FARK.com: (6920019) "Cry me a freaking river," says Komen's new CEO about totally coincidental new policy to defund groups beginning with 'P' and rhyming with "bland parenthood"

		"Cry me a freaking river," says Komen's new CEO about totally coincidental new policy to defund groups beginning with 'P' and rhyming with "bland parenthood" (jezebel.com)		147
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AbbeySomeone

2012-02-03 06:13:37 AM

It just gets better. DIAF you uppity fundie b*tches.
TFA clears things up for anyone who saw that organization as anything more than a money making machine.

Marcus Aurelius

2012-02-03 06:45:32 AM

AbbeySomeone: It just gets better. DIAF you uppity fundie b*tches.
TFA clears things up for anyone who saw that organization as anything more than a money making machine.

77 cents of every dollar SGK collects goes into the pocket of someone at SGK. That says it all.

The fact that they haven't yanked Penn State's money says the rest. Penn State is under a REAL investigation, and they still get their cash...

AbbeySomeone

2012-02-03 06:52:22 AM

Marcus Aurelius: AbbeySomeone: It just gets better. DIAF you uppity fundie b*tches.
TFA clears things up for anyone who saw that organization as anything more than a money making machine.

77 cents of every dollar SGK collects goes into the pocket of someone at SGK. That says it all.

The fact that they haven't yanked Penn State's money says the rest. Penn State is under a REAL investigation, and they still get their cash...

Anal rape victims don't need abortions silly; besides that - FOOTBALL!
I still want to see the list of common players in the kids for cash Judge scandal and PSU/Sandusky charities. If SGK is on board it's gotta be some big players.
The veils are being lifted.

Diogenes

2012-02-03 10:30:31 AM

Well written piece.

Even if they canned Handel, assuming it's possible, the brand is irrevocably damaged. Well done, Komen. You illustrate exactly what's wrong with health care in this country - money and politics.

Sleeping Monkey

2012-02-03 10:40:27 AM

It's so sad that all of that pink stuff will now, and forever after, be seen as supporting right-wing fringe groups rather than the cause of reducing breast cancer. Way to ruin your brand.

/copypastacrosspost

Diogenes

2012-02-03 10:44:02 AM

Sleeping Monkey: It's so sad that all of that pink stuff will now, and forever after, be seen as supporting right-wing fringe groups rather than the cause of reducing breast cancer. Way to ruin your brand.

/copypastacrosspost

Andrea Mitchell (who has or had breast cancer recently) had Nancy Brinker on her show yesterday. Told her about going to the gym that day and all the pink T Shirts were turned inside out to conceal any Komen-related branding.

antidisestablishmentarianism

2012-02-03 10:59:38 AM

Paris1127

2012-02-03 11:08:57 AM

Diogenes: Well written piece.

Even if they canned Handel, assuming it's possible, the brand is irrevocably damaged. Well done, Komen. You illustrate exactly what's wrong with health care in this country - money and politics.

They should put Handel on the Chopin block no matter what...

Diogenes

2012-02-03 11:13:25 AM

Paris1127: Diogenes: Well written piece.

Even if they canned Handel, assuming it's possible, the brand is irrevocably damaged. Well done, Komen. You illustrate exactly what's wrong with health care in this country - money and politics.

They should put Handel on the Chopin block no matter what...

Handel's Pariah now.

ignatius_crumbcake

2012-02-03 11:17:12 AM

Diogenes: Paris1127: Diogenes: Well written piece.

Even if they canned Handel, assuming it's possible, the brand is irrevocably damaged. Well done, Komen. You illustrate exactly what's wrong with health care in this country - money and politics.

They should put Handel on the Chopin block no matter what...

Handel's Pariah now.

They're probably too Bizet to fire her with all this commotion.

Paris1127

2012-02-03 11:22:09 AM

ignatius_crumbcake: Diogenes: Paris1127: Diogenes: Well written piece.

Even if they canned Handel, assuming it's possible, the brand is irrevocably damaged. Well done, Komen. You illustrate exactly what's wrong with health care in this country - money and politics.

They should put Handel on the Chopin block no matter what...

Handel's Pariah now.

They're probably too Bizet to fire her with all this commotion.

She's Haydn, but she'll be Bach. Mozart really angry with SGK and it's causing Strauss.

Marcus Aurelius

2012-02-03 11:50:05 AM

antidisestablishmentarianism: Marcus Aurelius: AbbeySomeone: It just gets better. DIAF you uppity fundie b*tches.
TFA clears things up for anyone who saw that organization as anything more than a money making machine.

77 cents of every dollar SGK collects goes into the pocket of someone at SGK. That says it all.

The fact that they haven't yanked Penn State's money says the rest. Penn State is under a REAL investigation, and they still get their cash...

Not that I don' t believe you but citation?

Actually it's closer to 60%, but depends on how you read their graph.

rufus-t-firefly

2012-02-03 11:52:39 AM

Komen reverses decision to stop Planned Parenthood funding (new window)

"We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives," the group said.

"We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities," the group said.

Okay, now fire the people responsible and you might regain some credibility.

Kid Lester

2012-02-03 11:53:22 AM

LOL. Decision reversed.

bboy

2012-02-03 11:53:54 AM

This whole business pisses me off. When my wife was a college student, and for a few years after until she got a decent, steady income, Planned Parenthood was where she went for (free) gynecological exams and breast cancer screening.

It's not just an abortion clinic, you fundie dickwads.

p.s. Conservatives don't like poor people.

Bf+

2012-02-03 11:54:43 AM

rufus-t-firefly: Komen reverses decision to stop Planned Parenthood funding (new window)

"We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives," the group said.

"We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities," the group said.

Okay, now fire the people responsible and you might regain some credibility.

But I thought they were getting such positive feedback! They're still sticking with the "Our vice president being an outspoken anti-planned parenthood, pro-life republican has nothing to do with our decision. Can we pretend this never happened?" angle. How many of their recent donations will be pulled?

star_topology

2012-02-03 11:55:21 AM

Handel herself has been largely silent on the issue, until last night, when she all but confirmed what everyone suspected by retweeting- and quickly deleting- a tweet that read "Just like pro-abortion group to turn cancer orgs decision into a political bomb to throw. Cry me a freaking river."

So Handel didn't *actually* say it, but retweeted someone else's comment?

skullkrusher

2012-02-03 11:56:09 AM

This headline is baffling to me

RexTalionis

2012-02-03 11:58:02 AM

Oh, look, now Komen is restoring the funding to Planned Parenthood.

bulldg4life

2012-02-03 11:58:23 AM

The lady who tweeted that comment is a real ball of fun. She's been attacking libs and the pro abortion crowd all week.

seriously, pro abortion?

Bf+

2012-02-03 11:58:43 AM

skullkrusher: This headline is baffling to me

It's referring to "Planned Parenthood"
Get it?

fenianfark

2012-02-03 11:59:16 AM

Looks like they have reversed their position....

Link (new window)

AntiNerd

2012-02-03 11:59:28 AM

rufus-t-firefly: Okay, now fire the people responsible and you might regain some credibility.

I don't know how someone who can project so many bald faced lies on national media in 48 hours could possibly regain any credibility.

"It wasn't political."

"It was all about 'grant quality'"

"We will never make decisions from political pressure."

As far as I can tell the breast cancer survivor families I know will never donate to SBK again.

tenpoundsofcheese

2012-02-03 11:59:51 AM

i never realized how big the charity is.

Raised $2,000,000,000

0bama gave her the Medal of Freedom in 2009.

Dughan

2012-02-03 12:00:12 PM

Thank you for helping to make my shopping just that much simpler, Susan G. Kormen Foundation.

Everything with one of those silly pink ribbons will now be boycotted. Also, I'll be making a donation to Planned Parenthood as a result... the first time I have actually done so. (Doctors Without Borders and Habitat for Humanity usually get most of my donation money, but it's time to expand.)

phritz

2012-02-03 12:00:13 PM

Kid Lester: LOL. Decision reversed.

Heh. Good job, SGK. Now you're a reactionary right-wing organization that also supports baby genocide (or whatever the anti-choicers are calling it these days). Next time they sue someone for trying to horn in on your profitable cancer racket, absolutely NO ONE will be there to defend them.

DeltaPunch

2012-02-03 12:00:18 PM

Paris1127: ignatius_crumbcake: Diogenes: Paris1127: Diogenes: Well written piece.

Even if they canned Handel, assuming it's possible, the brand is irrevocably damaged. Well done, Komen. You illustrate exactly what's wrong with health care in this country - money and politics.

They should put Handel on the Chopin block no matter what...

Handel's Pariah now.

They're probably too Bizet to fire her with all this commotion.

She's Haydn, but she'll be Bach. Mozart really angry with SGK and it's causing Strauss.

And she's not Haydn from the public either, by tweeting how "it's just like a pro-abortion group to be throwing Brahms at us". But as for the rest of the foundation, well, Debussy trying to clean up the PR mess.

Dusk-You-n-Me

2012-02-03 12:00:23 PM

Conservatives find popular outrage about Komen a disconcerting "backlash," but don't object to the obviously political investigation of PP
- Mark Adomanis (@MarkAdomanis) February 3, 2012

I get a kick out of those on the right calling Komen's reversal of PP decision "appeasement" as if the original move wasn't that.
- Duke (@DukeStJournal) February 3, 2012

JAYoung

2012-02-03 12:00:29 PM

Do I, or do I not, buy a Komen-approved pink slide Walther P-22 pistol to fight breast cancer?
I'm so confused....

http://gawker.com/5881982/susan-g-komen-foundation-kicks-off-pr-rehab - by-promoting-pink-handguns

cache.gawker.com

Impasse

2012-02-03 12:02:08 PM

Kid Lester: LOL. Decision reversed.

I can't wait to buy a pair of pink flip-flops.

rufus-t-firefly

2012-02-03 12:02:40 PM

Breaking: Komen Reverses Decision on Planned Parenthood Funding, Is Still Likely Full of shiat (new window)

We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives.

The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.

Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.

Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer. Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.

It is our hope and we believe it is time for everyone involved to pause, slow down and reflect on how grants can most effectively and directly be administered without controversies that hurt the cause of women. We urge everyone who has participated in this conversation across the country over the last few days to help us move past this issue. We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics - anyone's politics.

Horse. Shiat.

A Terrible Human

2012-02-03 12:03:08 PM

JAYoung: Do I, or do I not, buy a Komen-approved pink slide Walther P-22 pistol to fight breast cancer?
I'm so confused....

http://gawker.com/5881982/susan-g-komen-foundation-kicks-off-pr-rehab - by-promoting-pink-handguns

Why can't you just buy a normal one and give the money you saved to a charity that will actually do what their mission statement says?

King Something

2012-02-03 12:03:30 PM

Paris1127: ignatius_crumbcake: Diogenes: Paris1127: Diogenes: Well written piece.

Even if they canned Handel, assuming it's possible, the brand is irrevocably damaged. Well done, Komen. You illustrate exactly what's wrong with health care in this country - money and politics.

They should put Handel on the Chopin block no matter what...

Handel's Pariah now.

They're probably too Bizet to fire her with all this commotion.

She's Haydn, but she'll be Bach. Mozart really angry with SGK and it's causing Strauss.

I simply Kanno fathom why they're running themselves off a Cliff like this. It's too ZUN to predict how things will end up for them, but there's a 1.812% chance it's not all Overture for them.

Bob16

2012-02-03 12:04:06 PM

RexTalionis: Oh, look, now Komen is restoring the funding to Planned Parenthood.

Stay in your farking alternative universe cons. You know you're only gonna get slapped up side the head like this if you venture out into the real world

Loucifer

2012-02-03 12:04:10 PM

JAYoung: Do I, or do I not, buy a Komen-approved pink slide Walther P-22 pistol to fight breast cancer?
I'm so confused....

http://gawker.com/5881982/susan-g-komen-foundation-kicks-off-pr-rehab - by-promoting-pink-handguns

[cache.gawker.com image 300x300]

Yes! it would match my smokes!

babyboomeradvisorclub.com

qorkfiend

2012-02-03 12:04:36 PM

rufus-t-firefly: We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics - anyone's politics.

That's why they hired a politician as their Executive VP of Public Policy. They don't want anything politicized by anyone.

Rashnu

2012-02-03 12:04:39 PM

Publicity, good or bad, can't help but raise the general awareness of the existence of breast cancer. Mission Accomplished.

jso2897

2012-02-03 12:04:56 PM

Not good enough. Handel and her cohorts have to go. If not, they'll just try it again later in some sneakier form.

LabGrrl

2012-02-03 12:05:11 PM

JAYoung: Do I, or do I not, buy a Komen-approved pink slide Walther P-22 pistol to fight breast cancer?
I'm so confused....

Do it if you want, but remember to fill out the tiny pink card at the bottom of the package, probably in triplicate, or it never would've counted for "the cure" anyways.

Or buy a pink can of tomato soup, not fill out any form, and probably help more.

/It is a cute gun, though. It's really cute.

skullkrusher

2012-02-03 12:05:18 PM

Bf+: skullkrusher: This headline is baffling to me

It's referring to "Planned Parenthood"
Get it?

hehe no the part about the new CEO and her saying "cry me a freaking river". I have since seen that Handel retweeted that so that part makes sense now
The CEO bit though, still no.

tenpoundsofcheese

2012-02-03 12:05:50 PM

Virtual Pariah

2012-02-03 12:08:20 PM

Clean out the leadership that started this, and you may survive as an entity.

JustFark

2012-02-03 12:08:53 PM

Komen may have made a mistake in judgement, then news stories start to surface. Can't we kill the stories and start over?

jpo2269

2012-02-03 12:09:02 PM

Karen Handle deserves a hero tag. Good for her. I wasn't a fan of the Susan Koman Foundation before this dust up (thought they crowed out other deserving charities), but I will be sending them a check today.

Soup4Bonnie

2012-02-03 12:09:04 PM

skullkrusher: The CEO bit though, still no.

You're saying the headline is an abortion?

Bf+

2012-02-03 12:09:08 PM

rufus-t-firefly: Breaking: Komen Reverses Decision on Planned Parenthood Funding, Is Still Likely Full of shiat (new window)

We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives.

The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.

Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.

Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer. Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.

It is our hope and we believe it is time for everyone involved to pause, slow down and reflect on how grants can most effectively and directly be administered without controversies that hurt the cause of women. We urge everyone who has participated in this conversation across the country over the last few days to help us move past this issue. We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics - anyone's politics.

Horse. Shiat.

Big 'ol ball of this!

Their ONLY cut-and-run plan that could save them would have been:
We don't know how this happened, it was completely politically motivated, we were wrong, funds are restored, that biatch got fired, and for a limited time all funds will go directly to to the cause without any overhead.

Ardilla

2012-02-03 12:09:45 PM

fenianfark: Looks like they have reversed their position....

Link (new window)

Too late. It took this controversy to see what SGK really is. Unless and until they change their leadership and increase the percentage of their money that goes to, you know, actually fighting cancer, they'll not see another penny from me.

skullkrusher

2012-02-03 12:10:29 PM

Soup4Bonnie: skullkrusher: The CEO bit though, still no.

You're saying the headline is an abortion?

NO PUBLIC FUNDS FOR THIS HEADLINE!!1!

whither_apophis

2012-02-03 12:11:01 PM

what a bunch if silly bunts

King Something

2012-02-03 12:11:35 PM

JustFark: Komen may have made a mistake in judgement, then news stories start to surface. Can't we kill the stories and start over?

Nope.

Can't un-ring a bell.

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