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UTUSN

(70,722 posts)
Tue Jan 24, 2017, 10:15 PM Jan 2017

O'Reilly just reperpetrated a smear on Choice,conflating a serial killer(GOSNELL)as an"abortionist"

In 2011 somebody named Kermit GOSNELL was arrested for murder collateral to pretending to be a doctor performing abortions. Back then the wingnuts pounced on this and framed the story as being that of "an abortion doctor."

I submit that this person was neither a doctor nor performing abortions, that he was a serial killer with his method being the guise of a doctor. Whatever paper credentials he had for calling himself a doctor were just props.

So tonight here comes O'LOOFAH (again), hosting one Ann McELHINNEY, who has a career with her spouse of creating propaganda on several wingnut topics - pro-fracking, anti-climate change, anti-Choice. This was about her continuing film project on GOSNELL, and the interview was packed with references to "abortion." It's noteworthy that one title for her GOSNELL thing refers to him as "a serial killer" - agreed!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_McElhinney_and_Phelim_McAleer
[font size=5]Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer[/font]

Ann McElhinney (born 1964) and Phelim McAleer (born 1967) are Irish documentary filmmakers. They have written and produced the political documentaries FrackNation, Not Evil Just Wrong, and Mine Your Own Business, as well as The Search for Tristan's Mum and Return to Sender. Their latest project is the true crime drama film based on the crimes of Kermit Gosnell.[1] They are married. ....

Not Evil Just Wrong is a film McElhinney and McAleer directed and produced to challenge Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. It suggests that the evidence for human-caused global warming is inconclusive, and that the impact of suggested legislation for mitigating climate change would be much more harmful to humans than beneficial.[14] The movie was filmed in 2008, and was screened at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam[15] and at the Right Online conference in 2009. ....

(Main article: Gosnell: America's Biggest Serial Killer)
McElhinney and McAleer are developing a true crime drama film about abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell,[3][26] who was convicted on three of the murder charges, 21 felony counts of illegal late-term abortion, and 211 counts of violating the 24-hour informed consent law, May 2013. The murder charges related to a patient who died while under his care and seven newborns said to have been killed after being born alive during attempted abortions.[27] The current film project is called the Gosnell Movie, and it has raised more than $2.3 million on Indiegogo as of June 26, 2015.[28][29][30] On Friday, 9 May 2014, the filmmakers, McElhinney and McAleer, announced that they had hit their funding goal for the movie and that the movie will be made.[31] The Gosnell movie project has raised more money than any other movie project in Indiegogo history.[31] During the fundraising period the project received endorsements from Hollywood actors such as Kevin Sorbo.[31] Crowdfund Insider has called the Gosnell movie project the "Most Successfully Funded Campaign on Indiegogo".[32] The campaign received contributions from 28,181 donors.[32][33] Andrew Klavan has been hired to be the screenwriter for the movie.[34] Nick Searcy will direct and John Sullivan is the executive producer ....

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O'Reilly just reperpetrated a smear on Choice,conflating a serial killer(GOSNELL)as an"abortionist" (Original Post) UTUSN Jan 2017 OP
You should correct his Wikipedia page. braddy Jan 2017 #1
The reference to a GOSNELL page in the McILHENNY page is about her movie UTUSN Jan 2017 #2
I meant his own page, that describes him as a doctor and an abortionist. braddy Jan 2017 #3

UTUSN

(70,722 posts)
2. The reference to a GOSNELL page in the McILHENNY page is about her movie
Tue Jan 24, 2017, 10:46 PM
Jan 2017

Where it says "Main article" - it's this one, and I doubt that they would allow any changes to it to stand, not to mention that I don't know how to edit in Wiki, haha. I knew before that Dean CAIN, friend of Kelly and Mark, is a wingnut, but it's disappointing here anyway.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosnell:_America%27s_Biggest_Serial_Killer

[font size=5]Gosnell: America's Biggest Serial Killer[/font]

Gosnell: America's Biggest Serial Killer is an upcoming American film about Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor who is reported to have killed hundreds of infants born alive during abortion procedures, and convicted of three counts of murder.

The film was announced in 2014. Funds for its production were raised via crowdfunding, in which $2.3 million was raised for the creation of the film.[1][2][3] The film is being made by Irish filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer and directed by Nick Searcy. Andrew Klavan has been hired as the screenwriter.[4] It stars Earl Billings and Dean Cain. A release date has not yet been announced. ....

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