Pat Robertson looked to incite his followers on Thursday by misquoting the founder of the American birth control movement and Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger.

Here’s the video





On his show he said that Margaret Sanger didn’t copy Hitler; Hitler used Margaret Sanger as a blue print of sorts for his massive genocide. He goes on to say that every year Planned Parenthood awards a prominent African-American the Margret Sanger Award as a way to lure black people into clinics to have abortions. Robertson is implying that by doing so they are furthering their progress towards the ultimate goal of the ‘genocide’ of the African-American race. There are a couple of problems with Robertson’s claim, the first being that the award is not awarded to a prominent African-American. The following has been taken directly from the Planned Parenthood website to explain what the Margaret Sanger award is for:

Our highest honor, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award, is presented annually to recognize leadership, excellence, and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement.

Well alrighty then, it doesn’t say that the award will be “presented annually to a prominent African-American,” but of course, Robertson will argue that they can’t very well SAY that’s what it’s for. So let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and look at some recent recipients of the award.

So in the last five years, ONE African-American has been the recipient of Planned Parenthood’s highest honor. There goes that argument right out the window. Of, course in the mind of a Republican that’s enough concrete evidence to prove that there’s a conspiracy among the executives at Planned Parenthood to carry out ‘genocide’ by using a ‘prominent African-American poster boy’ to convince black people that they should have an abortion. ‘Cause you know, when you are making the decision whether or not to terminate a pregnancy you think,” oh look at that prominent figure promoting Planned Parenthood!!! By golly, I’ve just been persuaded!” This of course, just cements the fact that Republicans think ‘black people are ignorant’ and couldn’t possibly possess the ability to think and make decisions for themselves!

Now, that we’ve established the argument holds absolutely no weight if you take a minute and Google, let’s look into his accusations that Margret Sanger was a monster that wanted to kill off all the African-American babies. According to a press release courtesy of Planned Parenthood to debunk this right-wing ‘genocide’ conspiracy, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Sanger explained the motivation behind her efforts in 1942 in a letter to Albert Lasker, a philanthropist that helped her fund her project to help the African-American community:

“I think it is magnificent that we are in on the ground floor, helping Negroes to control their birth rate, to reduce their high infant and maternal death rate, to maintain better standards of health and living for those already born, and to create better opportunities for those who will be born.”

WHAT A MONSTER! She sounds exactly like Hitler! Oh wait … Well, there goes that, but of course Robertson will say that Planned Parenthood is lying so we must find a different source. Lucky for us Politifact debunked this common Republican myth that she was some kind of crazy woman who wanted to exterminate the African-American race after the presidential candidate Herman Cain made a similar comment. Politifact rated Cain’s statement “Pants On Fire.”

So basically, Pat Robertson is a liar using this inflammatory rhetoric to further his misguided agenda to spread the Republican’s ideology that woman shouldn’t have any control over their body. It is a tad bit awkward that America’s poster boy for Christianity opened his mouth and sinned in front of his millions of viewers. However, it’s not very surprising he is just picking and choosing which of the Ten Commandments he wishes to follow much like Republican lawmakers pick and choose which parts of the constitution they will abide by.