In USA Today op-ed, Powers recycled 1992 Democratic convention claim
SUMMARY: Democratic strategist and Fox News political analyst Kirsten Powers wrote: "In a low point in Democratic Party history, Pennsylvania Gov. Bob Casey was banned from speaking at the 1992 Democratic Convention for being opposed to abortion rights." However, as Media Matters has noted, several opponents of abortion rights were given speaking slots at that Democratic convention.
In a November 15 USA Today op-ed touting the "decline of old school liberalism" within the Democratic Party, Fox News analyst Kirsten Powers wrote: "In a low point in Democratic Party history, Pennsylvania Gov. Bob Casey was banned from speaking at the 1992 Democratic Convention for being opposed to abortion rights. This year, his son, Bob Casey Jr., who holds the same views, was actively recruited by that same Democratic Party and unseated Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa." In fact, as Media Matters for America has noted, several opponents of abortion rights were given speaking slots at the Democratic convention. The New Republic's Michael Crowley noted in a 1996 article that "a slew of pro-life Democrats, including Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley Jr., Senators John Breaux and Howell Heflin, and five governors, did address the delegates in 1992."
Also, Powers claimed that "without centrist Democratic candidates, it would have been President Bush and GOP strategist Karl Rove celebrating last week," and predicted that "[m]ore than half of the new House members will join the New Democrat Coalition or the Blue Dog Coalition caucuses, known for their fiscal responsibility, business-friendly stance and generally more socially conservative views." Powers also praised the Democratic Party for "running fiscally responsible candidates." However, in praising the New Democrats and the Blue Dogs for their "fiscal responsibility" and "business-friendly stance," Powers baselessly suggested that Democrats who do not fit into her "centrist" mold are fiscally irresponsible or anti-business.
From Powers's November 15 op-ed:
It's more glacial shift than radical revolution, but change is afoot in the Democratic Party.
In a low point in Democratic Party history, Pennsylvania Gov. Bob Casey was banned from speaking at the 1992 Democratic Convention for being opposed to abortion rights. This year, his son, Bob Casey Jr., who holds the same views, was actively recruited by that same Democratic Party and unseated Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.
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Yet, without centrist Democratic candidates, it would have been President Bush and GOP strategist Karl Rove celebrating last week. More than half of the new House members will join the New Democrat Coalition or the Blue Dog Coalition caucuses, known for their fiscal responsibility, business-friendly stance and generally more socially conservative views. While most criticized the war, few have called for an immediate withdrawal.
In addition to running fiscally responsible candidates, the Democratic Party appealed to the vital center by slaying a few of old school liberalism's sacred cows: aggressive secularism and intolerance of anti-abortion views.
Did anyone watch MSNBC during the election? Joe Scarborough must have brought up this same canard three or four times. And of course, nobody corrected him...
They love to bring this up, the Cons however turned there back on Gay speakers in the 2000 Repub Convention.
...but my favorite Scarborough moment of election night was his meltdown with Chris Matthews. That was hilarious. Scarborough looked like he was about to pull a "Lori Klausutis" on him.
That must have been after I switched channels. After a few hours of Matthews, Carlson and Scarborough I had to switch to CNN, because I just couldn't take any more. I'll have to look that one up.
The link is from the rabid right newsbusters.org, but it captures the moment pretty well.
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That was great... I'm not really a fan of Scarborough...but, I like it when anyone throws a serious beat-down onto Mathews. Thanks for the link... that was funny.
Thanks for the link, that was quite a speech!
An undead talking point. There is simply no way to drive a stake through its heart. The fact it is an outright lie means nothing to the rightwing screechmonkey crowd, its ideologically useful, it is necessary for propaganda purposes therefore it IS true and becomes true FOR THAT REASON ALONE.
ONE MORE TIME:
Casey was banned from speaking because he didn't back Bill Clinton's candidacy for President. His beliefs about abortion were incidental and not to be construed.
The Republican liars will never stop their crusade against the truth.
Quite correct.
Back in February, commenting here on a completely different topic, I said right wingers
don’t care if it’s true or not. They just don’t care. They will simply repeat the story whenever and for as long as it’s ideologically useful. And then it will go dark for a time and then it will be lit up again at some point when it will again be useful.
Part of the idea is to make the fantasy in question into accepted fact - a transition the 1992 convention story had apparently made in some journalistically feeble minds.
But, I just recently heard that Hillary Clinton had Vince Foster killed. I wonder how she pulled that off.
Maybe she slammed into his car after running a stop sign.
Oh wait, that was a different first lady...
Unfortunately, she mindlessly repeated a factoid that really isn't accurate.
So let's give my woman a chance to correct herself.
She is supposed to provide the "Democratic" point of view in discussions on FOX NEWS. She is even worse than Alan Colmes. She even supported the detainee bill that George Bush supported. Even Alan Colmes didn't support that bill. She is one of those moderate, weak, ambigous Democrats that FOX NEWS loves to get to go up against raging conservatives like Michelle Malkin or Ann Coulter. They do this deliberately. I wouldn't be surprised if she was a plant from FOX NEWS. I'm not surprised that she brought up this thoroughly debunked falsehood.
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Where did she come from, this obvious shill? Has anybody heard of her? What's her "Democratic" background?
Powers is worse than moderate, weak and ambiguous... She seems to go out of her way, even when it's not part of the discussion, to point out how she is more conservative than most Democrats. She also seems to look for opportunities to knock them. She is much farther to the right than Colmes... when she has something to say. Half the time she seems like she has no opinion and just pulls something out of the air. Colmes is much better than that.
My better self feels sorry for Powers. She seems lost somehow. Meanwhile, she is in the News Hounds doghouse, courtesy of moi.
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Would anyone expect a party to allow a speaker at convention that didnt support the ticket?