Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt credited CBS News for its moving story of the victims of alleged Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear, but had to pause at paragraph 34, where he learned that the undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood employees and administrators haggling over the price of body parts and the best techniques to preserve organs for harvesting are “now discredited.”
On Sunday, Planned Parenthood said Dear’s words matched the “hateful rhetoric” GOP presidential candidates and many conservative leaders have been using since now-discredited, secretly taped videos discussing the procurement of fetal body parts for medical research.
@ScotBertram: @CBSNews buried the "now-discredited videos" in 34th graph of moving story about shooting victims. https://t.co/j6h9bY6s9X
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) November 30, 2015
@hughhewitt @CBSNews Eventually saw that. Had to scroll waaaay down. How does that get by an editor?
— Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) November 30, 2015
Lazy editor. Tired editor. Agenda-driven editor. Who knows. But videos are not "discredited" and #PP was selling https://t.co/l0iifmCvFQ
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) November 30, 2015
The videos are not discredited except on far left. They are horrific and truth telling. They do not excuse or promote violence, but are true
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) November 30, 2015
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/671493995927764992
@hughhewitt @CBSNews "Now-discredited" PP videos? Since when? How?
— Joyce Bruns (@JoyceBruns) November 30, 2015
"Now discredited" bc the narrative is pro-PP at the moment. Why nobody trusts the media anymore. @CBSNews https://t.co/QlfCIyJ9pt
— OnTheBench (@Huerts31) November 30, 2015
@MZHemingway How and when have the videos of PP selling fetal body parts earned the label, "now-discredited"? https://t.co/ffntTBJla0
— R. David Mullin (@RD_Mullin) November 30, 2015
@hughhewitt @CBSNews @instapundit it should be change from "now discredited"to extremely accurate & brutally honest.
CBS hacks— Bill M Becker (@BillMBecker) November 30, 2015
@davidgrayrhodes Why is CBS describing the Planned Parenthood videos as "now discredited"? By whom? Based on what? Poor journalism! #Bias
— Michael Rinker (@MichaelRinker) November 30, 2015
Planned Parenthood and others who initially described the very first nine-minute video as heavily edited were caught by surprise to learn that the full-length video had also been posted to YouTube. The same pattern followed, until Planned Parenthood hired a firm to perform a frame-by-frame forensic analysis of all of the videos released until that point.
Not surprisingly, Planned Parenthood got what they paid for, with Fusion GPS calling the videos “so distorted” that Congress should not rely on them in its investigation of Planned Parenthood. Oddly, though, even with this conclusive “proof” that the videos had been manipulated, Planned Parenthood still failed to follow through on its repeated threats to sue the Center for Medical Progress. Why not?
In a piece in the Washington Examiner, T. Becket Adams notes that Fusion GPS said that it watched only four of the more than 10 videos.
Note that @CBSNews has not updated or edited the story despite the number of Tweeted references to it. https://t.co/Y2NKYA3CVs
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) November 30, 2015
@hughhewitt nor will they. The next jump is to television where they will reference their earlier, inaccurate online report.
— ?Only the good Trae Young? (@KirkSeriousFace) November 30, 2015
@hughhewitt @Peggynoonannyc But Mary Mapes and Dan Rather insist that the TANG story is still solid.
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) November 30, 2015
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