It’s terribly disheartening to say, but the mainstream media seems to have moved on from the undercover Planned Parenthood videos that managed to shock even some abortion supporters into questioning just what Planned Parenthood was doing with all that taxpayer money while other clinics went without.
It’s a miracle that the media picked up on the videos at all, but the first … then the second … then a third … really seemed to have Planned Parenthood concerned about its cozy relationship with Congress and the White House. A fifth video released today, though, seems hardly to have made a dent, especially in the shadow of last night’s Senate vote to block legislation to defund Planned Parenthood.
The most recent video did make the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, where an article by Planned Parenthood Carolyn Johnson downplayed the content as much as possible. Johnson describes the “highly edited” video as showing “footage of fetal organs being examined in a laboratory,” but somehow misses entirely the Planned Parenthood doctor explaining that, “If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget.” (Oh, you wanted a whole baby? We might have one in the fridge.) That less “crunchy” approach to the procedure pays off if you find someone who can do it right.
Mollie Hemingway, senior editor of The Federalist and NewsBusters’ Blogger of the Year, has had it.
Oh FFS, @carolynyjohnson, use more weasel words next time. Sheesh. http://t.co/WugbO134aK
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 4, 2015
Haven’t been angry about bad media coverage of @ppact organ harvesting prior to now. Starting to get angry. You won’t like me when I’m angry
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 4, 2015
So long as media begin using “edited” as a descriptor for 100% of videos, I guess it’s cool to call @ppact-scandal videos “edited"
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 4, 2015
But if they don’t use “edited” 100% of the time, I’m going to suspect the descriptor here is biased B.S.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 4, 2015
Technically, tho, it’s possible everyone decided to use term in a non-biased way in recent weeks and will be used consistently henceforth
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 4, 2015
I’m also going to refer to 100% of bad @ppact “news” stories as “highly and poorly edited"
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 4, 2015
@MZHemingway Hillary's response clip in support of PP was heavily edited!
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 4, 2015
Exactly!
@MZHemingway @LisaDeP @PPact How do they explain the unedited PP vids though?
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) August 4, 2015
Shut up, that’s how.
https://twitter.com/mmellmmar/status/628668840050700288
This might not be the best time to mention PolitiFact’s latest gem: The site rates Martin O’Malley’s statement, “97 percent of the work that Planned Parenthood does is about mammograms and preventative health,” to be half-true … despite the established fact that Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms. None.
Are you motherbleeping kidding me @politifact? Are you motherfreaking kidding me? http://t.co/UOb3dIwfjl
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 4, 2015
I mean mother bleeping mother mother bleep bleepety bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep. That’s hackery.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 4, 2015
I mean, awfully generous of you, @LaurenFCarroll of @politifact, to make my job so easy, but that’s some really bad “fact” “checking"
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 4, 2015
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