Rep. Marsha Blackburn is running for the Tennessee Senate seat which Sen. Corker will not be contesting in 2018. So what does she do in her announcement video?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-shuts-down-rep-marsha-blackburn-campaign-announcement-video/Marsha Blackburn claims that she "stopped the sale of baby parts."
For fuck's sake PLANNED PARENTHOOD DOES NOT SELL BABY PARTS. They donate them for medical research and only charge for storage and transportation costs--not to make any profit.
Those videos were essentially sting operations. No charges have ever been brought against Planned Parenthood over them, and, in fact, the people who made the videos have been charged over them.
Fuck you Rep. Blackburn, you lying sack of shit.
EDIT: Seen in response:
[T]here is very strong evidence that Planned Parenthood's sale of baby parts violated relevant federal law. Planned Parenthood repeatedly claimed that they earned no profit from the sale of baby parts, but also failed to produce one single lickspittle of evidence to refute the words captured on tape from its own representatives. Instead, it relied on its media and political defenders to make it go away, and, just like the accusations against Mr. Weinstein (also a major Democratic donor), it did. The media had to lie and suppress the plain videotaped evidence of anyone with eyes to see, calling the videos "doctored" for no reason at all -- but they succeeded, because the media is very good at spreading lies when it puts its collective mind to it.
But the evidence was still there. Rep. Blackburn's committee took note of it in its report and filed the appropriate criminal referrals with the California Attorney General, among others. Of course, the CA A.G., the real sack of shit in this story, is a big ol' Democrat, and was far more interested in putting away David Daleiden for exposing the truth than he was in even pretending to investigate Planned Parenthood's very possible crimes. Shades of the Weinstein-Cyrus Vance Jr. relationship there.
So, before you go on a ragemode again, open your "fucking" eyes and look at the "fucking" statute and the things those Planned Parenthood "fuckers" said on tape, and see if you can explain what legally-allowed expenses StemExpress was paying Planned Parenthood for, since StemExpress was already (by mutual admission) directly handling both the storage costs and the transportation costs, not to mention every single other valid expense permitted by statute.
Planned Parenthood sells baby parts.*
And Twitter, in an act of unmitigated political evil, has decided to censor that basic truth.
There's a lot of people in this story who deserve full ragemode -- a genuinely stunning number of lying sacks of shit -- but a Congresswoman who helped expose them is not one. She deserves our donations, not our ire.
*On a relatively minor linguistic note, even if Planned Parenthood were able to show that its sale of baby parts did not incur them a profit and was within the law, it would still be accurate to call the transfer of harvested fetal organs to a for-profit corporation in exchange for money a "sale." And I think that's an overlooked element of this case: Planned Parenthood's whole defense has been, "Oh, the literal blood money we received was technically legal," but there's a large portion of the American people who believe that, even if it is legal, it should go the way of the slave trade and be banned. Either way, it is a sale, and Blackburn is saying a truth that makes a lot of people very angry, but it is nevertheless indisputably true for any regular user of the English language.