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Just when you think pro-abortionists can sink no lower…

Jan 10, 2012

By Dave Andrusko

Steven Colbert

Last week I wrote about a shockingly cruel attack on Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum by pro-abortion commentator Alan Colmes, later regurgitated by pro-abortion Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson. I don’t want to give this nauseous  example of cruelty any further attention, but suffice it to say that initially even most pro-abortion bloggers were aghast that Colmes would ridicule the circumstances surrounding the death of one of the Santorums children, Gabriel, just two hours after he was born. Alas that restraint–no surprise—evaporated and a second round of assaults was even uglier.

It is also unsurprising that “comedian” Stephen Colbert would add his own tasteless attack on Santorum, this time in the context of a topic I would have guessed NO ONE would ever joke about: partial-birth abortion. For those who don’t know or who have forgotten, in a partial-birth abortion a baby is all but delivered, then killed when surgical scissors are stabbed into her neck and the contents of her brain sucked out.

Santorum is famous among pro-lifers (and infamous about the pro-abortion set) for refusing to allow these grotesque deaths to be shrouded in euphemism. His 1999 exchange with pro-abortion Senator Barbara Boxer over partial-birth abortions is legendary.

Santorum: “You agree that, once the child is born, separated from the mother, that that child is protected by the Constitution and cannot be killed. Do you agree with that?”

Boxer: “I think that when you bring your baby home . . . .”

By the time their back and forth ended, and Boxer’s extremism systematically exposed, she was reduced to sputtering, “I am not answering these questions! I am not answering these questions” (see www.nrlc.org/news/1999/NRL1199/boxsan.html).

How does that lend itself to a joke?  Colbert referenced an op-ed by columnist George Will in which Will argued that, contrary to stereotype,  “Republicans, supposedly hierarchical, actually are — let us say the worst — human. They crave fun.” Supporting Santorum in Iowa, Will wrote, was an example of that ”human” behavior.

According to Newsbusters’ Brad Wilmouth, “[T]he Comedy Central host joked about playing a drinking game based on the former Senator’s attention to the egregious abortion procedure. After reading from Will’s article, Colbert declared, ‘And, folks, you want fun? Santorum is the life of the party. Heck, he’s the pro-life of the party. There’s this great drinking game where you take a shot every time he says the words ‘partial-birth abortion.’

“Colbert took out a bottle of alcohol, and then showed a montage of clips of the former Pennsylvania Senator talking about partial-birth abortion, inspiring some audience members to laugh.”

I don’t know what it says, if anything, about these response say about Santorum, but that Colmes, Robinson, and Colbert would steep this low says everything about the kind of human beings they are.

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