A quick protest letter to NPR
Aug. 26th, 2008 07:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaOn August 26, I was stunned to hear Steven Inskeep say that Robert Casey, Sr., was not allowed to speak at the Democratic National Convention in 1980 1992 "because of his opposition to abortion rights".
This is what the blogger Atrios calls a "zombie lie"--a falsehood that shambles across the political scene resisting all attempts to kill it.
As has been documented at length, speaking positions were given at that convention to many anti-choice politicians. Casey was denied a speaking position because he refused to endorse the party ticket and intended to spend his entire speech attacking the Democrat party because of the party platform support for abortion rights. Casey had a great many opportunities to make his views known--no one ever tried to silence him--but no party convention will give a venue to, effectively, an opponent who will spend 20 minutes in prime time attacking the party.
This is what the blogger Atrios calls a "zombie lie"--a falsehood that shambles across the political scene resisting all attempts to kill it.
As has been documented at length, speaking positions were given at that convention to many anti-choice politicians. Casey was denied a speaking position because he refused to endorse the party ticket and intended to spend his entire speech attacking the Democrat party because of the party platform support for abortion rights. Casey had a great many opportunities to make his views known--no one ever tried to silence him--but no party convention will give a venue to, effectively, an opponent who will spend 20 minutes in prime time attacking the party.
