RW-nut take on Komen -- Big Abortion puts breast cancer charity in its place.

The, uh, "liberal media" is to blame for what happened, not Komen's politicization of its own cause. Oh, that the left was that powerful, or that the media was liberal.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/02/07/big-abortion-puts-breast-cancer-charity-in-its-place/

Score one for Big Media and the Liberal Elites.

If Newt Gingrich needed a handy example to back up his contention that a pack of comfortable leftwingers who dominate the mainstream U.S. media habitually filter news coverage through the prism of their one agenda, the furor over the Susan G. Komen Foundation may have just provided it.

The Foundation is the biggest U.S. breast cancer charity, which has spent almost $2 billion since 1982 paying for mammograms and financing research into breast cancer. It suddenly found itself under fierce attack, however, when it announced it would cut off $680,000 in funding for Planned Parenthood, which is disliked by U.S. conservative groups because it helps people get abortions. The Foundation said an internal policy bars it from funding organizations that are under investigation by Congress. Handily enough, a Congressional subcommittee headed by a Florida Republican is looking into whether Planned Parenthood uses federal funds to pay for abortions.

Komen’s decision was treated as a thinly-veiled attack on the forces of Choice and sparked an immediate reaction. Celebrities, pro-Choice groups, social media, well-financed activists and armies of commentators weighed in, overwhelmingly condemning the decision. The charity’s bosses, apparently caught by surprise, were crushed under the onslaught. They tried changing their story, but when that failed, quickly cut their losses, issued a blanket apology and reversed the decision. Planned Parenthood can now use its money for anything it feels like, as far as the Komen folks are concerned.

So everything’s fine now. Except, in the aftermath, there are questions being asked about coverage of the affair, and whether the media inadvertently displayed its overwhelming bias in favour of the Choice people.

...more at link.