56 Comments

• mcbreen | Apr 27, 2011, 01:25 PM EDT

  Neither Lady Gaga, or Brent Bozwell's massive private porn collection could begin to shake the religion that I was brought up with. " O ye of little faith".

• joanxis | Apr 25, 2011, 08:30 PM EDT

  Well, Gearoid4, I guess you were right. Can't believe I hadn't heard of it. It happened in Feb. and the anti abortion group, Live Action, sent undercover "pimps" and "prostitutes" into 6 to 10 PP offices. They showed 2 of their videos and the woman working at the New Jersey location was fired by PP. PP said that the woman's actions were "completely inexplicable and inconsistent with what PP does." The videos had been edited and the complete videos and all the other videos have not been shown. Fearing that these pimps were indeed involving under age girls as prostitutes, PP repored the visits by the undercover pimps to federal authorities and the FBI is looking into it. Make up your own mind.

• Gearoid4 | Apr 25, 2011, 08:29 PM EDT

  I forgot to mention the years for the stats that I mentioned. They were for the year 2009 and put on the PP website on February of this year.

• Gearoid4 | Apr 25, 2011, 08:27 PM EDT

  I'm glad to know Joan, that you are aware of some women that PP have helped without any abortions being performed. But according to PP's own figures, they performed 332,278 surgical abortions or abortions using the dangerous RU 486 method. This works out at around 25% of the 1.3 million abortions that occurred nationally in the US for that year. The PP certainly have a selfish interest in the promotion of abortion which is so lucrative for them.

• joanxis | Apr 25, 2011, 07:49 PM EDT

  Gearoid4, I never heard of that particular sting and until I have proof, I won't believe it. On the other hand, there are a few rotten apples in every barrel. Thank God the Democrats stood up for PP. They do a lot of good work. I've never had to use them, but I know women who have and they didn't have abortions. They were poor and that's where they got their pap smears and mammograms. They aren't poor now so they don't have to use PP, but they were very thankful that PP could help them when they needed them.

• Gearoid4 | Apr 25, 2011, 11:54 AM EDT

  I think that you may be mistaken, Joan. The Planned Parenthood organisation was on the wrong end of a number of stings which exposed their willingness to promote abortion in all situations however reprehensible. Two anti-abortion activists in undercover roles in New Jersey, were advised by a PP employee on how to obtain birth control and abortions for under 14 and 15 yr old girls. They were also referred to another clinic which carried out such abortions. Consequently a bid was made to defund this insidious organisation in both houses but unfortunately it failed in the Senate due to it being under the control of the democrats.

• joanxis | Apr 25, 2011, 08:22 AM EDT

  Weil, Monsoonman, I understand what your saying, but I'm not convinced you're right. Don't know enough about how organizations fund their lobbyists. BTW - I don't have a middle name so I've always said I was Joan X. My email address is joan x is @********. Clever, eh:)

• Monsoonman | Apr 24, 2011, 11:49 PM EDT

  Joan: PP is taxpayer supported. PP turns around and takes those same funds and gives them to democrats for their election campaigns and to lobbyists....I was thinking your handle was axis so I mentioned the axis leaders favorite composer who is Wagner and his fav. song which is Valkyrie. It was my pathetic attempt at humor which I see is going down in flames faster than a me-109(German fighter aircraft)

• joanxis | Apr 24, 2011, 10:06 PM EDT

  Oh yuh, Monsoonman, what's with the Vagner and Valkyrie reference? Are you insinuating something about me? If so, why don't you come right out and say it. Don't beat around the bush, dear.

• joanxis | Apr 24, 2011, 10:00 PM EDT

  No, Monsoonman, I don't understand what you're talking about. I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't understand how money is being laundered through pp and funneled into Dems. pockets. BTW - THE COMMENT THAT BEGINS "Since we have resident experts on Planned parenthood here. What... I DID NOT POST IT. How can someone use my username and post as me? I've heard others make the same comment, but it's never happened to me before. What's going on?

• Monsoonman | Apr 24, 2011, 09:31 PM EDT

  joan....axis? Do I hear Vagner playing in the background, perhaps I hear "Flight of the Valkyrie" But what is so hard to understand about taxpayer money being laundered through planned parenthood and funneled right into democrats pockets? Wasn't it clear enough?

• joanxis | Apr 24, 2011, 08:57 PM EDT

  Sorry, but you'll have to explain more than you have done. Don't understand what you're talking about. By the way, I'm proud that I'm an expert on PP. Would you rather listen to someone who didn't know what they were talking about? Strange.

• joanxis | Apr 24, 2011, 07:02 PM EDT

  Since we have resident experts on Planned parenthood here. What do you think of our 75 mill. of our tax money going to this organization which turns around and puts it into the pockets of the democrat party? Is that very fair? Here are the facts.: 2010 pp spent: 700K for lobbyists (our money) 650K to federal candidates(our money) Almost 1 million in indepndent expenditures, almost exclusively to democrats (our money). How much more corrupt do you want to get?

• joanxis | Apr 24, 2011, 05:00 PM EDT

  Gearoid4, Get your facts straight. It wasn't Planned Parenthood where the "pimp" went undercover to expose what your saying. For the life of me, I can't remember the organization's name right now - senior moment, I guess. Here are some facts for you. Abortions are legal. PP does handle abortions. About 3% of it's services are abortions. It is illegal for any federal money to go toward abortions, PP's abortions are funded by donations. PP provides many wonderful programs for women, esp. poor women. PP provides mammos, BIRTH CONTROL,and other important screenings. You might not believe in abortions and that is your right, but don't disparage a great organization that does a lot of good and helps women prevent having abortions. Just my opinion.

• Gearoid4 | Apr 24, 2011, 02:25 PM EDT

  @Katielady, I do not know what branch of Planned Parenthood that you worked at. But it is clear that they provide the biggest share of abortion services in the USA. They have been exposed in a couple of recent stings and one of the stings demonstrated that they were more than ready to provide advice to pimps to abort children that their underage prostitutes may be carrying. It is outrageous and shows the depth of depravity of the abortion industry.

• jack112229 | Apr 24, 2011, 01:26 PM EDT

  The new type of conservatives gave up the honor and integrity of Lincoln; Teddy Roosevelt; Hoover; Eisenhower; and Goldwater.

• Monsoonman | Apr 24, 2011, 12:40 PM EDT

  Lad...My comment about Laddy? (want to see her original long form birth certificate) Gaga being conservative was a comedic comment on my part. Happy Easter to all!

• seagreen | Apr 24, 2011, 10:34 AM EDT

  Lady Gaga ?? Am I supposed to be famiiar with this person.?? Fly the fighter jets over the Superbowl, so NFL owners that have never been in the military can endear themselves to the American public, bring our female members of the military back from Iraq and Afghanistan full of depleted uranium. Continue to lose our young people in battle for a bunch of badges and medals and folded flags( Obama is guilty too) and keep the military Industrial Complex flush. Now these are traditional American values!!!!

• katielady | Apr 24, 2011, 09:36 AM EDT

  first off, get over yourself. This is patently untrue. Sean Blabbity used to be a liberal many years ago. He vowed he would never bring a child into this world.. he lied.. nothing unusual for the Faux News "talking heads" and "conservative" hypocrits. I work at Planned Parenthood. Less than 2% of our total services are for abortion. And on that,as a woman raped brutally and who became pregnant as a result, thank goodness it is legalized now. As a nurse I saw what women and their boyfriends would resort to abort a pregnancy they couldn't handle. Reagan was pro abortion, btw. Conservative claim to be Christian. Since when does Christianity advocate legalization of killing (death penalty) and assault rifles.. They want to "privatize" Medicare and SS. Would their buddies be the major beneficiaries?? For sure! Most heads of insurance companies are Republican. Stop kidding yourself. Liberals are pro middle class, pro businesses that hire, pro education for everyone, pro life; for everyone, including the mother; the antithesis of conservatives.. who propose laws that make the rich so much wealthier than any of us can imagine.

• Gearoid4 | Apr 24, 2011, 09:15 AM EDT

  This columnist is like an oasis in the leftist desert of the IC and makes some salient points regarding the intolerance for religious beliefs of the so-called 'liberals'. The word 'liberal' has become debased and is applied to those who seem to have a tolerance for everyone apart from those who hold religious and moral values. The original 19th liberal/whig figures in Europe and the US would recognize how far removed from their thought that modern liberals are.

• ochshane | Apr 24, 2011, 09:07 AM EDT

  Happy Easter Egg to one and all!

• eibhleann7 | Apr 24, 2011, 08:35 AM EDT

  The only reason the crime appears higher in the red states, is because the blue states fail to acknowledge abortion as murder. If they did, it would be a land slide."...watch the videos from the abortion clinics on YouTube, showing infants with their arms and legs ripped off, and tell me this is not true. As for Laday Gaga, she's a self-serving hedonist that will get hers when the day comes. She is incidental and should not be given a mention. By the way, why are righty conservatives hanging out in drag clubs?

• seanomelbourne | Apr 24, 2011, 02:50 AM EDT

  The right will not except you as an equal phinsman at least not the ones who write here."lady gaga"is a right wing conservative!! if you say so mman.

• phinsman | Apr 23, 2011, 10:48 PM EDT

  I am very liberal and a non-believer, but totally respect everyone's rights to believe what they believe. Even though my family are non-believers, we do celebrate Easter and Christmas, but not in a religious way (except for occasionally going to midnight mass on Christmas Eve for cultural reasons).

• cillowen | Apr 23, 2011, 09:15 PM EDT

  bears a repeat Herod Gadaffi Mubarak Netynaue Henry VIII Cromwell Hitler Paisley were/are of the right. Joe McCarthy was of the right. Trump is of the right. O'Reilly and Hannity of Fox are on the right staying in harmony with their oligarch benefactor Murdoc. and so it goes. 'Pears to be more of the right, tyrants, dotting history pages. Alexander the great, another beauty. Mustn't forget our founders of UK/US/Black/White of the slaver persuasion.

• joanxis | Apr 23, 2011, 08:43 PM EDT

  You're basing the term "lefties" on Lady Gaga? That's a real stretch. I don't know or care what her politics are and I think most people feel the same way. The only people who might be offended by your comments about her would be her fans, and I doubt they care a fig what any of you think about her. The only one she represents is herself. What a silly premise for an article.

• Monsoonman | Apr 23, 2011, 07:52 PM EDT

  I don't know anymore Susanna, what do you think?

• susanna | Apr 23, 2011, 07:46 PM EDT

  monsoonman - what's "Easter?"

• Monsoonman | Apr 23, 2011, 07:34 PM EDT

  Oh yeah, we forgot, Lady Gaga is a right wing conservative, Palin loving, gun toting, white supremacist Republican. Did I miss anything? ...LOL!!!!

• seanomelbourne | Apr 23, 2011, 07:30 PM EDT

  The right love to hide behind little snippets of insignificant information to vilify liberals.Many liberal family's will celebrate Easter with church services and Easter eggs.Your a bottom dweller Farnan.

• Monsoonman | Apr 23, 2011, 07:26 PM EDT

  Oh Susanna! Where's yer Easter spirit? Go out and hunt some Easter sphere's fer cryin' out loud. Go to the hunky Jesus contest in frisco. See the Lady Gaga Judas video...loosen up have some fun!

• susanna | Apr 23, 2011, 07:14 PM EDT

  Ed Fartnan said: I find it interesting that these "brave" leftist "avante garde" artists, can mock Christianity without fear of repercussion." What do you mean by "fear?" What am I afraid of, the "christian" police? Egads, Fartnan, you are out in left field!

• susanna | Apr 23, 2011, 07:05 PM EDT

  Does anyone notice that the photo of Ed Fartnon has him hiding behind sunglasses and under a rock, uh I mean hat? If I were as stupid as he is, I would do the same.

• susanna | Apr 23, 2011, 07:02 PM EDT

  Irishlassred: I agree with you about the JFK movie. I could only watch it for a few minutes. It was so weak and stupid.

• jmchrystal | Apr 23, 2011, 06:22 PM EDT

  How does Lady Gaga's latest publicity trick represent "The Left". The author must be a" flat earther" and missed the news of the fine Christian minister that burned the Koran.

• Irishlassred | Apr 23, 2011, 05:17 PM EDT

  Ps - that Kennedy "show" was awful... just stupid awful forget being based on lies. Just suck awful

• Irishlassred | Apr 23, 2011, 05:16 PM EDT

  How the feck is her music - the left? It's her music. If you don't like, turn the station. Gawd almighty get over yourself already.

• Pittsburghkid | Apr 23, 2011, 04:56 PM EDT

  The only thing sacret to the left is Abortion and legal sucide. The Left is a culture where pain should be avoided at all cost. Ironicly the left is afraid of Muslims, because Muslims will kill you for being an infidel. While Christians follow the teaching of Christ by turning the other cheek. Which brings about the Crusades, yes Christians killed in the Crusades. Only after turning the other cheek.

• Monsoonman | Apr 23, 2011, 01:52 PM EDT

  Yes we do take offense when our dominant culture is cast aside and trampled so that a small minority can "feel comfortable". If you are going to make your home here and call yourselves citizens, assimilate into OUR culture, it's not the other way around. If you don't feel "comfortable" here go back to where you do. Not being bigoted or racist if you can comprehend what I am saying, I want the country to keep it's glue that holds it together, otherwise it is a tower of babel with a bunch of special interests who want what they want for themselves, but not caring about the country as a whole.

• quixotic | Apr 23, 2011, 01:29 PM EDT

  I really don't understand what Farnan is saying. Lady Gaga is hardly the spokesperson for the Left, thank god. Otherwise we would have just as repugnant a contender as Palin, Trump, Hannity, Beck, Malkin, et. al. Gaga is who she is - an entertainer that depends on shock value. She has obviously succeeded. Christians need to try to understand that it is sometimes distressing to children (e.g., Jewish and Muslim) who are in schools, etc. and feel that they are total outsiders and too different because they are not experienced or part of the dominant culture. "Sping Spheres" is not an instruemt of attack on Christianity; it is a rather lame attempt to protect kids in public schools from discomfort when pressed with religious symbolism of which they are not a part -- Christians REALLY take offense because of Easter Eggs?????

• Monsoonman | Apr 23, 2011, 01:07 PM EDT

  Hitler was on the right? Excuse me he was a socialist. Does National SOCIALIST German Workers Party ring a bell? He was just another dictator promising his masses a free ride and they fell for it. Sound familiar for who we have in the whitehouse today?

• cillowen | Apr 23, 2011, 01:00 PM EDT

  Herod Gadaffi Mubarak Netynaue Henry VIII Cromwell Hitler Paisley were/are of the right. Joe McCarthy was of the right. Trump is of the right. O'Reilly and Hannity of Fox are on the right staying in harmony with their oligarch benefactor Murdoc. and so it goes. 'Pears to be more of the right, tyrants, dotting history pages. Alexander the great, another beauty. Mustn't forget our founders of UK/US/Black/White of the slaver persuasion.

• slainte39 | Apr 23, 2011, 01:00 PM EDT

  Another obligatory right wing spiel that constitutes Niall's "fair and honest" approach to journalism. Get back to common sense and be done with kind of garbage...it's insulting and worthless.

• cillowen | Apr 23, 2011, 12:57 PM EDT

  Herod Gadaffi Mubarak Netynaue Henry VIII Cromwell Hitler Paisley were/are of the right. Joe McCarthy was of the right. Trump is of the right. O'Reilly and Hannity of Fox are on the right staying in harmony with their oligarch benefactor Murdoc. and so it goes. 'Pears to be more of the right, tyrants, dotting history pages. Alexander the great, another beauty.

• cillowen | Apr 23, 2011, 12:50 PM EDT

  hitler was of the right. Joe McCarthy was of the right. Trump is of the right. O'Reilly and Hannity of Fox are on the right staying in harmony with their oligarch benefactor Murdoc. and so it goes.

• Monsoonman | Apr 23, 2011, 12:44 PM EDT

  Can any of you point me to a cutting edge Lady Gaga video where she dresses up in a sexy burkha and tries to seduce mohammad? Thanks in advance.

• ochshane | Apr 23, 2011, 12:39 PM EDT

  As ye sow,so shall ye reap.

• Monsoonman | Apr 23, 2011, 12:32 PM EDT

  You'll note that the foundations of any country are its borders, language and culture. On every level these three legs of the stool are being gnawed on by the liberal freaks, the termites who have no clue what it is to build a successful society. Our borders are porous, purposely. Every opportunity is taken to encourage multi culturalism and multi languages, purposely. Every chance the ACLU or other front for the left gets to attack our Christian roots/values and capirtalist system...it takes.

• kevinhayes | Apr 23, 2011, 11:51 AM EDT

  Dude, face it, the right are big time hypocrites on so-called "traditional values". Gingrich, Giulani and Trump with their multiple wives are the easy examples but the higher rates of divorce and crime in the red states, as compared to the blue states, are far more pertinent and chilling examples of how the right talks the talk but cannot walk the walk. Leave Gaga alone, she's a great artist, just another of the greater artistic community (Hollywood included) that is largely left wing. You can keep Pat Boone, Chuck Norton and Ted Nugent - good luck with them!

• lokionline | Apr 23, 2011, 11:45 AM EDT

  What does the Easter Bunny have to do with Christianity? The fertility symbols of rabbits and eggs predate Christianity. The rest of the article deserves no further comment.

• jamthecat | Apr 23, 2011, 11:10 AM EDT

  What a stupid thing to say, and of course it brings out the racists and idiots like MMLeprechaun who like to hear this pied piper's ludicrous, fictional music. Something I have found is the people who claim to care about "traditional values" rarely pay anything more than lip-service to them. Same goes for the teachings of Christ, especially as regards Matthew 5-7. You can see their complete disregard by the leaders they choose to follow, the lies they spew and the intolerant attitudes they espouse as they claim to be the "real" victim while trashing anyone they dislike. It's pathetic how obvious and hypocritical they are.

• MMLeprechaun | Apr 23, 2011, 11:01 AM EDT

  Of course not...not with a Muslim in the White House!

• bunkerisland | Apr 23, 2011, 10:14 AM EDT

  You seem to be confusing the insane Lady Gaga with "the left", or are convinced anyone on the left is anti-christian. Waste less time watching TV and you might recover.

• hollabackgurl | Apr 23, 2011, 09:44 AM EDT

  It's probably you the left has no respect for. You totally make stuff up. The "spring spheres" story isn't real. It's made up. Neither is the attack on the Easter Bunny. And it's made up to say you're being victimized when really you're not. That's just pathetic.

• GeorgeDillon | Apr 22, 2011, 03:56 PM EDT

  NOTE: I did not write the post that commences "Your picture there is targeting...". (02:42 PM EDT). Why can't you get even the basics right, Irish Central? Disconnect my name from that garbage post you have linked it to. Your ineptitude is beyond excuse at this stage, Irish Central.

• GeorgeDillon | Apr 22, 2011, 02:42 PM EDT

  A. Your picture there is targeting an "Easter Bunny" which is actually a pagan fertility symbol. B. Gaga is a shock rocker and such behavior is expected from her. If you don't like it, don't listen. I won't be... (well.... maybe once or twice for curiosity's sake...) C. "The Borgias" is an assault on Xianity from the inside as it is based largely on facts. D. Have you forgotten the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that caused such an uproar? Or how about the constant mocking of Scientology? Plenty of other belief systems get just as much heat as Xianity. Now it's true that these events didn't / don't occur during holy times but why would someone mocking a belief care if the time is holy?