Taking Heat Over Mother Teresa
Inappropriate, disrespectful, and misleading
By California Yankee Posted in 2008 — Comments (9) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
A Catholic advocacy group is urging New York Senator Hillary Clinton to remove an image of Mother Teresa from a campaign video narrated by former President Bill Clinton:
"It is wholly inappropriate, disrespectful and disturbing that Hillary Clinton is using an image of Blessed Mother Teresa as a political tool, especially given their radically different views on abortion," said Fidelis President Joseph Cella.
He noted that Mother Teresa fought to protect unborn children, while Hillary Clinton "staunchly supports abortion on demand in all nine months of pregnancy, including partial birth abortion and taxpayer funding of abortion."
A shot of Mother Teresa standing with then-First Lady Hillary Clinton appears in the five-minute campaign video. The video then cuts to a clip of Mrs. Clinton's address at the 1995 Beijing Conference, in which she says, "It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights." The Beijing Conference tried to declare abortion a fundamental human right, something the video fails to mention. The video of Hillary's campaign video is available here.
Mother Teresa sent a letter to the 1995 Beijing Conference in which she condemned abortion:
That special power of loving that belongs to a woman is seen most clearly when she becomes a mother. Motherhood is the gift of God to women....Yet we can destroy this gift of motherhood, especially by the evil of abortion .... No job, no plans, no possessions, no idea of 'freedom' can take the place of love.
It was a huge mistake on the part of Hillary to allow the video to cut from the picture of Hillary and Mother Teresa to the Beijing Conference. Inappropriate, disrespectful and misleading.
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Megalomaniacs do not make good leaders for a Republic. She would make a far better
dictator.
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison
Like any other self-respecting semiliterate layperson, whenever I see behavior like this from the Clintons I try to think of historic parallels in literature and the arts to attempt to compartmentalize these people and unravel their decrepitude, and I usually come up empty-handed...
Except that tonight, I watched that ad. again -- and I realized something: It's that Cheshire Cat grin of Bill's, which is always reflexively stamped onto his face even when he's trying to be serious. It says to the viewer: "You know I'm pulling your leg. You know I'm hosing you completely. You know I'm just using you like the worthless piece of helpless garbage I think you are. And you love me for it, and you know it."
He's the living incarnation of Bob Dobbs, just with a saxophone instead of a pipe.
Sort of like in "Alien" or "Halloween" or "The Excorcist". I only pray that someone finds the wooden stake or silver bullet or holy water or whatever it takes - before it is too late.
It just goes to show you that the Clintons have no shame. They will exploit anything that they think will help them politically even the innocent.
They support the taking of innocent life.
I for one could never vote for someone who supports abortion.
I wonder if Mother Teresa would rather be remembered for her amazing work in fighting for the poor and sick, or would rather have her views on abortion (although firm), be made a bigger deal of than her over 70 years of humanitarian work.
Second, as an experienced film editor and campaign video producer I can speak on the comment by the poster of this article that the campaign's transition from Mother Teresa footage to that of the Beijing Conference was "Inappropriate, disrespectful and misleading." I have overseen the production of many commercials that reached audiences of over 5 million viewer and can confidently state that the team I manage was told to make our films transition in a manner that would seem to flow most logically to the average viewer. On many occasions, transitions we would make from a candidate speaking on acceptance of all people to shots of minorities with the candidate or, on another occasion, a candidate speaking abut making our neighborhoods safer to shots of children playing would be assumed to be logical by the campaign staffers.
The people who put together this video were most likely hired help and would assume (without political knowledge) that a clip with a prominent female in history (Mother Teresa) to a speech about women's rights would seem logical.
If someone with similar experience in film production would like to contest my claim I would love to hear from them. On the specific issue of Mother Teresa, this arguement is out of my hands.
But absolutely meaningless garbage. Bill Clinton was featured in the New York Times recently because of his crossword puzzlemaking skills and the man is narrating the video and he knows what's in it.
Give it up. He's a loser, and he knows what the images mean.
This video isn't about what some recent kid fresh out of film school would put together. It's about what Bill Clinton chose to put his imprimatur behind when he voiced it over. Don't give me any claptrap about Clinton not knowing what was in that presentation.
The people who put this video together might have been hired help but the Big Man himself decided that it was Righteous enough to put his voice behind. The buck stops with him. He knows very well what Mother Teresa's views on abortion are. He chose to allow that image to be broadcast in the ad.
Don't try to foist this off on the underlings.
That is redundant...
Sheesh, I was wondering when someone was going to frontpage this travesty. The Clintons are just absolutely beyond any form of shame, and they're completely unconscious of anything except their own aggrandizement. Every time I think they can't outdo themselves, I think "Surely this time they've reached the bottom of the barrel...it can't get any more bottomless than this..." they just search deeper down inside themselves and reach lower. How deep can they go without becoming another form of life?