The New York Times favors whistlers – except for those that dare whistle a tune against a tax-payer funded abortion giant.
On Wednesday, the New York Times editorial board slammed “The Campaign of Deception Against Planned Parenthood.” In their piece, the board attempted to discredit the “dishonest” video campaign by The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) that revealed the abortion giant’s trafficking of aborted baby parts. But, in the past, the Times has applauded undercover work.
To begin their piece, the board criticized the “unrelenting attacks on Planned Parenthood” an organization which, they stressed, “offers health care services to millions of people every year.” Furthermore, politicians “howling to defund” the organization “care nothing about the truth,” but instead proved “willing to undermine women’s reproductive rights any way they can.”
Instead of addressing The Center for Medical Progress’ horrific claims that a taxpayer-funded organization is harvesting aborted baby parts, the board focused on ripping apart The Center for Medical Progress’ legitimacy.
The board did not, for example, investigate an ad that CMP’s David Daleiden shared from Stem Express, “one of the major purchasers of Planned Parenthood’s aborted fetal tissue.” In it, Stem Express “advertises 4 different times the financial benefit that Planned Parenthood clinics can receive from supplying fetal tissue” – with a quote from a Planned Parenthood doctor to boot.
While the piece acknowledged the two videos released, it argued only against the first, defending, “the shorter version was edited to eliminate statements by Dr. Nucatola explaining that Planned Parenthood does not profit from tissue donation …”
On the other hand, the second video shows another Planned Parenthood official engaged in haggling over the price of baby parts and joking that she wanted “a Lamborghini.” The Times was silent on that video.
Acting as a spokesman for Planned Parenthood, the board regurgitated the abortion giant’s talking points from both president Cecile Richards and a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The video campaign, the board concluded, “is a dishonest attempt to make legal, voluntary and potentially lifesaving tissue donations appear nefarious and illegal” and the politicians challenging it are “rewarding deception.”
But, for the Times, the topic makes all the difference.
In the past, the Times has supported undercover work, including that of former New York city police officer Adrian Schoolcraft in a piece arguing, “For Detained Whistle-Blower, a Hospital Bill, Not an Apology.” Schoolcraft secretly recorded police conversations to expose manipulation of crime stats.
On Wednesday, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, published a sympathetic documentary on Schoolcraft. The Times published FiveThirtyEight before the site joined ESPN in 2013.
The Times isn’t the only the only media outlet to show discrepancy in coverage towards the videos exposing Planned Parenthood.
In the first 9 hours and 30 minutes of their news shows, the three broadcast networks spent only 39 seconds on the story. It took more than 24 hours before all three covered the video. In the week after the first video was released, the networks gave a mere 9 minutes and 11 seconds on the story (in contrast, ABC, NBC and CBS gave more than three times that to the Susan G. Komen controversy, when the charity temporarily decided to defund the abortion giant).
The liberal media proved similarly hesitant to cover the trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell.
Gosnell was convicted in 2013 of first-degree murder of three babies. The trial, where witnesses described baby abortion survivors “swimming" in toilets “to get out,” attracted a mere 12 – 15 reporters. Only after 56 days, multiple letters from members of the House of Representatives and a public outcry, did all three broadcast networks report on Gosnell.
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