CNN Host Asks If Initial Outrage Over Contraception Mandate was 'Manufactured' to Hurt Obama
Serving up some pro-Obama spin, CNN's Don Lemon asked Obama's HHS Secretary on Friday if the outrage over the administration's contraception mandate was not genuine, but rather ginned up by conservatives to hurt the President in an election year.
Lemon cited Obama as he noted that many Catholics use contraception, and then he asked HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius if she thought the widespread outrage over the mandate was "manufactured." Ironically, Sebelius disagreed with that assessment. [Video below the break.]
"Do you get the sense that the outrage over the original plan was manufactured to hurt the President politically with Catholic voters?" Lemon asked the secretary. She answered that "I think a lot of the public outcry was urging us to find an appropriate balance."
Lemon asked the question again in his next interview with the general counsel of the Becket Fund, who is representing religious organizations in their lawsuits against the mandate. "Many have said that this is a manufactured controversy in an election year to make the President look bad. How do you respond to that?" he pressed his conservative guest.
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I hope the left thinks this is manufactured
Submitted by povertypimpin on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 5:58pm.
In November they will realize it wasn't.
"Many have said", yeah, YOU
Submitted by tobiasdog on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 6:17pm.
"Many have said", yeah, YOU ya freak'n TOOL!
There's that propaganda again.
These idiots just can't get
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 6:29pm.
These idiots just can't get it into their heads that Obama can and does stupid and unconstutional things.
Of course it was manufactured!
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 6:38pm.
The Catholic Church doesn't really care about contraception or abortion; they just want to hurt the president.
Hey, if Pelosi can get away with saying Republicans are just using it as an excuse because they're against women's health, or something, then why would claiming this be any different?
Lemon does not
Submitted by kayakguy on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 6:59pm.
Have a moral core, that is why he doesn't understand the position of the Catholic Church.
What a fool.
Was the outrage over
Submitted by the struggler on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 7:21pm.
Was the outrage over Guantanamo manufactured to hurt Bush?
Exactly the point I was going
Submitted by gopsteve on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 11:23pm.
Exactly the point I was going to make...When did the msm ever wonder if ANY Bush criticism was "manufactured"
It's Funny
Submitted by Nick Shaw on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 12:01am.
It's funny how all that manufactured outrage over Gitmo disappeared after Zero was elected, Struggler.
I guess it's like most manufacturing jobs under this administration.
Maybe they need a grant or loan guarantee to get back on their feet? Perhaps a waiver from ObamaKare wouldn't hurt either.
I've got news for this media
Submitted by lotr on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 9:58pm.
I've got news for this media talking head idiot: The outrage hasn't gone away. Nor is it about to.
And nor is it confined simply to bishops or Catholics... and nor should it be. One only had to listen to Mark Levin (who's not exactly Catholic) tonight to feel the outrage.
Shoot, I usually catch some
Submitted by gopsteve on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 11:50pm.
Shoot, I usually catch some of him...missed all of him tonight...figures!
Levin on the issue
Submitted by lotr on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 9:48am.
I usually catch the beginning of his show every night in my commute home. Let's just say that he makes the very clear case that this issue is not merely about "Catholicism" or "contraception" -- we are literally in the midst of a Constitutional crisis, in terms of the 1st, 9th and 10th Amendments, with the 2nd likely next on the chopping block -- and this after the so-called "compromise," which was no "compromise" at all.
Yes, sure it was
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 10:09pm.
...manufactured. What religion wouldn't want to change their doctrine on demand of the messiah called Obama? They should consider it an honor, right Don? Unreal.
"Many Have Said"?
Submitted by jbspry on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 12:01am.
-or you have said many times?
Radical Obama
Submitted by gregz on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 6:49pm.
Barack Hussein Obama supports late term partial birth abortions and infanticide, yet many Catholics voted for him in 2008. Obama is an evil man. He is a polarizing and divisive figure pitting one group of Americans against another. Let's not forget Obama's mentor, Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist who as leader of the Weather Underground in the Sixties advocated the killing of 25 million Americans after the overthrow of the country, if they could not be reeducated into their Socialist utopia. Obama hangs around with radicals because he is a radical.