Posted by: ST on December 12, 2009 at 9:26 am
Hadassah Lieberman, wife of US Senator Joe Lieberman and an accomplished woman in her own right, is the “Global Ambassador” for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure cancer foundation. This is a fact that clearly doesn’t sit well with prominent far-leftist blogger Jane Hamsher, who has been targeting Senator Lieberman since 2006 when she actively supported another far leftist – Ned Lamont – over him in an attempt to get the multi-term CT Senator out of office for straying from the liberal tent over the war in Iraq. Oh, and for the fact that he didn’t treat Bush as the bigger enemy than Al Qaeda. Hamsher, as you may recall, is the blogger infamous for posting the blackface photo of Joe Lieberman standing alongside Bill Clinton in what was most definitely a low point in her vicious attempts at having Lieberman voted out of office.
So, now that I’ve set the scene, fast forward to now, where Hamsher – still targeting the hated Lieberman – figures she can get to him another way: By targeting his wife. Here’s an excerpt from a letter she wrote to the Koman foundation demanding that not one dime of Koman contributions should go to Mrs. Lieberman. Why? Because her husband doesn’t support ObamaCare:
It has come to my attention via an article by Joe Conason in Salon that Hadassah Lieberman – wife of Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) – is currently a compensated “Global Ambassador” for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. It is widely known, however, that not only has Senator Lieberman been an instrument of obstruction to the kind of health care reform advocated by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, but that Mrs. Lieberman is also a former lobbyist for APCO Associates, which represents the interests of the same major, private health insurance and pharmaceutical companies which Mr. Lieberman seeks to protect.
Mrs. Lieberman’s relationship with Susan G. Komen for the Cure is unethical and misleading. Important and often very personal donations made to Susan G. Komen for the Cure to benefit the sick and dying are essentially undermining their intended use. And as Hadassah travels the globe under the banner of Susan G. Komen for the cure, decrying the inadequacies of our health care system and the desperate need to reform it, her husband is at home to kill the reform efforts we so desperately need.
What’s wrong with this picture? As Bill Jacobson notes, quite a bit:
Considering that cancer survival rates under the U.S. medical system exceed those under socialized systems, there is no truth or logic to Hamsher’s allegations that there is a correlation between Joe Lieberman’s positions and the health of cancer patients in the U.S. There also appears to be no truth to Hamsher’s allegation that the Komen Foundation supports the specific public option “reforms” opposed by Joe Lieberman, as Conason notes in his article.
But that is beside the point. Politicizing breast cancer is what we’ve come to in the fight by supporters of nationalized care to impose on the American public a system the majority of Americans do not want. And the fact that Hamsher is a breast cancer survivor is no excuse.
No, it’s not, and it’s also not a get out of jail free Absolute Moral Authority card to peddle the pathetic – and flat out wrong – assertion that because Lieberman doesn’t support ObamaCare that he is “against” any type of healthcare reform, and – via implication – opposes people getting the vital medical care that they need. This is the same type of bull sh*t smear used by embryonic stem cell advocates, as we saw all during the 2006 campaign season, as exemplified by demagogue extraordinaire Claire McCaskill who, along with promiment supporters like actor Michael J. Fox, strongly implied that anyone who opposed embryonic stem cell research (and cloning) was “against” finding cures for diseases like Parkinson’s. It’s shameless, it’s disgusting, and Democrats have got to stop hijacking the debates over healthcare by inserting this bogus, false claim that is in no way true. By continuing this line of attack, it’s the left who derail and unnecessarily prolong debates over cures and “reform” – in effect causing the chronically sick to have to wait longer in order to find out what the outcome will be. And in the process some of them will die during the wait. So, just which side is it that is militantly “against cures” again?
Jacobson also makes another great point about Hamsher’s letter regarding Mrs. Lieberman:
Add to it another nail in the feminist coffin. Since when is a woman to be deprived of her livelihood and her own professional accomplishments because of her husband?
Whoops! We’ve seen this type of two-faced “feminism” before. Just a couple of examples:
- Supporting Bill Clinton – to the point of being willing and able to give him a blow job over his support of abortion and other “women’s rights” – even though he was a lying adulterous snake to whom marital vows were about as sacred as a snotty handerchief.
- Supporting abortion worldwide – even in countries like China, where girls are aborted at an alarming rate due to China’s boy baby favoritism.
Move along here, nothing to see …
It’s always fun to see a leftist use the words unethical and misleading. Those are their middle names.
Wow. I don’t think I’ve seen you this ticked off on your blog in a long time, ST. If Hamsher sees this, her monitor may melt.
Hypocrisy isn’t a monopoly of the Left, of course, but they seem to fall into it more easily because of their “ends justify the means” ethic and the “personal is the political” idea that rose among the New Left in the 60s. That’s what makes the “politics of personal destruction” charge on their part so risible: it’s their specialty.
I have a good friend in CT who knows the Liebermans and especially admires Hadassah. I’ll have to write him to see what his take is on this.
….let us cut to the chase: it’s not about Lieberman. It’s not about health care, either. When you boil these things down, it almost always turns out it’s about BarryO, and giving him a “legislative victory.”
Could you imagine if Republicans had targeted Man-chelle Obama for termination by her employer because of her husband’s votes on legislation?
For all her great work with the Kormen Foundation, I applaud Hadassah….so much work and dedication distastefully rejected by so-called feminists! As stated above, those who do not dance to Obama’s tune are bound to face the same type of treatment. It’s pretty much a protocol now.
I hope all women who have had to deal with breast cancer or who have had a loved one with breast cancer, will rally to her side and place those who use such tactics in their place….of course, the MSM will be noticeably silent. Please contact the Koren Foundation and make your support known!
If Hamsher thinks cancer research is slow now, wait until it disappears under Democrat leadership with health “care” legislation.
The elephant in the jackass room is that the only thing their legislation does (take your choice of which version) is take individual responsibility away and leave all decision-making to the government. It does not improve access (in fact inhibits it), and certainly does not lower health care costs (in fact will increase dramatically those costs over what would have been had the system been left alone).
Obviously, Hamsher is on a personal vendetta for whatever reason, probably related to the fact she has no stones between her legs.
Well, using the liberal’s line of reasoning that anyone criticizing Obama is a racist…it only stands to reason that anyone criticizing Lieberman is an anti-semitic. Therefore, it’s obvious Hamsher hates Jews. End of story.
I think I’ll write the Komen Foundation IN SUPPORT OF Mrs. Lieberman!
Wow, ST. Somebody really put some Red Bull into your Wheaties before you wrote this one!
My guess would be Hamsher. Great post.
I did send a thank you to the Koeman Foundation for their classy response to this hippocritical ridiculousness. Here is a copy of my letter to this blogging IDIOT:
You people are bullies! Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t mean they are wrong! Pressuring the Susan Koman Foundation to pressure Joe Lieberman’s wife in order to pressure and manipulate him is disgusting!
I am a business woman who has given a lot of money to this organization over the years and now not only will I work HARDER for them because they basically told you to go to H#!!, I will also encourage all of my friends and relatives to do the same. You are no better than the creeps on the playground trying to use everyone else to push people around!
Everyone knows change has to happen but you are too ignorant to respect the fact that this man has the courage do make sure it is done right….not just done for the sake of it being done! Only IDIOTS think that these changes can be made so quickly without terrible repercussions for us ALL! Only IDIOTS think that you can throw money at something and fix it without stopping to thoughtfully fix what is broken in the meantime. Use a portion of that money to insure those who need help now and do a thoughtful and careful change. That is how mature people do things….but you wouldn’t know would you? You are acting like a low class school yard bully! Trying to use Hollywood people is even an insult to them! Some of them actually have integrity and the intelligence to see right through your manipulation. Sure, some will jump on board because they are hasbeens desperate for any publicity and you know that. They are insignificant and the people who matter are the people with class, intelligence and integrity. By the way, only IDIOTS thing that the thinking and caring people of America would support your tactics.
Thank God for people like the Liebermans and for those who run the Susan G Koeman Foundation!
Shame on these women who don’t know how to draw the distinction of another woman’s right
to have an independent thought. Jane Hamsher should know that being a cancer
survivor does not endow her with any knowledge or wisdom. This is evident in her
baseless, politically motivated attacks against Lieberman. We want people to stand out in
Washington and vote in the interest of America as a whole, but as soon as someone does they are maligned from every corner.