Last week, Miranda noted that Liberty Counsel is representing Sandra Merritt after she and her Center for Medical Progress colleague David Daleiden were indicted by a grand jury in Texas over their failed efforts to expose Planned Parenthood for supposedly illegally selling fetal tissue for profit.
Liberty Counsel seems to have decided to defend Merritt by attacking Lauren Reeder, one of the 300 attorneys in the Harris County District Attorney’s Office who had nothing to do with the investigation of Merritt and Daleiden, because she serves on the board of the local Planned Parenthood affiliate. But since Liberty Counsel cannot attack Reeder on the merits, given that she disclosed her relationship with Planned Parenthood and had nothing to do with the DA’s investigation, the right-wing legal organization has decided to attack her instead for having once worn “hot pants and a very revealing tank top” to a Planned Parenthood fundraising event.
Reeder attended the Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s “Party Like A Rock Star” event dressed as a dancer from Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video and on Liberty Counsel’s “Faith and Freedom” radio broadcast today, Mat Staver and Matt Barber attacked her for wearing “what looks like a bra but it’s actually a very low-cut tank-top and also, hot pants, very short shorts.”
Even more upsetting to Staver was the fact that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s director of development, Ed Benyon, attended the event in make-up and a shirt covered in blood.
Benyon was clearly dressed as Alice Cooper, which was somehow scandalous to Staver.
“He’s got a white, like almost a lab coat,” Staver said, “and on the left shoulder, all covering the entire shoulder and the left part of his chest, dripping down the left side of that shirt is what appears to be blood.”
Barber, of course, was equally scandalized.
“I guess they think that is funny, somehow?” he sneered. “That’s cute? To wear this lab coat with blood dripping down it? I don’t know if they’re mocking pro-lifers, but it does underscore just how they devalue human life here, that they were even jokingly mock themselves for what they do.”
