As Twitchy reported earlier, Planned Parenthood is so certain that those “heavily edited” videos showing the inner workings of the agency are so obviously falsified that it reportedly hired teams of forensic analysts to comb through the videos frame by frame to prove it. And surprise! The majority of media outlets that covered the story reported that the videos were found to be “totally manipulated.”
“Planned Parenthood Fights Back” read the headline on npr.org, with this summary: “In a new report sent to Congress, the organization says controversial videos alleging the sale of fetal tissue are “heavily edited” to “significantly distort” actual events and conversations.”
Actually, the “heavily edited” videos allege the sale of whole body parts and organs, and even whole bodies, and document executives haggling over prices with potential buyers.
There’s such a tremendously uneven application by journalists of when to believe a source without any corroborating evidence and when not to
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 27, 2015
Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist, notes just how quickly the word spread that the videos reportedly had been manipulated.
There’s such a tremendously uneven application by journalists of when to believe a source without any corroborating evidence and when not to
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 27, 2015
NPR going big w/ @ppact claim that @ppact-funded report says @ppact awesome, CMP bad. Treating it like legit news. Amazing. Amazing.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 27, 2015
@MZHemingway Did you hear Diane Rehm show today? Pro-abort host, NOW flack, two liberal journalists, and NRLC's Tobias. Callers were wild.
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) August 27, 2015
@MZHemingway Missed the segment. What was basic premise?
— Steve Bezner (@Bezner) August 27, 2015
A complete transcript of today’s Diane Rehm show can be found on NPR’s website, but there’s no need to hear even one word from the guests to know where the segment, entitled “New Tactics In The Anti-Abortion Movement,” is headed.
The number of battles over when and under what circumstances a woman can exercise her legal right to an abortion is growing. For low-income women, even basic family planning services may be becoming out of reach: In five states, Republicans are seeking to block women on Medicaid from obtaining health care services at Planned Parenthood clinics.
Rehm begins:
Opponents of abortion in Congress and several states have launched efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, a significant provider of health services to low income women. According to a new report from ProPublica, abortion foes have a new tactic, searching dumpsters for personal data on women who get abortions and their doctors.
This is straight up propaganda on behalf of @ppact by @npr. Unbelievable.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 27, 2015
https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/637033688220438528
CMP should commission own "outside" report confirming what PP officials said *on tape.* NPR'd be all over it. https://t.co/4aL0PhWA4p
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 27, 2015
Interesting that it took so long for media to cover @ppact videos but they promote this @ppact-funded report in support of @ppact in minutes
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 28, 2015
They told us it takes so much time to dig into videos and decide whether to cover them. But this @ppact-funded report took zero time. Hunh.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 28, 2015
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/637081697243238400
NPR lead story today was Planned Parenthood report absolving itself. Oil industry jealous.
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) August 28, 2015
If these videos amounted to nothing, why the changing excuses and severing relationship with Stem Express?@seanmdav @Popehat @MZHemingway
— Brad Slager: It's Lt-Col-VP-Rev-Kaiser, SIR ? ? (@MartiniShark) August 28, 2015
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