You're not helping your cause

NARAL isn't helping their cause any by airing a commercial riddled with outright lies. Factcheck.org does an excellent job of tearing the ad apart.

The ad will only serve to inflame those who are already zealots and will lose those who have the patience to see through the falsehoods. Roberts deserves confirmation, and lies won't stop it.

For CNN to air the ad, however, is even more unforgivable. The ad clearly is false on the face and is deceptive. I wonder what their rationale is.

UPDATE:

It seems that NARAL has decided to pull the ad after facing complaints from even pro-choice advocates such as Senator Arlen Specter. I loved the double-talk apology from NARAL president Nancy Keenan, regretting that "many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts's record."

I think the only way people could have misconstrued that bag of lies is believing it to be true.