You may have thought that Karen Handel, who was to public policy at the Susan G. Komen Foundation what Wille E. Coyote is to rocketry, waddled away from the Komen Foundation last week in disgrace, but you would be wrong wrong wrong. In fact, by spearheading the Aborting The Abortionists Most Awesomest SuperSecret Plan Evah, she made the Komen Foundation so popular that she had to get out of the way so that they could use her office to stash all of the extra money and presents and trophies and Duggar fanfic that people were sending to them because she is a giver:
Handel noted that Komen received a fair amount of support for its decision to cut funding, with “emails into Komen running 3 to 1 in support.” She added, “Within two days of the news, online donations were up 400 percent. It wasn’t like there wasn’t support for this. It was just being drowned out by Planned Parenthood. Komen doesn’t have the strength in the area of social media.”
Drats!
And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kid killers at Planned Parenthood..





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Heh, and a
starmeme is born.The audience gasps as Karen plays her plausible deniability card. (Fade to black.) Stay tuned for our next episode of ‘As the Lie Blossoms’. Who knows what lurks in the hearts of ‘ladies agreements’.
Another right wing victim of the left wing democrat machine – just like Herman “Sexytime” Cain. Maybe she should have tried to eat her way out of this mess, as a kind of protest against Planned parenthood forcing their abortion agenda DOWN HER THROAT.
Just waiting for the Maker’s Mark and Percocet to kick in.
Clueless and tone-deaf….maybe vindicative, as she seems to want her revenge on Komen…nice cast, there. STridently not pro-choice. Maybe she should learn to tend to her own business.
And this fail parade ain’t over yet, if Sally Quinn’s “you’ll never be the belle of the ball in Washington again!” open letter to Nancy Brinker in the WaPo is any indication.
It was just being drowned out by Planned Parenthood. Komen doesn’t have the strength in the area of social media.”
Huh? For an organization that has grown to a massive marketing machine through slick and deceptive promotion and spin, that’s quite a stretch.
Coach Handel: Come on team! It’s only half time and the crowd is behind us! We’re kicking their butts! We’re…..
Team Pink: Uh…coach. It’s not half time. The game is over. We lost 47-0. And the owner wants to see you. Bring your playbook.
Is there a local news Anchorperson in any city of any size that isn’t either advertising for the SGK run, participating in the run or yakking about the run every year? No, there isn’t. They have had a tremendous marketing machine which, up until this fiasco (and I will never give them a dime again), had big advertisers and every local and national personality shilling for them. So, do I feel sorry for them and their poor, pitiful weakness against the behemoth that is Planned Parenthood? Not for one second.
And, oh by the way, drawing attention to themselves the way they have has also drawn attention to their insane salaries and overhead. I’ll stick with Doctors Without Borders, thank you very much.
If Handel thinks she can spin this as a win for Komen, then I would like to introduce her to a Greek king named Pyrrhus.
“One more such victory and we are lost.”
Nuthin’ times nuthin’, sugar – still nuthin’.
Quick O/T: TBogg, paging Mr. TBogg, please come to the Himalayan Pink Megan McArdle Beatdown Courtesy Phone…
Shameless and clueless…this woman is clearly a shoo-in for a prominent position at the Heritage Foundation. Perhaps she can moonlight by filling in for David Brooks when he’s on vacation….
Love her “update” at the end: “Commenters point out that I’ve misread it.” Perhaps she should save us all time and trouble and just put a disclaimer at the top of all her columns: “Math & comprehension may be faulty, logic sorely lacking; not legal in all states; do not try this at home…”
No shit. It’s February. Everyone’s donated out after getting their contributions in before the end of the tax year so that they can claim a portion back in April.
Exactly. She’s Sally Quinn with a thesaurus.
Hey! Don’t diss them and their 400% increase in this economy!
$48 is still $48!!
Which will also be Handel’s approximate yearly (non-wingnut welfare) wages through 2019.
~ Harry R. Sohl
So a nonprofit empire based on manipulation of opinion and emotion is…. vulnerable to manipulation of opinion and emotion. Gosh.
So PP is a “big bully” who “unleashed Armageddon”. Some people never outgrow the Drama Queen phase of adolescence. The seem to be all conservatives, too.
Can’t Handel Anything is a liar.
Brinker the Blinker is a liar.
Komen are liars.
The overpriced Komen crisis comms are liars.
Gooper media and political whores are liars.
May they all be struck mute. Blind and dumb that’s a given.
Enough said.
Dear Karen, a non-profit organization whose donations are really up in the amounts your 400% would indicate during a firestorm of negative publicity not only doesn’t backtrack, they double down. They do not request the resignation of the brilliant Karen Handel. They openly and publicly state how much money they have raised in the last two days and point out that the people complaining are not representative of the nation. Sorry, considering that Planned Parenthood announced amounts, and that they got a matching funds donation from Bloomberg of 250,000 dollars, anyone with a background in charitable fundraising and the world knows that Komen got slammed, your views are representative of a small portion of America and your misogyny actually harmed the very charity that you were supposed to help – possibly irrevocably. In a world not inhabited with idiots and bigots you have a hard time getting a job serving fast food burgers, fortunately for you the idiots have been breeding (which could explain your stand).
Love that Komen claimed “donations went up 400%” without the actual figures. (because they’d only received $1, the day before?)
Gee whizickers, Planned Parenthood announced every hundred thou, they raked in after Komen went all batshit.
And let’s keep in mind that Handel was making big bank, for a high school graduate who screwed the rep of a multi-million dollar charity.
Next time you might want to hire a college grad, Komen. Who didn’t matriculate from the batshit loon wingnuttia school of hard knocks.
Having fun Jackals?
Enjoy the rape. Obama forbid that this woman might not agree with you.
Fucking animals.
Funny the way you see Handel’s efforts thru Komen to politicize women’s health into an anti-abortion and anti-contraception issue and to impose your prospective on folks that don’t believe the same way as totally reverse from what actually happened. Funny the way they teach you to denigrate the other side in an effort to subjugate them. Funny how it doesn’t work on us.
According to the Acme Nit Catalogue, it’s ‘Coyote, Wile E.’
She thinks she is tending her business. Voyeurism by any other name.
She sounds like VP material. Are Rick, Mitt and Newt paying attention?
And like Wile E. Coyote, Karen Handel will magically appear in the next scene heading some wingnut organization without a scratch on her, as if nothing ever happened.
Conservatives can’t hold a little thing like complete and utter failure against a member of the tribe – there’d be no one left. It’s the one area of life where they live the adage about glass houses.
It sounded better in the original German.
Is Karen the brain trust behind the Komen Fundation’s “pink handgun?” When I saw that–and realized it WASN’T an Onion article–I swore off buying that pink crap forevah!