Saturday, August 13, 2005
NARAL scapegoats its staff
Now NARAL's communication director, David Seldin, has "resigned."
I find it hard to believe that NARAL's communication director would quit in the teeth of a nomination battle without having been pushed out. It is a virtual certainty that NARAL gave him an incentive to leave, and perhaps an ultimatum.
I also find it hard to believe that the Roberts advertisement wasn't vetted and approved by NARAL's executive management, including Nancy Keenan. If she didn't approve the ad before it ran, NARAL contributors should know that their president is not supervising the most visible work of the organization. If she did approve the ad, then she has sold David Seldin down the river (assuming that NARAL did, in fact, twist his arm). NARAL, obviously, does not believe that the captain is accountable for the ship.
UPDATE: Welcome Michelle Malkin readers!
UPDATE: A commenter suggests that Seldin was not fired because of the content of the ad, but because he lied to major newspapers about the advertising buy. Interesting -- I had missed that.
5 Comments:
By 
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Sat Aug 13, 10:23:00 AM:
I don't think the communications director was forced to resign because of the content of the ad.
His critical mistake was telling the Washington Post, the New YOrk Times, CNN, and others that a buy had been made on Fox as well as CNN. The WP and NYT were both forced to run corrections, Fox got to gloat, and NARAL's credibility was left in tatters. That's why he was fired.
By 
callmemickey, at
Sat Aug 13, 02:49:00 PM:
NARAL essentially handed the nomination of John Roberts to W on a silver platter. The whole issue of Robert's pro bono work seems, at least to me, entirely pointless. If you examine his work he was merely pointing out that the wrong law was being applied in this case. Sounds like a smart move to make a stand and make the statement that "ok the abortion bomber is scum, so lets get it right, so it can't be overturned on appeal years later."
By Gordon Smith, at
Sat Aug 13, 11:02:00 PM:
I didn't realize you were a Malkin fan, Hawk. She's one of the shrillest of the shrill.
By TigerHawk, at
Sat Aug 13, 11:33:00 PM:
Screwy, I don't really think in terms of whether or not I'm a "fan" or not of any particular blogger. I can find something to agree with on the great majority of blogs, including many on the left. As you imply, I do not link to Michelle Malkin very often because she usually writes about partisan politics or righty social issues, neither of which are my favorite topics. Among the "shrill" righty bloggers (your characterization, not mine), I am much more interested in the content on Little Green Footballs, for example.
On abortion, I think you know that I support (i) the repeal of Roe, because I think it is a stupid case, and (ii) statutory lawful abortion within reasonable limits (the first four months strikes me as about right). I strenuously dislike the activists on both sides of the abortion question, but at the moment I dislike the pro-choice activists more because they are running scared and it causes them to say absolutely asinine things.
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