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We already knew that National Review Online editor and former secretary Kathryn Jean Lopez was proud of America when the Blagojevich scandal broke because (a) it was simple enough for her to understand and (b) it didn’t involve queers. In her column today, however, she offers even more trenchant insight regarding Blago’s conscience — why he didn’t have one, so to speak. Perhaps a childhood tragedy left him scarred? Perhaps “narcissistic personality disorder,” which is a medical disease? Perhaps lingering depression? Simple greed? Please. A writer of K-Lo’s caliber need not engage such ridiculous psychological dalliances. The point is that Blago is evil because he loves abortion, much like the Democrats.
Not only is Blagojevich pro-choice, but he’s pushed for policies that are also pro-choice — a clear violation of the public trust — did anyone give him a mandate for this? — and now all women in Illinois are running around the streets killin’ babies like it’s the Fourth of freakin’ July:
In his profane and selfish ranting, Blagojevich provides the perfect example of a keeper of the public trust whose sense of responsibility has utterly vanished. Power corrupts, especially in Illinois, it would seem, where, even Chicago residents will admit, jail is beginning to look like a rite of passage for the state’s governors (this, boys and girls, is what we mean by “Chicago politics”).
A hat tip to the website www.lifesitenews.com, without which I might not have seen this gem: “In 2005 the governor issued an executive order forcing all pharmacists in the state to fill prescriptions for the abortifacient morning after pill. He boasted in a 2006 interview, ‘Rather than try to get the legislature to pass something — because we attempted to and they didn’t do it — on my own, through executive order action, I forced these guys to fill prescriptions for birth control for women who come in with prescriptions from their doctors.’”
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How’s that for leadership to be proud of? This is a case of government compulsion on an issue that public officials should not take lightly: freedom of conscience concerning matters that many Americans — including some pharmacists — consider life and death.
Don’t worry, K-Lo, the pro-life pharmacists themselves won’t be forced to take any morning after pills.
Wait a second, what does “conscience” even mean? Is that a WORD? Sounds kinda French in any event… Ahhhh, thank God, K-Lo defines “conscience” for us!
Merriam-Webster defines conscience as “the sense . . . of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one’s own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good.”
With this definition in our proverbial quiver, we can go back and read the previous paragraphs, and maybe then we’ll understand what the hell she could possibly be babbling about.
Conscience Pause [National Review]
Blago doesn’t need for abortion to be legal. He can just auction off unwanted children, if any. Or get ‘em appointed to the Board of a really nice day care center.
Anytime a writer resorts to giving dictionary definitions in their article, they are just grasping to fill white space. I have a Masters & I’ve written a LOT of papers & cited a lot of definitions for my poor professors (who also knew what I was doing!). ‘Need 14 more words….get the dictionary out!’
I need me one of them fancy writing jobs, where i would get to hang around swells all day. I understand that mr president elect hopack obomba will provide modest stipends for semi-professional writer type persons like myself–as part of some kind of egghead semi-welfare new deal-y kinda thing.
can i haz writting job now?
Wonkette, why do you put the picture of some fatty next to C-Brown? Your killing my erection!
Big fat retarded housewives are always so shitty about doctors and pharmacists until it’s time to put their big fat retarded kids on adderall and xanax, at the same time, because they’re the “SALT OF THE EARTH”.
No writer should ever begin a sentence with “Merriam-Webster defines …” unless they’re running for treasurer of their high school class. In which case I believe tradition demands that they define “dependable” or “trustworthy.”
PLEASE STOP PUBLISHING PHOTOS OF K-LO. SHE LOOKS LIKE A BULLDOG CHEWING A WASP.
Yeah, based on that pic, I don’t think having to find a pharmacist who sells the morning-after pill after a night of wild raunchy sex has ever been a problem for K-Lo (except during the NR cruise, obvs.)
randomsausage: I beg your pardon but my bulldog is beautiful. (K-Lo, not so much…).
I sense some of K-Lo’s angst about this subject comes from the fact that she knows it’s not a topic she’ll ever have to personally address.
What I want to know, is can I purchase that blazer Campbell Brown is wearing on the right from American Apparel? If so, in how many colors?
jagorev: Didn’t some commentard get banned for suggesting K-Lo and Bill Kristol swapped love-gravy on a NRO cruise? Not because it wasn’t possible….but that it caused mass panic as people replayed the visual in their heads….
Maybe he is also a secret homosexual (gasp!)
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/
How did a Shit Demon get on CNN? Slow news day…
Ah yes — conscience. In this case it’s defined as, “If we can’t prevent responsible doctors from issuing responsible women a prescription for birth control, we can damn well allow less-educated people to prevent you from getting it filled.” Like Mormons preventing gay marriage, the conscience of the conservative is always offended when it’s not allowed to restrict the rights of others. I give that horrid self-serving screed two shoes up.
randomsausage: And then they gave birth to Glenn Beck!
A FETUS IS A FUCKIN’ VALUABLE THING! YOU JUST DON’T GIVE THAT AWAY!
hahaha my friend is a writer for lifesitenews.com. I think I will have to call him and make fun of his baby saving efforts now.
Why is there a picture of Rosie O’Donnell looking her most butch at the top of the page?
Texan Bulldoggette: It really IS one of the most annoying tropes in op-ed writing (or ranting), even if it is sort of dead-pan hilarious that K-Lo felt she had to look up “conscience.”
And ferchrissakes, if someone’s going to pretend to write for a living, can’t she at least get a decent dictionary, like Chambers?
Corrupt Illinois politics = immoral contraception?
Bitch needs a good ass-fukking.
I’m in total agreement on never defining a word, ever. And if they do the Oxford English is the only acceptable dictionary.
Anyway, does anyone actually buy paper dictionaries anymore?
shortsshortsshorts: Just out of curiosity, Shorts x 3, what else does he/she do all day? Masturbate to second-trimester ultrasound photos? I’m honestly curious.
K-Lo looks like that rabid little bitch who turned into a blueberry on Willy Wonka…
Yes, so many commonalities between the Illinois governors that go to jail. George Ryan also loved abortion, was anti-pharmacist, was from Chicago and was a democrat . . .
bitchincamaro: yeah but you don’t get babies that way.
Has Campbell Brown been photoshopped? Because she looks so freakin’ hot in that big right hand panel. I think even The Coop would hit that.
bitchincamaro: You volunteerin’? Dam, you are one step-up dude, bro!
Can we please animate Giant Campbell Brown to reach over and punch K-Lo in the face?
being from chicago, the executive order that blago passed was one of the few right things he did. it turns out that there is a high rate of fucktard pharmicists in illinois, along with fucktard gov’s…these pharmacists are what we chicagoans refer to as ” downstate assholes.”
DeLand DeLakes: Well he’s a “Canadian” in “Virginia” of all places who just got married and is honestly one of the best dudes I know. He was a roommate in college. Other then our STAUNCH differences on everything political, religious, socio-economical and the like, he is a fucking great guy. Hate to say it.
Actually, George Ryan IS a pharmacist, he came from Kankakee, and was rumored to be a god fearing Republican, but then he freed the death row inmates so he must be a crypto-democrat.
As the son, grandson, and great-grandson of pharmacists, I was always taught that pharmacists had an ethical obligation to dispense prescribed medications whatever their personal views.
davesnothere: See my previously and oft-posted standard disclaimer regarding buttsecks with stupid people.
thank you.
polichi: “downstate assholes?” LIES! I grew up in your freakin’ city and know that the pharms are all up in Deerfield and North Chicago. I know at LEAST Abbott and Baxter are up there destroying the water and giving all of their neighbors cancerous cancer-type illnesses, which they vehemently deny for some reason.
K-Lo, Jabba wants his face back.
momus: Hey, somebody knew Ryan was a pharmacist. I thought that might go over everyone’s head. 1 million whore diamonds for you.
It’s a game show disguised as sarcasm. So many funs!
I’d hit that, hell yeah!
“ethical obligation to dispense prescribed medications whatever their personal views”
But it would be immoral to give you insulin, Mr. Governor. Then you might live. I couldn’t be responsible for that.
…when Rosie O’Donnell get her own news column?!
A hat tip to the website http://www.lifesitenews.com, without which I might not have seen this gem…
Ah, yes. LifeSiteNews. The Freeper’s New York Times.
A thousand curses of scabs and poxes upon thee, K-Jello, for taking the sexy out of pale and doughy! Must you ruin ALL my fetishes?
I noted under the furry section that my Google had messed up and all my banners and javas and apples had gotten cross-wired, and I am pretty sure that I just won Campbell Brown.
Please share my joy.
K-Lo wants to hang around CNN for the Christmas party. They’ve got chicken pot pie.
Metropolitan of Luv: I’d like to win Campbell Brown. I’m pretty sure she’s well-groomed, which I like. Meanwhile K-Lo’s toot-toot is an unkempt dogwood, gnarly and infested.
I love how the comment box sneaks up to blot out Campbell’s face.
It’s a story about K-lo, but why the pic of Meatloaf?
Scandalabra: I want to buy that blazer–and I mean that particular blazer that she wore for the the photoshoot. Plus anything else she might have worn that is on offer.
“In Your Face” would have been a nice way to round out the No Bias. No Bull. claims in that CB ad.
(Snark aside: Wonkette advertisers, WE LOVE YOU!)
Conscience n. an elevated sense of right and wrong, typically cited by people
- trying to justify being a jerk (”I cannot vote for any (black) candidate who has associated with a crazy preacher, because my conscience tells me so”)
- congratulating themselves on managing to behave normally (”I found a wallet and would have just pocketed the money, but my conscience would have gnawed at me, so I didn’t, because I’m such a damn terrific human being.”)
K-lo,
The Chuck-E-Cheeze band said that they want you back. The whole ‘Skee-Ball tickets for abortions’ was just an inappropriate joke. All is forgiven. They even promised to keep your litter box clean.
She’s the spitting image of Rosie, both needed to be aborted. Noting worse than a fat dyke, except a fat high-on-her-horse hetro. Does she have kids, ’cause like you would ever fuck her, even if if your drunk and she’s the only willing girl in the bar…
omigod the visual of her using a cat-box…oh god barf…
Dear KJL,
You are the reason for morning after pills and I’d gulp down a hand full right now if
when has she stabbed the gays? someone direct me to a link…i wanna send that bitch an email even she can understand…
Servo:
I just about sprayed wine all over my keyboard. Nice nice very nice.
Today we are all fat, neckless, twats …. with dictionaries.
Who cares? Campbell Brown’s show is starting!
Wow, ok, you know, I wasn’t a fan of Blaggo, had no intention of ever becoming a fan. But Kathy Jean here has managed to unearth the one thing this man could do I would stand behind.
Yes, Kathy Jean, pharmacists should be required to fill perscriptions written by doctors, and they should be required to sell over the counter medication “over the counter”, and if for some reason they have stumbled upon a moral “code” that prevents them from doing their “job” their asses should be “fired”, and if it took an intervention by Illinois’ completely irredeemable governor to do that well, at least his cojones were good for one single decent thing.
Staring at K-Lo. Staring at Campbell Brown. Staring at K-Lo. Staring at Campbell Lo. Staring at K-Growl. Burble drut Lobrown no biz bull K….
I don’t get the Campbell Brown channel. Is she related to Aaron Brown’?
Is that a thought provoking NY ad agency making me look at the right hand bottom part of the screen?
Fingers crossed for tits and lips for CB for XMAS.
Conscience is what leads Jains to make sure that no damage is done even to the lowliest insects - unlike K-Lo and the rest of us turds, who should be put away in jail, for lacking all conscience whatsoever.
A Jeebus blowhard that looks like a Goth pufferfish has pretty much zero credibility. Go back to the damp shadows, please.
Campbell Brown: (sung) Open the door for your mystery date …
That David Vitter who liked to poop in his man panties while 7-star hookers tended to his poopy tush with baby wipes never forced pharmacists to give out RU-486 like candy. He’s a HERO to K-Lo.
And the hookers and Vitter aren’t gay. They’re red-blooded kinky All-American patriots who don’t force pharmacists to give out RU-486. Only baby wipes. Hip Hip Hoorah!
David Vitter is K-Lo’s greatest hero!
Does the NRO still do that cruise thing where for several thousand dollars you can cruise around with Ms. Lopez, Jonah Goldberg and their token Indian? Guests are warned not to get between Ms. Lopez and buffet table.
Perhaps a childhood tragedy left him scarred? Hell yea, just like George W Bush, Blago was SHIT, not passed through the birth canal. Perhaps “narcissistic personality disorder,” which is a medical disease? NO, NO, NO, you moron, not a medical disease, medicine is a science, not an adjective. And finally, this…. Perhaps lingering depression? Simple greed? For humanity’s sake look around. We have people that jack off to the tune of 50 Billion in fraud. Blago is a punk, just like George Walker Bush, who would as soon wrap his lips on a stiff one, as do something really stupid.
good god! she is unattractive on so many levels
pdiddycornchips: Jonah (the Whale) Goldberg has crushed his share of slow footed passengers who lingered too long at the desert bar.
WoundedVeteran: Obviously the only thing this blob chews up - and spits OUT - is the English language.
Lopez is so pro-life, many mistake her as being pregnant.
She’s no Campbell Brown.
Sorry, boring quickly with Ms. Brown’s faux hawtness: too much photoshopping here. Listening to her strident, niggling voice is not conducive to the hawtness meter. She will win an ambition contest though. Glad Wonkette can pick up the ad bucks, but competition for Keith O? Dream on. She’s Wolf Blitzer in a bra. Pretty worked in the Bush years. Someone resend the memo to CNN. I don’t care about bias or bull. I want brains and facts: Rachel Maddow.
the last time I referenced a dictionary, I was desperately creating paragraph filler in high school. IIRC, subterfuge was the word.
Still use it now and again: “Blago possessed a keen, finely honed sense of subterfuge, but it was the unexpected hookers at the pharmacist convention who sort of did him in in the end.”
BAD CAMPBELL BROWN…! STOP TAKING OVER MY SCREEN…!
SHOO…! SHOO…!———————————–>
PsycGirl: that’s not rosie o’donnell. rosie o’donnell’s the one under the desk.
kudzu: (Shhh. Don’t tell Ken. You can configure you browser to block of Campbell.)
kudzu: No bias, no bull. Know Bias. Know Bull.
Gaaah! Calling KJL “unattractive” is an insult to unattractive things living underneath giant mushrooms everywhere. Now, Campbell Brown, on the other hand…
pdiddycornchips: Yup. Coverage from last year’s extravaganza:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2007/06/in-the-latest-i.html
But wait - there is more! Next year’s cruise is in the Aegean, and it features both Tony Blankley AND Dick Morris! Don’t get between them and the buffet.
http://www.nrcruise.com/
Campbell still has yet to return my calls.
Someone should hit K-Lo in the eye with an Al Jazeera microphone.
Or, as the late, great, George Carlin said: “Didja ever notice that women who are against abortion are ones that you wouldn’t want to f@ck anyway?”
Do these people think of anything but abortion?
Oh, yeah–the gays. Will someone just throw a shoe at that damn woman?
Here’s a fun fact about Campbell Brown from Wikipedia. Her first name is Veronica, and she is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. A five-time Olympic medalist, she is the reigning Olympic 200 m and World 100 m champion.
Fast women! Yes-Yes!
https://www.nmnathletics.com/pics28/400/XY/XYQGPPSJPAGFRVZ.20080730221320.jpg
For the love of Jeebus! Stop feeding Campbell! She’s gonna `splode!
K Lo is fat. Oh and her moral stance on reproductive issues have ramifications that muddy the issue. And she’s like a size 12 or something.
randomsausage: UR AWESOME. I could not for the life of me think of what horrific image she conjured and it was vexing me, but you my friend have nailed it on the fat, giant head.
And re: Campbell, why do so many attractive women get hotter when they have babies? I believe it’s a Darwinian plot to make me want to have babies. That and their stupid cuteness. Also Darwinian.
DustBowlBlues: It would just go into orbit around her, or be burnt up in her atmosphere.
WTF is wrong with her? Did she eat the marshmallow man from Ghostbusters? (This is the first time I’ve seen her, and now I has a sad.)
slinkimalinki: I just puked a little bit in my mouth. Kthxbai.
Keram2: Me thinks you left off a few zeros on her waist size…
donner_froh: Her panties? Yummzzz.
He doesn’t sufficiently hate the gayz either: http://i34.tinypic.com/24gmx5y.jpg
K-Lo is so nasty… there’s something really creepy about people who are all proud of their virginity. As though she didn’t make Mittens earn that NR endorsement the hard way (I just made myself a little sick)
CARCUNTZ!(tm)-R-Us: **Re-examines image and shivvers** Yes! Quite a few zeroes, actually.
She’s like a terrible car accident: Horrific to look at, but you can’t pull your eyes away.
ZOMG!! I WANNA WATCH HER EAT A BIG-MAC!! I BET THAT HAS MORE PUKE POWER THAN THE “TWO GIRLS, ONE CUP” VIDEO!!!!
“Abortifacient?” - at first I thought she said “abort a fat chick.” Darn. Still, all her fancy pants wordsmithery doesn’t disguise the fact that she will forever be sitting there in her lipidotic excess wondering to herself - “…morning after WHAT?”
DoctorCulturae:
Sure Campbell Brown’s got faults, but who hasn’t? Olberman is such an Edward R. Murrow wannabe that he’s almost unwatchable. And Campbell ain’t no Wolf Blitzer in a bra. She’s Chris Matthews in a bra. Only Wolf Blitzer can be Wolf Blitzer in a bra.
Oom, oom good, that’s what Campbell’s schtup is, oom, oom good.
Symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder:
Persistent attitude of entitlement
Haughty, arrogant demeanor
Insensitivity to others’ needs and emotions
Egotistical, self-serving, unwilling to admit flaws
sounds like…… Kathryn Jean Lopez.
PsycGirl: or a wonketeer…. but i am perfect, so what do i know? hehe.
CARCUNTZ!(tm)-R-Us: I forgot…in NPD, all these grandiose beliefs are not grounded in reality. Therefore wonketeers are exempt from this diagnosis. Because wonketeers really are all that.
Is that Jack Black with a wig?
You know that scene in “A Clockwork Orange” where they strap down Malcolm McDowell and prop open his eyes and force him to watch films of atrocities as aversion therapy to stop him from committing random acts of violence - they should get sex addicts and strap them down and prop open their eyes and force them to watch Ms. Lopez try unsuccessfully to clean the folds of blubber around her unused vagina. That will stop them from having any interest in sex ever again.
Blago is a Christian.
Blago is corrupt.
Kathryn Jean Lopez is a Christian.
Therefore, Kathryn Jean must be corrupt.
So obvious, it makes my weiny stand up.
Behold: K-Lo in potato form
Behold: K-Lo in potato form
I defines conscience as that little voice
that tells you “Someone may be watching!”
the Definer
shortsshortsshorts: shorts, I was referring to all the pharmacists who live south of I-80, in the midwest equalivilent of central Alabama. The pharmacists who are in Deerfield and North Chicago at the big pharmacuetical companies physically do not have souls or consciences so they’re excluded (I guess we can include Caremark and Walgreen’s corporate too)
It’s nice to see that Spanky from the Little Rascals has matured so well.
polichi: Do not Fear. We can kill those fuck bastards too. Or not. I HAVE NO IDEA CAMPBELL IS SPEAKING TO ME.
The Illinois House stayed in session late, and voted to launch an impeachment investigation, starting 10 am, Tuesday:
{State Journal-Register} The Illinois House voted 113-0 Monday to authorize an impeachment investigation of Gov. Rod Blagojevich but skipped a chance to strip Blagojevich of the power to appoint Barack Obama’s replacement in the U.S. Senate.
The investigation will be conducted by a 21-member group of House members that House Speaker Michael Madigan announced earlier in the day.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s request that the Illinois Supreme Court disqualify Blaggy still stands, and the Senate will consider whether to change the law to allow the next US Senator to be chosen in a special election. So, Blags is getting hit from three directions. I hear that Alderman Mell is pulling strings to get him called for jury duty too.
Best defense theory: Blags agrees to plead guilty with the US Attorney, who expedites charges. Then Blags trades the Senate seat naming rights to Dubya in exchange for a pardon.
SwanSwanH: Has anyone uncovered a pixxx of said microphone black eye? I want to compare to cut-nuts.
This K is too LO to be a worthy PEZ. Dispense with her. And spit.
kudzu: Yes, we need shoos. Where’s Muntadar al-Zaidi when ya need him?
Stop making me laugh goddammit!!
I’ve said this before so it’s not original (not that anyone here is saying otherwise) but NRO’s The Corner IS NOT A BLOG. Blogs invite comments, back & forth, a discussion. Blog writers are taking a risk, putting themselves out there, almost inviting criticism. They are not cowards. Cowards reside at The Corner. It is not a blog. You cannot leave comments. It is the literary equivalent of fat people farting after a lunch of sulphur and bags of dicks.
In honor of Fat-Lo’s use of a miserably cliched op-ed trope I will use a miserably cliched trope of newspaper letter writers: because The Corner does not allow readers to write comments it should be called The Coward. Or The Cowards. Whatever. Do you have to be fat to “work” there?
We always knew that liberals had no morals, Illinois is the proof.
From cheating Kennedy into the White House with votes from dead people, to Pay Rod and everything in between, anything goes.
Except of course having a differing opinion - that’s when the word ‘liberal’ becomes an oxymoron.
PsycGirl: Exactly. What terrible demons and feelings is K-Lo stuffing down every time she eats a box of twinkies?
randomsausage: Win.
MrNeutral: Your comment needs more stuff about how bad K-Lo’s vajayjay smells…you are a downer..MrNeutral is MrLame-O
Keram2: I’m pretty sure that cunt outgrew a size 12 years ago.
Merriam-Webster defines K-Lo as a pig eyed sack of shit.
I sent a nice email:
The morning after pill is essentially 4 birth control pills taken at once; which makes the female body think its already pregnant and the egg is handled the same way as if the woman was pregnant or on her period…
Are a married couple immoral if they have sex while the woman is pregnant, or if the women may have or may be on her period soon?
By this definition nearly every time a couple has sex and fails to make a baby they are committing abortion; and they should cry with sorrow knowing they have killed an unborn fetus, hold a funeral and bury her tampons and menstrual pads in a cemetery plot for still-born babies.
As people don’t do this you may “Pause” and consider that you may be wrong, and your “Conscience” may have a few logical inconsistencies that you should think through. Please if you can point me to the logic behind your statements, or even a bible passage that says that menstruating after having sex that month is wrong I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank You,
P.S. Blagojevich’s standing on the morning after pill, or being a Democrat has zero relation to what a immoral scum bag he is; and has nothing to do with Obama. Again a class in Logic would help, the short version is “A implying B and A implying C does not mean B implies C”
rocktonsammy: You’re a better man than I if you’d hit her. I wouldn’t fuck K-Lo with Bill Kristol’s dick.
Gosh, I didn’t know that on top of mentally impaired she was so hugely ugly. No wonder why she is so bitter. I wished I hadn’t seen her, I cannot think of anything fun, cool, or decent now.
wildeoats: Oh I would hit her alright– with a shoe!
“Power corrupts, especially in Illinois…” ? ? What a strange position for the Lollypop Guild to take.
Can I be a pharmacist? My religion requires that I be illiterate, so it’s pretty much going to be a crapshoot which medications my customers get. But you can’t tell me that MY REFUSAL TO CORRECTLY FILL PRESCRIPTIONS WRITTEN BY DOCTORS disqualifies me to be a pharmacist because freedom of religion amirite?
[dicated by the pious Mel David to an evil literal heathen, 12/16/2008]
Wait now…K-Lo has a good reason, a damn good reason, to be so upstanding about birth control issues. After all, she knows in her good Christian heart of hearts, that, had it been widely available when she was first concepted (do NOT TRY to imagine this!!!), she surely would not be here today to protest….that, and because we have no death penalty for idiots….
chascates: sk1win: This interview with Blagojevich is over the top!
http://punkeconomics.blogspot.com/2008/12/rod-just-wont-leave-me-again.html
This interview with Blagojevich is over the top!
http://punkeconomics.blogspot.com/2008/12/rod-just-wont-leave-me-again.html
Toomush Infermashun: This interview with Blagojevich is over the top!
http://punkeconomics.blogspot.com/2008/12/rod-just-wont-leave-me-again.html