Komen Foundation pretends to change its mind. One corporate communications executive wonders: is the public stupid enough to buy it?
Read. The language. Closely.
Contrary to what Komen’s highly-paid PR crisis hacks and gullible headline writers at newsdesks around the nation would ask you to believe, The Susan G. Komen Foundation does NOT promise to fund Planned Parenthood in the future. They promise to let PP APPLY for grants in the future. Applying and receiving are different things, as anyone who ever applied and got rejected for a job ought to know.
I have some experience in the world of corporate communications, folks. Lots and lots, in fact, and I’ve been inside a Fortune 150 war room when the wheels flew off. Today’s media charade is an attempt to get the heat off as soon as possible. Textbook stuff.
The announcement is timed beautifully – just before Super Bowl Weekend – and they’re hoping that the combination of the pretend apology and the big game will insure that, come Monday morning, nobody will remember what they did. They can then find a reason to deny those future Planned Parenthood grant apps when nobody is paying much attention.
So, America – how stupid are you?
If you want Komen to do the right thing, demand that they fire their aggressively anti-abortion president and their anti-abortion board and that they work with non-partisan health and women’s groups to replace them with leaders who will put the well being of American women first.
Anything short of that plays right into the hands of those who’d hold breast cancer victims hostage to a social conservative political agenda.
lullaby pit 
Hey, I recognize that modus operandi – that’s the George W. Bush PR handbook they’re using.
As I said: textbook.
So. Komen will be good guys again as long as they vote YOUR politics? Who’s “modus operandi”-ing who? And Bush-bashing, too. Well gollee! You drive a Lexus or Subaru, by any chance? Maybe a Beamer? Kill any children lately? Oh no, that’s right… you outsource your killing and call it poor-woman’s healthcare. You mouth your beat-up cliches and I’ll mouth mine, and I bet more people live healthy my way…
Dorothy: You get a lot wrong in a very few words. I’m not 100% sure how you turned “non-partisan health and women’s groups to replace them with leaders who will put the well being of American women first” into “as long as they vote YOUR politics.”
And I drive a 12 year-old pickup with 160,000+ miles on it.
Hey Dorothy, you know that Planned Parenthood does more than provide abortions right? If you didn’t before, you do now. So maybe you can get off your single issue politics for a brief moment and realize that this has nothing to do with abortion except in your own mind.
Why, yes, i have killed some children lately. Given that i pay taxes to the United States Government, i’ve been funding our mighty war machine that hasn’t won anything since 1945 but is exceptional at “accidentally” killing women and children. My government (no matter which stupid party is in power) develops economic plans for the rest of the world that are excellent at killing children. Oh, what, you weren’t talking about brown, non-American children were you?
Let’s keep in mind that the Komen Foundation only passes through $0.24 for every dollar it takes in. Looks like people are making a lot of money off of charity that pretends to be non-profit and apolitical.
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