Who’s the Worst Person in the World?

By J. Matt Barber

It’s not Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  It’s not even Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot or Adolph Hitler.  No, according to Keith Olbermann — that blinkered liberal extremist who plays a newsman on TV — Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America (CWA), is “the worst person in the world.”  

While discussing abstinence education during a recent interview on the Fox News Channel’s Special Report, Wright accurately pointed out that the most strident devotees of that abysmal failure tagged “comprehensive sex education” are most likely to benefit financially when children and teens become pregnant or contract sexually transmitted diseases.

During the interview, Wright hit the nail squarely on the head, saying, “In fact, they want to encourage [kids to have sex] because they benefit when kids end up having sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies and then they lead them into having abortions.  So, you have to look at the financial motives behind those who are promoting comprehensive sex ed.”

And the financial motives are staggering.  According to its own annual report, Planned Parenthood — which receives its lion’s share of profit from abortion — performed 264,943 abortions in the 2006 fiscal year, raking in an astronomical $55.8 million in profit … free and clear. 

It doesn’t take a Phi Beta Kappa to figure out that Planned Parenthood — one of the foremost cheerleaders of “comprehensive sex ed” — has a vested interest in seeing that young girls become pregnant and have abortions.  It’s a classic case of “the fox watching the hen house.”  “Comprehensive sex ed” spells money in the bank because it actually encourages kids to have sex.  It doesn’t work, and they know it.           

Well, Wright’s comments didn’t sit well with the left.  Liberal bloggers went nuts, and in a recent episode of MSNBC’s poorly rated “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” the painfully “progressive” talking-head took issue with Wendy for pointing out this clear conflict of interest, crowning her “the worst person in the world.”

Toward the end of his decidedly obtuse monologue, Olbermann — whose joke writer is also apparently on strike — smugly quipped, “And the condoms the sex educators keep trying to make available to the kids, those are for what … water balloons?” 

Well, Poindexter, yes, in fact.  That’s precisely what kids are using them for.  Take the African AIDS epidemic.  As CWA reported a few years back, Dr. Margaret Ogola of Kenya testified at two United Nations conferences that, “‘family planners’ have put so many condoms into Kenya that the children use them as balloons and play with them in the streets.” 

Tragically, we all know how “comprehensive sex education” has worked-out in Africa.    

Unfortunately, it’s no better right here at home.  Despite a culture that relentlessly extols the phantom virtues of so-called “safe sex” and practically throws condoms at children by the handful, STD and teen pregnancy rates remain high. 

Like a broken record, liberal educators and cultural elites incessantly regurgitate, “always have safe sex,” while the only thing impressionable, hormone charged kids hear is, “have sex!”

Of course, “safe sex” is code for “use a condom,” and everyone knows that condoms are anything but reliable.  It’s like telling kids to walk a paper thin latex tightrope.  There’s a good chance it’ll snap and there’s no safety net below. 

Even radical feminists such as the vice president of the Gainesville, Florida, National Organization for Women (NOW) and a “committee chair” of the University of Florida NOW, publicly admitted during testimony before a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hearing that condoms failed them personally — sometimes on multiple occasions.  If experts like NOW feminists can’t use condoms effectively, how can we expect children to? 

Easy answer — We can’t. 

Look, we know that abstinence is the only foolproof method guaranteed to prevent unwanted teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.  Yet the many successes associated with abstinence education go completely unreported by a biased media, as a handful of rigged studies conducted by “comprehensive sex ed” proponents make headlines. 

It’s a clear attempt to undermine the impressive success of abstinence education, while — at the same time — endeavoring to salvage its failed “comprehensive sex ed” counterpart.  If it weren’t so serious, it’d be funny.  Still, Planned Parenthood is laughing all the way to the bank.     

So, congratulations Wendy.  It’s obvious from the left’s reaction to your comments that you struck a tender nerve.  Anytime you inject truth into the analysis, they go apoplectic.    

And if Olbermann is the chief protagonist for liberal thought, I think the conservative movement is going to be just fine.  Anytime you’ve got Keith Olbermann’s goat, you know you’re doing something right.

Matt Barber is one of the “like-minded men” with Concerned Women for America. He is an attorney concentrating in constitutional law and serves as CWA’s policy director for cultural issues.

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