Media Lash out at Carly Fiorina for Telling Truth about Planned Parenthood in Debate

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National Review:

Ian Tuttle

September 17, 2015

 

 

 

Planned Parenthood took it on the chin at Wednesday night’s GOP debate. In the undercard debate, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal worked into his very first answer the Center for Medical Progress videos (which he recently broadcast at the state capitol), and best tactics for defunding the country’s premier abortion provider were hotly debated on the mainstage. But the night’s knockout blow — and one of its strongest applause lines — came from Carly Fiorina:

 

 

I dare Hillary Clinton [and] Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully-formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’ This is about the character of our nation.

 

 

And so the wagon-circling begins.

 

By 10:15 p.m., Fusion’s Casey Tolan had labeled Fiorina’s answer “the scariest moment of the GOP Debate so far,” then penned a paragraph of almost-verbatim Planned Parenthood talking points:

 

 

The supposedly macabre video she’s talking about was highly, selectively edited by right-wing activists. Five state investigations of the issue closed without any findings of misdoing. Planned Parenthood, which provides critical medical services to tens of thousands of women across the country, doesn’t profit from fetal tissue donation, as the candidates imply.

 

 

Reporter Rachana Pradhan “fact-checked” Fiorina’s claim for Politico: “That video relies solely on the interview and does not include footage to support her claims.”

 

And Slate’s Amanda Marcotte rushed to contend that Fiorina’s “grisly abortion rant” was untruths through and through: “There is nothing in the videos made by CMP, either in the edited or full-length versions, that has anything approaching images of legs kicking or hearts beating.”

 

 

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Watch The Video Planned Parenthood And Its Media Allies Deny Exists

Carly Fiorina challenges Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and others to watch the Planned Parenthood videos depicting organ harvesting.
Mollie Hemingway

September 17, 2015

 

At last night’s CNN debate, Carly Fiorina did what the country’s major media have by and large failed to do: She simply mentioned the horrifying videos showcasing Planned Parenthood’s participation in the fetal organ harvesting trade:

 

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After her powerful statement, Planned Parenthood and its public relations firm SKDKnickerbocker lobbied journalists to claim that Carly had made up her claims. Many complied. Here, for example, is the Washington Post‘s response:

 

 

Fiorina might have trouble finding this video to show to Clinton. No video has surfaced showing the scene Fiorina describes taking place inside a Planned Parenthood facility.

 

 

On the other hand, CNN said that Fiorina’s claim was true but said it was misleading, since part if it is eyewitness testimony and part of it is images of aborted children. Others went full truther, such as this media outlet, which called it “totally made up.” Sarah Kliff, who gained fame for defending her failure to cover the story of Kermit Gosnell — a serial murderer and abortion doctor who snipped babies spinal cords after they were delivered — on the grounds it was just a “local crime” story), published a piece at Vox headlined “Carly Fiorina is wrong about the Planned Parenthood Tapes. I know because I watched them.”

 

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WARNING: This video contains graphic imagery of an aborted child and descriptions of harvesting a brain from a male baby whose heart was beating. It also shows a baby born alive at the same age as the baby whose face and head was cut open to harvest the brain.

 

 

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