Hey, look, here’s another reporter who never watched “Gosnell” writing about “Gosnell.”
First things first: abortion is graphic and bloody. You would have to go out of your way to make a movie about abortion and not have it filled with blood and gore — but that’s what the makers of the PG-13 film “Gosnell” did. The film isn’t the horror movie it could have been — it’s a crime drama focusing on the arrest and trial of Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted of the murder of three infants who were born alive during abortion procedures that he botched. (He was also convicted of manslaughter after a woman died while undergoing an abortion in his filthy clinic.)
As Twitchy reported, both Vanity Fair and Slate have called it “bloody” and “graphic” in news stories about the film being screened at the White House. Now Politico is throwing in its two cents, and they too are calling it “graphic.”
After months of planning by the Office of the Public Liaison, the graphic anti-abortion movie “Gosnell” is now scheduled to be screened at the White House on Friday afternoon https://t.co/hfkr0Duusg
— POLITICO (@politico) April 11, 2019
“Trump White House to screen graphic anti-abortion movie Friday” … oh, and don’t forget to add that it’s “controversial.”
The film is centered in a courtroom — and this is what the real-life courtroom looked like. Those pieces of paper show the seats reserved for the press:
PHOTO: Seats for media in Courtroom 304 at the Kermit Gosnell abortion "house of horrors" trial in Phila on Thurs. pic.twitter.com/fiOUB1oNdB
— jd mullane ☮️ (@jdmullane) April 12, 2013
The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway zinged Politico for its sudden concern over the Gosnell trial:
This description is something one could only write if they knew nothing of the movie or the underlying true story that was hidden by so many in the media. At the high point of the story, "Gosnell" was Politico's top search, yet returned zero results. https://t.co/gZbGGyv9oH
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 12, 2019
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This reminds me of how you participated in the journalism blackout of the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell — top news story in April 2013. *and I have the receipts* Most searched for? "Kermit Gosnell." Actual stories? Literally none. https://t.co/hoi9liSoHZ pic.twitter.com/8wZzCuzPzo
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 12, 2019
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 12, 2019
Local story, Molls!
— Greg Scott (@GScottSays) April 12, 2019
That’s right — it was a local crime story of no possible interest to anyone outside Philadelphia. Why would it be? Just because this sick freak kept baby feet in jars and stashed the bodies of 47 babies in a freezer — at least the ones he didn’t grind in a garbage disposal or flush down a toilet until it clogged? Hemingway was paying attention as it happened.
@MZHemingway Hi Molly – I cover policy for the Washington Post, not local crime, hence why I wrote about all the policy issues you mention.
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) April 11, 2013
If you think Gosnell is a "local crime" story and not full of policy implications, you make a great @PPact activst but not a great reporter
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 11, 2013
Hey, it’s that tweet’s sixth anniversary today! She brought the heat then and she’s bringing it now — now that left-leaning outlets are suddenly concerned that such a graphic movie is going to be screened at the White House. Now it’s news — six years later.
Where’s the Gosnell story folks? pic.twitter.com/5hIl2Ox9z6
— ❌Art (@tarthur50) April 12, 2019
— SpaceCoastGator (@SpaceCoastGator) April 12, 2019
Ridiculous article…..
— Jeff Cunningham (@jeffrygc) April 12, 2019
Journ-o-list lives.
— Claude Balls (@TOtter777) April 12, 2019
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Update:
And here, once again, is international film and television star Nick Searcy (who also directed “Gosnell”).
There is nothing graphic about GOSNELL, @politico, and if you had seen the movie and knew what you were talking about, you wouldn't write this. It isn't even an "anti-abortion" movie. It's a true crime story.
I hope you watch it someday. It's really good! https://t.co/T7IWLha4T9
— Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) April 12, 2019
Related:
Actor Nick Searcy sets the record straight as White House prepares to screen ‘bloody’ film ‘Gosnell’ https://t.co/CbGTAFQlMK
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 11, 2019
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