On Tuesday’s installment of The Rush Limbaugh Show, a caller seemed to stun the eponymous conservative radio host when he explained that his wife “works the operating room at Planned Parenthood” in St. Paul, Minnesota and argued that while it’s “rather hard to believe,” the abortion provider “does a lot of good things, and not just, you know, baby killing and now I guess throwing fetuses into bags.”
In a segment concerning the release of the fifth Planned Parenthood video from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), Limbaugh had the caller affirm his position before explaining how the editing of videos (as in the case of the CMP videos) takes place on a daily basis across the media landscape with numerous liberal outlets being caught red-handed making deceptive edits.
After welcoming him to the program, the caller got right to the heart of the matter by detailing how “my wife actually works the operating room at Planned Parenthood here in St. Paul” and “takes care of a number of procedures, one of which is abortions.”
The caller then falsely claimed that the videos being widely circulated by CMP do not contain the full conversations (when the entire video and transcripts are indeed posted online) before making his main point [emphasis mine]:
But one of the doctors from the St. Paul location here was interviewed, and what happened was when they posted those videos to YouTube, they'd been cut up and edited to really chastise Planned Parenthood. And I just don't think that all the facts, you know, are straight. Planned Parenthood does a lot of good things, and not just, you know, baby killing and now I guess throwing fetuses into bags. That's rather hard to believe.
Instead of engaging the caller, Limbaugh let his words speak for itself and simply asked him to confirm what he had just uttered: “Wait a minute. Planned Parenthood does a lot of good things, not just baby killing and throwing fetuses into bags?”
The man from Minnesota responded: “Yes. Planned Parenthood does. They offer STD testing and treatment for people who can't afford it.”
The leading conservative radio talk show host thanked the man for calling into the program and specifically for “hav[ing] done a better job than I because you come to the program with validation and authority” since “your wife works there” and that “[t]hey do more than kill babies and throw ‘em in bags.”
Adding that the caller put it “better than I could have said it,” Limbaugh went on to explain why the CMP tapes are shortened and how the liberal media constantly does it to skew stories their way:
The tapes are edited. However, you can go to the Center for Medical Progress website and watch every one of these tapes in its entirety. Of course, when they've got three hours they have to edit it. Just like 60 Minutes, highly respected news organization, edits tape. Just like WW whatever it was in Norfolk, Virginia, edits tape, just like we hear at the EIB Network edit tape in order to fit time-wise. But unlike people that edit tape such as NBC News, which edited a 911 call of the Trayvon Martin case to give an entirely different characterization what really happened, we don't do that. And neither did this bunch. I mean, the people that work at Planned Parenthood are speaking here for 20, 30, 40 seconds, unedited. I mean, it's inescapable what they're doing. You're the first guy that's called and said that it really isn't happening. They're not even denying that it's happening. About the only defense they've got is that the tapes are edited, so forth.
(h/t: rushlimbaugh.com)
