June 7, 2006

If Conservatives Report It, It Must Not be True

Posted by Adam Graham in : Idaho Conservative, The

Alan at Idablue contests Brandi Swindell’s statement that 72% of young people believe abortion is morally wrong. Alan writes:

The World Net Daily does report such a Gallup poll, but note that the WND is a conservative outlet, and note that it says 45% of teens believe abortion should be legal in some circumstances.

I think there’s a few things come out. Does Alan think that WND made up the poll? Or that Gallup just used flawed methodology? His argument hinges on the idea that since polls conflict, the one Brandi cites is wrong and goes on to say:

Perhaps it was embellished, or perhaps it was just said by a Brand Swindell acolyte.

Now, the fact is that if Alan can make all the polling on abortion fit together into some sort of logical consistency, he’s far better at analyzing these than me. I did my best. Read through the Abortion Polls. Alan cites the Pew Research poll as proof that Brandi’s wrong about young people thinking abortion being immoral, yet according to Pew, 70% of All Americans say abortion is at least “sometimes morally wrong.” Americans are conflicted on the issue and you have to remember that just because someone thinks abortion is wrong doesn’t mean they think it should be illegal. Part of the problem with the pro-abortion side is they keep trying to convince us that this is somehow not moral. It’ll be their undoing because the goal of the big leaders to have abortion viewed as a positive moral good.

Then we get this odd attack given that the left attacks Brandi for always hogging the media spotlight:

Last, click on the site’s links to Brandi in the News, then click on the News Releases link. Same list in both links. It appears that Ms. Swindell is in the news only when she issues a news release.

Now, apparently Alan hasn’t read Time Magazine in a few years. In addition, if you do a Google Search, you see Brandi mentioned in Dakota Voice and Boise Weekly. In addition, she’s appeared in the Washington Post, AP stories, Fox News, CNN. Is this even serious. Or is it really that big of an issue they she doesn’t have a full-time web person?

When the left makes fun of your website, you know you’re winning.

1 Comment

  1. Comment by Alan [Member]

    How can something be “sometimes morally wrong”? Isn’t it either right or wrong? If it’s sometimes morally right and sometimes moreally wrong, isn’t this just situational morality? So, the 70% who say it’s sometimes morally wrong are also the same 70% who I guess would say sometimes it’s morally right.

    Maybe you can enlighten me about what’s morally wrong with abortion. Killing is killing, and wouldn’t you say that only God has the right to judge? If we condone the death penalty how does that square with not condoning abortion?

    When commenting on the praying kids getting struck by lightneing, you said, basically, that it was God’s will and that once dead they were with God, therefore better off. Likewise, isn’t it God’s will that the child is aborted, and isn’t that soul thereafter with God and therefore better off?

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