Thursday, Judie Brown, founder of the American Life League, launched herself boldly where no woman has gone before.
Krispy Kreme Celebrates Obama With Pro-Abortion Doughnuts.
While we pause for a moment to scratch our heads and ruminate over that headline, I’ll remind readers that in the 1990s, the American Life League attempted to block the implementation of Tennessee’s semi records access law by signing on as an amicus in Doe v Sunquist. Adoptees scare her. Every time an adoptee gets her obc, a woman has an abortion.
Most recently ALL made an appearance in the Daily Bastardette when Mrs. Brown evinced disgust disguised as moral confusion over Pope Benedict’s Dignitas personae in which her leader called for a halt to the creation of human embryos and hence embryo adoption.
Earlier, Bastardette reported on Mrs. Brown’s angst over a study that indicated that birth control pills encourage women to have sex with men they are compatible with, rather than with men they don’t particularly find attractive or interesting, but whose love juice would strengthen the gene pool.
Now. Back to the present and Mrs. Brown’s Krispy Kreme conundrum.
According to Mrs. Brown:
The next time you stare down a conveyor belt of slow-moving, hot, sugary glazed donuts at your local Krispy Kreme you just might be supporting President-elect Barack Obama’s radical support for abortion on demand — including his sweeping promise to sign the Freedom of Choice Act as soon as he steps in the Oval Office, Jan. 20.
I was expecting to read that Krispy Kreme had injected some mysterious abortificant into its doughnuts or written Abort Now across the glazed face of its lemon filled ooey-gooeys. Nothing that sinister, though. According to the doughnut maker’s press release, Krispy Kreme has decided to offer customers a free doughnut of their own choice on inauguration day.
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD) is honoring American’s sense of pride and freedom of choice on Inauguration Day, by offering “a free doughnut of choice to every customer on this historic day, Jan. 20. By doing so, participating Krispy Kreme stores nationwide are making an oath to tasty goodies — just another reminder of how oh-so-sweet ‘free’ can be.
To which Mrs. Brown replies bizarrely:
Just an unfortunate choice of words? For the sake of our Wednesday morning doughnut runs, we hope so. The unfortunate reality of a post Roe v. Wade America is that ‘choice’ is synonymous with abortion access and celebration of ‘freedom of choice’ is a tacit endorsement of abortion rights on demand.
President-elect Barack Obama promises to be the most virulently pro-abortion president in history. Millions more children will be endangered by his radical abortion agenda.
Celebrating his inauguration with ‘Freedom of Choice’ doughnuts — only two days before the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to decriminalize abortion — is not only extremely tacky, it’s disrespectful and insensitive and makes a mockery of a national tragedy.
Well, who knew that free doughnuts promote abortion!
Bastardette could never make this stuff up. Nor would she want to.
I’ve been highly critical of consumerist “choice” language in abortion, adoption and “safe havens.” I won’t discuss that here since I’d be writing for another three days. That doesn’t mean, however, that the word “choice” is a bad word–or concept–that should be abolished from the dictionary. After all, capitalism, the Constitution and democracy are based on “choice.” Since Mrs. Brown suffers a severe Puritan nature however, that should mean little to her.
Google” Krispy Kreme” and “abortion” and see the drubbing that Mrs. Brown is taking over her doughnut meltdown. While checking the links for this entry I discovered that the crazy press release has disappeared from the PR Wire website. It’s buried on the ALL webpage (top-of page link), though, and available on innumerable other sites. Interestingly, ALL’s front page offers us the bizarre “Anti-Abort and Belligerent Beguiling” essay, dated the same day as the Krispy Kreme missive, in which Mrs. Brown tells us:
Since I am a great believer in helping people understand pro-aborts’ misuse of the English language, I wanted to use the congresswoman’s letter as a good example of why we have to be so careful about the words we use.
and then goes on to linguistically deconstruct a form letter one of her members received from a member of Congress. To read Mrs. Brown’s monomaniac translation, you’d think “choice” actually means “abortion,” not what we do at the store when we pick Tylenol over Bufferin or when we vote for Obama over McCain.
Judie Brown is part of the crackpot brigade that claims adopted people are too irresponsible, too immature, too scary… too, too…whatever….to have our birth certificates. Well, I think she’s too crazy to be left near a computer. Judie Brown and her ilk need to be exposed for the whackjobs they are. For some reason, somebody gives these nuts credibility. That credibility stops with each of us.
Expose them!
I just sent the following email to Krispy Kreme:
Congratulations on your “free doughnut of choice” campaign on Inauguration Day. Don’t let wingnut Judie Brown intimidate your campaign or language. Do not apologize for a “poor choice of words.” You made no poor choice of words. Judie Brown is nuts. She latches on to any obscurity to push her agenda. She’s now made herself the laughing stock of the country.
I don’t live near a Krispy Kreme store, but your doughnuts are sold at a nearby convenience store. I’m won’t get a free doughnut there, but on January 20, I’ll be sure to buy a couple “of my choice.” Keep up the good work and don’t let the crackpots get you down.
ADDENDA: 1/16/98, 1:34 PM The Miami New Times published a piece on Mrs Brown’s free doughnut phobia. The posted comments are pretty funny.
I will be at Krispy Kreme on inauguration day! One doughnut won’t kill me and I will be eating it in protest of this *itch’s specious words. Judie Brown ain’t bad, bad Leroy by a long shot.
Isn’t it funny how some people will assume the mantle of expert or moral guardian with no real experience in the matter?
See what happens when people read too much into language?:-) If there was a Krispy Creme here I’d go “choose” one that is cream filled with chocolate icing!
On a related note, I was offended that my church had a petition out last week sent to all parishes in the Diocese by the Bishop opposing Obama signing that abortion law. I do not see it as the place of religion to urge members to sign something like that from the pulpit.
I did not sign. Not that I like abortion, but I do not appreciate being told how to vote or what laws to support or oppose by the Bishop who is a jerk.
People like that do make me question the wisdom of our founders providing for freedom of speech. Never-the-less I sent Krispy Kreme a note, too!
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Free donut of your choice!
ALL’s crazy misinterpretation of your ad campaign is what brought it to my attention. I guess there really is something to the old Hollywood publicist’s insistence that there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Thanks for your generosity. I was a devotee of KK when in college but have only a Dunkin’ here. I’ll pick up some KK donuts at the grocery store!
This is a good example of how these people link their agendas to issues that have nothing to do with that cause. They’re a hammer and everybody else are nails. They have no boundaries. Everything and everybody is up for grabs. They need to be exposed and discredited and stupidized (I just made up a word), though they seem to do a good enough job of that on themselves if anybody would take a look at them. They’re hilarious, but they are also dangerous because they have money and power behind them.
BTW, around the time Judie Brown was busy trying to keep records sealed in TN, her daughter was out diddling around. But no secret, sealed, shameful adoption for the Brown family. The kid was kept–and unfortunately gets trotted out at ALL events as ALL’s lab rat.I feel really bad for him, and he’s too young to stop it.
Thanks Marley for the link.. The ‘comments’ made my day!
“The conservatives think life begins at conception and ends at birth”, Barney Frank.
BBC, I loved that quote from Barney Frank. For most of them, they seem to think the mother’s importance in the life of the child ends at birth, as well. It doesn’t matter that such a misaprehension has been scientifically disproved. Ah well…they just want life to be perfect…as THEY see it.
The Washington Post and its Sunday Magazine have run several great exposes on demented Judy Brown over the years, but I can’t find them among my piles of papers or on the internet. Vagina cop Brown had previously boasted that her brood would never have premarital sex, so imagine my glee when I read of her bastard grandson Christopher. It was mentioned that his George Mason University student mother was cluelessly baffled by the “mean snickering” of her classmates. I’d love to know more. Catholics For a Free Choice have dirt on millionaire printer Mr. Brown’s business coming exclusively from an antichoice priests’ organization (“leave no pedophile priest without a child’s behind”). More recently, Judy published a very revealing Catholic extremist booklet that was included in a Washington Times’ insert on Pope Nazinger. She admitted using several forms of birth control “because she was unschooled in Catholicism”. She also slobbered all over anti-contraception Paul VI who knowingly funded the grisly Nazi Catholic Croatian genocide of a MILLION Serb “heretics” in WWII. Periodically, I’ve posted on her website snarky challenges to her ruinous dogmas, but she won’t answer or publish them. I’m betting one of these days her hubby is arrested at a fancy brothel and her kids fess up to abortions and molestations by her favorite priests. –Heil Mary
JUDIE BROWN IS THE BIGGEST MENTAL RETARD I HAVE EVER HEARD SPEAK IN MY LIFE. SHE HAS NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN DEFEND THE MOST CORRUPT INSTITUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. EVERYTHING BILL MAHER SAYS IS BASED OFF OF FACT, AND HE IS THE FUNNIEST MAN ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH. THE MAN IS GOD.
oh,
and
Judie Brown,
SUCK MY COCK.