MEDIA LOSER: Breitbart's Rebecca Mansour
Breitbart senior editor-at-large Rebecca Mansour was deluged with ridicule and outrage for tweeting that the pro-life movement wasn’t violent when Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court. The leaked draft has been the subject of enormous and often incredibly contentious debate, but Mansour's thread stood out for the scorn it produced. She wrote: The freakout you are witnessing from the left is very instructive. When Roe was handed down 49 years ago, pro-lifers didn’t riot, didn’t call for SCOTUS to be burned down, didn’t threaten the lives of justices, didn’t try to stack the Court. Pro-lifers (mostly Catholics at first) organized at the grassroots level. They planned an annual peaceful march on Washington. They created crisis pregnancy centers. The got involved in electing politicians. They passed pro-life legislation. They WORKED WITHIN THE SYSTEM of our Constitutional republic to enact change at the ballot box and in the hearts and minds of their fellow Americans. She added "no amount of rioting, violence, fear-mongering, or any other left-wing intimidation," will change the outcome. It should go without saying this historical, uh — interpretation — didn't go over well. At all. "The ignorance of history on display here is breathtaking," read one tweet. Noam Chomsky said, "They blew up abortion clinics with nail bombs and shot doctors dead in the sanctuaries of their churches." Mansour later replied to the blowback, writing she's "well aware" of "violent fringe extremists," but it never changed the decision. In a day of high-temperature takes, Mansour's downplaying decades of reality stood out. |