Posted on 09/01/2015 2:15:04 PM PDT by Morgana
“Planned Parenthood is using virtually every tool in its lobbying arsenal to defend against attacks from conservatives and anti-abortion activists,” a story in the Washington Post begins. “Planned Parenthood’s counter-offensive is widespread and varied and is unfolding inside and outside the Beltway.”
A huge part of that was rolled out last week when Planned Parenthood had allies in the media publicize a report it had commissioned and paid for from not just any Democratic opposition research firm, but one known for being particularly partisan and hostile to social conservatives. The Democratic opposition research team’s report said that undercover videos revealing Planned Parenthood’s harvesting and trade of human organs from the humans they abort had been unfairly unedited, though it was hazy on details.
Nevertheless, Planned Parenthood allies in the media ran with the report within moments of its release, a far cry from the foot-dragging, reluctance, and self-censorship on display with their inadequate coverage of the videos themselves. It took New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes and her editor a day to figure out how to cover the scandalous first video, and a full two weeks to correct a basic factual error in same—but only minutes for a story on this report from Planned Parenthood that Planned Parenthood said exonerated Planned Parenthood.
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Why do they bother? With the current leadership in D.C. it’s money down the drain......along with the babies.
“Why do they bother?”
Because exposing evil is always a righteous task, no matter how hopeless the cause.
I was speaking of the murderers of PP, not us.
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