{"id":37825,"date":"2012-08-24T18:28:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T01:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=37825"},"modified":"2014-12-30T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T21:42:24","slug":"mission-creep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/08\/mission-creep.html","title":{"rendered":"Mission Creep"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>You could hardly find a more exquisite illustration of our tortured politics than the fact that prolifers are cheering wildly because, in this viral video, Anderson Cooper successfully nailed Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is a bald-faced lie.\u00a0 The lie?\u00a0 Cooper successfully shows that Romney\/Ryan are not *nearly* as committed to stopping abortion as this Planned Parenthood panic-monger is trying to make out as she gins up votes and donations from pro-choicers using the standard \u201cSupport us or all is lost when They win!\u201d technique fundraisers for PP use every election year: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8k-KuYJraEg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But because the video features a Dem being \u201ctorn to shreds\u201d in a lie, prolifers are, weirdly, delighted about it\u2013despite the fact that Cooper\u2019s central point is that <strong>Romney\/Ryan are laboring to distance themselves from the GOP platform and aren\u2019t really all *that* big a threat to Planned Parenthood<\/strong>.\u00a0 Insane.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could hardly find a more exquisite illustration of our tortured politics than the 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