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A 63-year-old Catholic grandmother says she was attacked and knocked to the ground while filming outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Wilmington, Del. last week.
Rae Stabosz told TheBlaze she’s part of a regular group that prays outside the clinic. On Wednesday afternoon, when she and another woman were getting ready to leave for the day, an ambulance pulled up to the front of the building. Stabosz took out her iPhone and began to film, at which point she said a woman came out of the Planned Parenthood and demanded she stop taping.
“She came out of Planned Parenthood and she was very angry,” Stabosz said. “[She said] ‘I’m going to mess you up so f–king bad.”
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In video of the incident, first posted by anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue, Stabosz narrates that they are calling 911 because they were threatened.
Stabosz told TheBlaze it was about 10 minutes later when the woman returned and assaulted her on the sidewalk as the paramedics prepared to roll out with a patient on a stretcher.
In the video, the woman walks out of the Planned Parenthood just ahead of the paramedics and heads directly toward Staboszs while on the phone. The audio is difficult to hear, but the woman appears to say, “I’ll call you in an hour when I’m in jail.”
“I believe this person may be trying to — ” Staboszs says before she’s abruptly cut off as the woman slaps the running iPhone out of her hand. The phone clatters to the ground and the woman appears to stomp on it. There are sounds of a scuffle and Staboszs yells. The woman is heard saying, “Get the f–k away.”
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“She barreled into me, grabbed my phone and threw it down on the ground and started to stomp on it. I thought if she gets one clear shot at this she’s going to crush my phone and destroy it,” Staboszs said. “She picked the phone up, put it in her pocket and [went inside and] gave it to the Planned Parenthood person.”
Stabosz said she got up and went into the clinic — something anti-abortion protesters are usually prohibited from doing — and demanded her phone back from the receptionist. The receptionist handed it over, at which point Staboszs went back outside and called 911 to report the assault.
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Staboszs said her assailant fled in her car before police arrived, but that the other woman she was with managed to get the license plate number.
Police arrived and took a statement. Stabosz said she initially declined medical treatment but began feeling pain in her head and down her leg and was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital. She said she suffered contusions but no broken bones from when her attacker pushed and knocked her backward.
Stabosz said she received a call from police Friday that they have not yet located her attacker but are continuing to investigate.
Planned Parenthood’s Wilmington Center was closed Sunday and could not be reached for comment.
Stabosz, a grandmother of 12, said she’s been peacefully praying outside the clinic location for the last three years. She said after she was attacked, three Planned Parenthood employees went outside and saw her sitting on the pavement but did nothing to help her.
“We’re not professionals, we’re just people and we’re trying to help people out and help save babies,” Staboszs told TheBlaze.
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Dr. Ben Carson has been hot with conservatives since his well-publicized speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, where he criticized President Obama’s policies while the president sat all of 5 feet away, not to mention his CPAC address this past weekend. But what you might not know is that before he became a hero on the right, Carson was already a minor celebrity, and even got a TV movie made about his life. The movie, titled “Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story,” is titled after Carson’s own autobiography, and follows the life of Carson (played as an adult by Cuba Gooding, Jr.) from his difficult early life through his college years at Yale to his career as a world-renowned neurosurgeon. It originally aired on TNT in February of 2009. 
Apparently, unlike many would-be inspirational flicks that get released on TV, “Gifted Hands” is actually good, at least according to most critics. The Hollywood Reporter wrote an especially glowing review, calling the film “Emmy-worthy” and in a stroke of retroactive irony, the Orlando Sentinel called the film “the perfect movie for a country challenged by its new president to do better.”
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Matthew Dowd, former chief strategist for the 2004 George W. Bush campaign, apparently doesn’t have much of a soft spot for CPAC or for Sarah Palin.
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, Dowd likened CPAC to no less than two prehistoric children’s cartoons, and not so subtly compared former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to Kim Kardashian. National Review captured the one-minute statement from Dowd:
“Matt, you’re just shaking your head. The whole thing, it makes you nervous, what do you say?” ABC host Martha Raddatz asked.
“To me, imagery and who’s there [at CPAC] and what you say is important, and I don’t think divisions are a bad thing,” Dowd said. “I actually think that a conservative message that is built for the 21st century would be a good thing. CPAC to me reminds me of, you know, ‘Land Before Time,’ and it’s like going to a Flinstones episode in my opinion.”
Raddatz asked if Dowd meant CPAC attendees were dinosaurs. Dowd nodded.
“It’s like a bunch of dinosaurs, most of them are like throwbacks in times, it’s like who’s running for Grand Poohbah of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes is what it looks like to me,” he said. “When you have Sarah Palin, who it’s an amazing situation to me, between her and the Kardashians, I think you add it up? Between a Palin connection and the Kardashians, there’s 10 reality shows that have been built around that. I don’t think it’s helpful to the Republican Party. I think there are some people, like Marco Rubio there who will become, and are, stars of the party. I think CPAC’s time has come and gone and it’s time for somebody to put together a 21st century conservative agenda.”
Dowd is the second Bush-era strategist to attack Palin on the Sunday shows following her barn-storming appearance at CPAC yesterday. On Fox News, Karl Rove made a dig at Palin for her failure to complete her term as governor of Alaska.
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Washington Post columnist George Will described this weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as more or less a coming out party for libertarian conservatives on today’s edition of ABC’s “This Week.” In a panel discussion with temporary co-host Martha Raddatz, Will skewered media reports of division and in-fighting at CPAC, instead suggesting that a healthy discussion was giving rise to a more libertarian minded Republican party.
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“Republicans have been arguing — social conservatives and libertarian free-market conservatives — since the 1950s, when the National Review was founded on the idea of the fusion of the two,” he continued. “It has worked before with Ronald Reagan. It can work again. What I did see at CPAC was the rise of the libertarian strand of Republicanism, which has an affected foreign policy that is a pullback from nation-building and other ambitions aboard that they never countenance from government at home, and a sense of ‘live and let live’ with subjects such as decriminalization of certain drugs and gay marriage.”
Will also doubled down on earlier comments he had made suggesting that opposition to gay mariage both in the GOP and in America generally is dying. In response to a question from Raddatz about Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman’s newly announced support for gay marriage, and whether it would signal a broader shift, Will made virtually the same comment.
“He will not be the last, because the demographic tide here is large, powerful and inexorable,” Will said. “As I said on this program before, opposition to gay marriage is literally dying. It’s an older demographic.”
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When ACU Chair Al Cardenas went on Telemundo’s “Enfoque” and talked about how CPAC would “stimulate” conservatives into taking a deal on immigration, I knew that it would not end well. I suspected that any discussion of immigration would wrongly focus on style and flexibility on immigration policy, rather than on a commitment to substantive outreach and adherence to First Principles built upon a healthy respect for the Rule of Law. As you’re about to see, I was sadly proven right.
Comes now my brief video summary of CPAC’s immigration panel, with its inordinate focus on “tone”, “harsh tone”, and “rhetoric”. Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-ID1) finally shut that mess down an hour into the panel, but by then it was too late.
As I’ve stated before, immigration should not, never, not in a million years be the tip of the spear on Hispanic outreach. Policy is policy and outreach is outreach. When we try to use policy as outreach, principle ultimately suffers. The inexorable end result is a fruitless pander which results in compromised principles and a loss of credibility.
Furthermore, conservative acquiescence on “tone” constitutes an automatic acceptance of the left’s narrative language…such as, for example, the term “anti-immigrant” as a descriptor of immigration legislation. And as is the case with conservatives and calls for a “new tone”, “new tone” is almost always synonymous with “submission”.
The other day, I discussed Congressman Steve Pearce within that context. If you haven’t already done so, follow the link so that you may also see an alternate approach that will likely yield better results than the old cave-and-pander approach. Pearce doesn’t do “tone”, and pulled 40+% of the Hispanic vote.
Do note the gentleman on the far end of the panel. That’s Daniel Garza of The Libre Initiative…who refused to get sucked into the harshtone narrative. Instead, Garza rejected those narratives and delivered a stout defense of economic freedom. It would behoove us all to go forth and do likewise.
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NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — Wearing a replica of one of the organization’s uniforms, Madonna called on the Boy Scouts to lift its ban on gays while also calling for a “revolution” to prevent discrimination and abuse of the gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual community.
Speaking Saturday night at the GLAAD Media Awards, Madonna started off in a mischievous mood. She joked that she wanted to become a part of the Boy Scouts herself, but was turned down, even though she had the qualifications.
“I can build a fire. I know how to pitch a tent,” said Madonna, sporting a Boy Scouts troop leader hat and a blue shirt and shorts set that included replicas of Boy Scout badges.
Madonna speaks onstage at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards on March 16, 2013 in New York City. Credit: Getty Images for GLAAD
“I can rescue kittens from trees. Most importantly, I know how to scout for boys,” she said, before adding, “I think they should change their stupid rules.”
The Boy Scouts of America does not permit openly gay people to serve in the organization — a decision that has come under increasing fire over the years.
Later, she got serious as she talked about the conflicts in the world and of the bullying of young gay, lesbian and transgender people.
“When I think about young kids in America who are being bullied and tortured, who are taking their own lives because they feel alone and judged, outcast and misunderstood, I want to sit down and cry a river of tears,” Madonna said.
Noting that she has teenagers herself, she said, “It’s an atrocity to me, I don’t accept it.”
Madonna speaks onstage at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards on March 16, 2013 in New York City. Credit: Getty Images for GLAAD
Later she said, “I don’t know about you, but I can’t take this (expletive) anymore. That is why I want to start a revolution. It’s 2013 people. We live in America, land of the free and home of the brave? That’s a question, not a statement.”
Madonna was on hand to give the Vito Russo Award to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. She lauded Cooper for standing up for the rights of others.
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Also honored by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation was the NBC musical series “Smash,” the documentary “How To Survive a Plague,” and “The Amazing Race.” Brett Ratner was also given the Ally Award — a turnaround from 2011, when the organization condemned the director for using an anti-gay slur, and he stepped down from a plan to direct the 2012 Academy Awards in the ensuing controversy.
Since then, Ratner has worked with the organization and made a public service announcement to promote equality.
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