Saturday, March 21, 2015

GOSNELL OBSESSIVES FIND PERFECT GUY TO ENSURE THAT THEIR OUTREACH EFFORT IS A FAILURE

Across the political spectrum, people were horrified at what was done in Kermit Gosnell's abortion clinic in Philadelphia -- but while advocates of legal abortion thought the Gosnell case revealed the need for more regulatory attention to genuine acts of malpractice and greater access to responsible practicioners, the right has used the case as an excuse to tighten the screws on legitimate providers who follow proper procedures. And the case has generated a sustained group self-righteousness-gasm on the right, one that shows no signs of subsiding.

I told you last year that a team of right-wingers had mounted a crowdfunding campaign for a movie about Gosnell. If you wondered whether the movie might succeed as outreach to the unconverted, the poster for the film was pretty much all the answer you needed:



Yup -- preaching to the choir. ("The Doctor Is Sin" -- get it? Get it???)

Well, now the film has a director lined up -- a real Christian, a true spiritual descendant of the humble Man from Galilee.

Nick Searcy.
FX’s Justified star Nick Searcy will direct Gosnell, a crime drama telling what the media refused to -- the story of convicted Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story March 18 and detailed how Searcy felt “both excited and humbled” to voice the “story that many in Hollywood were unwilling to tell.”
You know Searcy -- actor, occasional director (well, one-time director, and that was in 1997), and a guy who spends a disproportionate percentage of his time attacking political enemies on Twitter, just the way Jesus would have.













Should we assume that the filmmakers actually want to make this movie and not merely collect cash and email addresses through their crowdfunding campaign? (They're asking for another half a mil right now.) I assume they're serious -- their executive producer is John Sullivan, who co-directed two Dinesh D'Souza movies that were actually released.

In that case, if the movie really will someday see the light of day, I think they should consider promoting it on Twitter with a @YesFetusSearcy account. It would be written in the voice of an angry, doughy, middle-aged fetus that insults other fetuses for their ideas and their physical attributes. Y'know, something like this: "Yr so fat, lib lardass, they'll have to give yr mom world's largest cesarean scar. #GodsWrath #tcot #BreitbartLives" Yeah, bring it, Nick. You reach so many fence-sitters that way.

Posted by Steve M. at 12:31 PM
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