Posted on 03/02/2011 5:04:34 PM PST by Nachum
On Tuesday's World News, ABC's David Wright highlighted actress Jane Russell's "botched back-alley abortion in high school," which led her to push "hard to expand adoption," but he failed to mention that she described herself as "vigorously pro-life," and that she was a conservative activist.
Wright's report aired at the end of the evening news program. The correspondent spent most of the segment on Russell's movie career, specifically her roles in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "The Outlaw." Near the end, however, Wright noted that the actress was "also politically active," and continued with the abortion issue: "She wrote in her memoirs that a botched back-alley abortion in high school left her unable to have children. Throughout her life, she fought hard to expand adoption."
Michael Thurston of Agencee France-Presse took a similar path in his Tuesday report on the movie star, but more explicitly noted that Russell was not only pro-life, but also a conservative:
...In famously liberal Hollywood, and despite her sex symbol image, she was a rare defender of Christian and Republican values.
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big suprise!!!!!
Rita Hayworth was rather conservative as well. That was a time when Hollywood was a truly liberal place and all different political views were represented. Today it’s a truly fascist place where you’re blacklisted if you don’t tout the far left Democrat, pro-gay line.
“I am a mean, sniveling, hateful, right-wing Christian bigot these days. Despite that, I’m not a racist.”
— Jane Russell
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