As Twitchy has reported, liberals are circling the wagons to protect Planned Parenthood after GOP candidate Carly Fiorina dared Hillary Clinton and President Obama before a television audience of 23 million to watch the videos exposing fetal organ harvesting at the tax-supported organization.
Amanda Marcotte wrote in Slate that the events Fiorina described in her “grisly abortion rant” “only happened in her head.” MSNBC’s Irin Carmon, who last year was presented a “Maggie Award” from Planned Parenthood for her reporting, argued that “we actually don’t know what [the video] depicts” and then added, “Fiorina’s statement is clearly inaccurate.”
And then there’s Vox’s Sarah Kliff, who as a reporter for the Washington Post didn’t think it was necessary to cover Kermit Gosnell’s house of horrors because it fell under “local crime,” is pretty sure that Fiorina’s Planned Parenthood rant is based on lies. Why? Because she watched “all 12 hours of footage,” apparently unaware that more than 16 hours had been released at the time.
What’s next? The liberal website Talking Points Memo has released its hit piece on Fiorina, claiming that her graphic description was “pure fiction.”
Writer who saw all Planned Parenthood videos: Fiorina's graphic description was "pure fiction" http://t.co/payLDs7k6V pic.twitter.com/kzzL2rNhWv
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) September 19, 2015
So TPM’s source for their claim is Vox’s Kliff, who apparently missed several hours worth of the Planned Parenthood videos.
TPM – Person who doesn't work for us saw videos that we won't show you and says they're false, so we're running with that. @joshtpm
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) September 19, 2015
.@TPM Or TPM could just put the videos on your website and let people compare for themselves. But you don't. Weird that.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) September 19, 2015
@redsteeze @joshtpm
At TPM, this is called "everyday"— Foghorn Leghorn (@FoghornBLeghorn) September 19, 2015
@redsteeze @joshtpm Advocate website, sites advocate to dispute publicly available evidence
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) September 19, 2015
https://twitter.com/HodenAngst/status/645272159330398208
.@redsteeze Same tack @NPR's @OTMBrooke took on this weeks @onthemedia
— Lead and Gold (@leadandgold_cdh) September 19, 2015
With more than 18 hours of damning footage now released, it seems odd that Fiornia would use her moment in the spotlight at the CNN debate to spout “pure fiction” that could be simply fact-checked.
https://twitter.com/AmericnElephant/status/644901564163887106
https://twitter.com/AmericnElephant/status/644897615616671744
https://twitter.com/AmericnElephant/status/644898513571090432
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