John Chappell at PJM, reporting from Spain on a Springeresque program having a Jenny Jones moment:ÂÂ
Ricardo Navarro called up the producers because he wanted to surprise his ex-girlfriend, a 30-year-old Russian woman named Svetlana. He told them he wanted to ask her to come back to him, and that he would propose marriage to her on the air.
Naturally, the program jumped at it; they contacted Svetlana and informed her they had a surprise for her, with no other specifics, and she agreed to appear. She did not know that her surprise would be Navarro.
What they failed to do was check on Navarro’s background. He’d been convicted of abusing a previous girlfriend and sentenced to 11 months in prison, which he had not yet served; Svetlana charged him with harassment four months ago, after the breakup, and Navarro was convicted. The courts put him under a restraining order, though reports are not clear whether the order referred to Svetlana or the former girlfriend.
Antena 3 taped the show on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 14, and ran it that night. Navarro got down on one knee and proposed to Svetlana, and she said no. Gaztañaga pressured her and she repeated her rejection. (Video included in this report.) On Sunday Navarro cut her throat at the entrance to her Alicante apartment. She died on Monday.
Naturally, the Spanish media has been full of blasts at Patricia’s Diary during the last two days, calling the program irresponsible, along with shameful, embarrassing, grotesque, unworthy, morbid, miserable, frivolous, and dishonest. There have been calls for censorship from feminist organizations, and there has been a good deal of middlebrow media breast-beating over the bad taste of the television audience.
Oddly enough, there hasn’t been any America-bashing.
Toni Vernelli was steralised at age 27 to reduce her carbon footprint
Money quote: “Having children is selfish.”ÂÂ
More on our heroine, at the Telegraph. She’s a major figure in both PETA and VIVA!
Luke 23:27-31 And there were following Him a great multitude of the people, and of women who were mourning and lamenting Him. 28 But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 “For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ 30 “Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ 31 “For if they do these things in the green tree, what will happen in the dry?” (NAS)
Give it time. After all, the gals at Feministing and Pandagon blamed us for the murders of Ob/Gyns in Iraq. They have the same hatred of women, apparently, as the “anti-choicers” here in the US.
Believe me Dan, this is not a sign of the Apocalypse. It is nothing short of a blessing from On High.
The eschatological reading doesn’t interest me much, but clearly He was speaking to a culture in deep crisis.
The biblical quote reminded me of this, which makes me thankful I’m not a Canadian.
Also, I’m thinking our brave planet saver is more suited to checkers than chess. Does she think the Chinese (7 million new per year) are busy teaching their kids that the environment is extremely important?
EG – The Chinese, the great and forward-thinking creators of the one-child policy. On the right track just didn’t take it quite far enough.
The apotheosis of the self-loathing peddled by today’s Left. You’re not saving the planet, Toni, you’re leaving it to people who don’t share your weltanschauung.
Mike C – You’re right, I had totally forgotten about the one-child policy. I wonder what the Chinese policy on gay marriage is?
“I wonder what the Chinese policy on gay marriage is?”
9mm to the back of the head. .$29 bill to family for ammunition used.
Yes, but think of all those organs which can then be “donated”. Probably gonna be important should the male dominated generation of Chinese decide they’d rather start a war to get more womenfolk than go gay, or celibate. Almost like a perpetual motion machine if you think about it.
So true, and perhaps a shame. For at least 3% of the population, an alternative protein source goes to waste…
Soylent Pink?
I would love to a chance to demand that this woman provide certifiable documented evidence that she indeed had herself sterilized. I’m surprised that anybody takes at face value what anyone at PETA or the like says. She could just whip out this self-aggrandizing claim of incredible sacrifice and then have a kid later anytime she wants. Nobody calls Paul Ehrlich on his past claims, why cant she get away with it too?
Soylent yellow, I think.
At the risk of sounding callous, I think lunatics like this being sterilized doesn’t exactly harm humanity.
Good, she won’t be breeding anymore moonbats.
Now all that needs be done is find a way to prevent that particular brand of mental illness from spreading…
Yet another thing to give thanks for.
I would like to cordially invite all ‘progressives’ to follow Ms. Vernelli in her example. Oh what a better world it would be.
So this is how the Left will end. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
Unless they’re in China. Then they might end with a bang. And a bill.