#FakeNews-a-Palooza! Brit Hume hammers 'dishonest' CNN for spreading out-of-context Dem talking point on Kavanaugh

Doug P. | 11:18 AM on September 08, 2018

Congressional Democrats quickly started spreading a brief clip of Brett Kavanaugh answering a question to sound the alarm about the SCOTUS nominee. Among them was Sen. Kamala Harris:

Kavanaugh chooses his words very carefully, and this is a dog whistle for going after birth control. He was nominated for the purpose of taking away a woman’s constitutionally protected right to make her own health care decisions. Make no mistake – this is about punishing women. pic.twitter.com/zkBjXzIvQI

— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) September 7, 2018

The clip leaves out some important context, but CNN helped the Dems out by not exactly concerning themselves with that:

Brett Kavanaugh's views on birth control drew scrutiny after he referred to contraceptives as "abortion-inducing drugs" https://t.co/ZgSioLWV99 pic.twitter.com/ShT9d8XQGF

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 7, 2018

Fox News’ Brit Hume threw a bushel of apples & bananas at CNN over that approach:

He was stating the position of a party to a case. How dishonest can a news organization be? Fact check much? https://t.co/0Qb9D2P1z3

— Brit Hume (@brithume) September 8, 2018

Ironically CNN bills itself as the “Facts First” news organization — unless those facts should be buried deep into a story so as to not ruin a preferred Dem narrative.