Even more on the Komen FAIL
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Here I thought I was done with the Komen FAIL posts for today, when I checked the RSS feeds.
Jezebel.com has a good summary/timeline up: The Complete Guide to the Susan G. Komen Debacle. The closing sums it up perfectly IMNSHO:
in order for Susan G. Komen for the Cure to revamp it’s image as a anti-abortion social club more interested in popularity and profit than actual good works, they’ll have to do some housecleaning. Either that or get better at lying.
and they also have another good read: Susan G. Komen’s Downfall, by the Numbers
Number of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer every year: >200,000
Number of women cured by useless politicking, lying, and doubletalk from charities that are supposed to be helping them: 0
Komen FAIL round-up
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While I have had no use for, and had stopped supporting the National side of the Susan G. Komen Foundation after the infamous “pink KFC FAIL,” I had not had anything against the local/state organizations and was open to them doing good. But the more that I have read about the National foundation, I must now agree with Tbogg:
But the fact remains that by making an unforced error in denying Planned Parenthood funding (in the grand scheme of things, a paltry $680,000) the Komen Foundation exposed themselves as a rats nest of wingnuts, irreparably damaged their brand, lost countless supporters (and therefore millions of dollars), and gave Planned Parenthood an enormous boost at a time when they really needed it. Corporations who have been pink-mailed by the Komen Foundation now have the ability to gracefully withdraw and focus their attentions elsewhere. Other corporations who have been threatened by the forced birthers to withdraw any funding of Planned Parenthood got a glimpse of the type of whirlwind they might reap for making such a move.
As everyone and their brother have written about the FAIL, and that the backtracking was nothing more than CYA (from the Komen press release, emphasis mine):
“We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.”
Just CYA to buy time. I’m not going to lose any sleep over their FAIL, they screwed the pooch, got busted, and we can only hope that real charities will reap the windfall.
The Salon.com title says it all: Komen for the Cure sells out women, again (emphasis mine)
…Komen itself cops to portioning just 24 percent of its funds to research – and 20 percent to fundraising and administration. For an organization with reported revenues of nearly $350 million, that’s still a lot of money for research. It’s an awful lot for itself, too.…
Komen also famously outsources its merchandising. It’s teamed up with the likes of KFC for “Buckets for the Cure” – because nothing says you care about women’s health like a big vat of fried chicken.
Women’s healthcare is not about lace-trimmed scarves and bottles of perfume. It’s sure as hell not about some feel-good, lip-service version of what my colleague Rebecca Traister calls “infantilizing Pepto-ed advocacy.” It’s not even — for anyone still stupid enough to think Planned Parenthood is some giant fetus-killing complex — about abortion. It’s about screening. It’s about treatment. It’s just that simple.
or from the Guardian: By defunding Planned Parenthood, the Susan G Komen Foundation betrays women (emphasis mine)
Mission accomplished, Komen. We are now aware of breast cancer. And now we are also aware that the Susan G Komen Foundation is more about bringing awareness to Susan G Komen and its corporate benefactors than it is about “Racing for a Cure”. Last I checked, a pink breast cancer awareness toaster isn’t a substitute for affordable chemotherapy.
And from PBS NewsHour: Questions Linger About Komen’s Commitment to Planned Parenthood
Even after the Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity reversed course Friday and said it would not halt grants to Planned Parenthood over a Republican-led congressional investigation, a number of observers wondered if Planned Parenthood might eventually be turned down because of other concerns about how it refers women for mammograms.…
The questions are lingering in part because Komen officials and spokespeople had emphasized two different reasons over two days for halting grants to 16 of 19 Planned Parenthood clinics that do breast cancer screenings…
Reporters openly wondered throughout the day whether Komen was leaving itself an out.…
The Sr. Management Team at the Komen Foundation made their bed, now they’re going to have lie in it (pun intended).
No mo’ money for you… [Komen FAIL]
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As we’ve all now heard, the Susan G. Komen Foundation has once again screwed the pooch. Was it not bad enough partnering with KFC to profit from selling fast food? O.K, I could see it was just a poor decision. But defunding Planned Parenthood examinations, nope that proves they’re just tools with a political agenda.
Proof (watch it if you can stand it)
From an email I received from the local affiliate:
By now, most of you are probably aware of the controversy and questions regarding Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s recent granting strategy and performance criteria revisions, as well as their potential impact on Planned Parenthood and other grantees. Like you, the Komen … Affiliate is concerned about these changes and we, in tandem with the other Affiliates in the … Collaborative, are in discussions with Komen National headquarters. Our top priority in doing so is to do all we can to protect you, our supporters, and assure that the funds you so loyally invest in our work locally, are put to the best possible use to advance our community’s mission in the fight against breast cancer.
Sorry, it sucks to be you. No more money from me to you, unsubscribed from all email completed. Buh, bye.
QotD
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
- Dave Barry
Respect my (red hot Catholic) authoritah!
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Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Greensburg bishop, sisters at odds over health bill
Bishop Lawrence Brandt of the Catholic Diocese of Greensburg has declared that religious sisters from communities whose leaders endorsed the final version of the national health care reform bill can no longer promote their recruitment events in his parishes or in the diocesan newspaper.
“He has the right to disapprove a request from a religious community that wants to host a recruitment event when that community has taken a public stance in opposition to the Church’s teaching on human life,” said diocesan spokesman Jerry Zufelt.
“Furthermore an environment of dissent and public opposition to the positions of the U.S. Catholic bishops does not provide an appropriate seedbed for vocations.”
So I as you, how does this related to morality? A group of Nuns who supported health care reform that will actually improve the human condition of your parishioners are “dissenters” yet your Conference, any number of your counterparts, the Vatican, and the Pope have at best hidden pedophilia, covered up child molestation, and looked aside from rape?
I am reminded of an old Cheech and Chong sketch: if it looks like dog shit, smells like dog shit, it probably is dog shit. And to make sure that point of this post is not lost on those who are completely out of touch:
Dear Bishop Lawrence Brandt,
The world laughs at Cartman’s character for what it is as he’s either a third or fourth grader on South Park. You on the other hand are the Bishop of Greensburg.
Cartman’s character on South Park is a sad, pathetic, piece of shit. It seems that you two share those qualities with the exception that you are not a fictional character, you hold a position of respect within your religion, and are old enough to know better and act like an adult.
Me
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