascist Terrorists
Rep. Colostomy Bag was actually providing reasons, excuses, justification for the terrorist attack
And then he wants an apology from PP.
Then he gives the standard, typical cover used for every Right wing political religious terrorist attack, that the terrorists was mentally ill. If that is so, then the entire Right wing base must be a mentally ill bunch of fuckheads

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
17. CNN needs to be held to account for putting him on air during the standoff.
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 01:23 PM
Nov 2015

Vile, exploitative choice. Fuck them.

pamela

(3,469 posts)
18. Send them an email.
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 01:47 PM
Nov 2015

Dear CNN,

The next time there is an active shooting going on in a place often targeted by hatemongers could you wait until the bodies are cold before inviting a hatemonger on to incite more violence? Thanks.

lpbk2713

(42,769 posts)
20. Yellow Journalism at its finest.
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 09:05 PM
Nov 2015



CNN --- The go to channel when you want sensationalism read to you by no talent puppets.

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