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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN calls Fiorina's biggest lie of the debate 'true, but misleading'
CNN calls Fiorina's biggest lie of the debate 'true, but misleading'by Hunter at Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/17/1422310/-CNN-calls-Fiorina-s-biggest-lie-of-the-debate-true-but-misleading
"SNIP.............
How do you get "true, but misleading" out of Carly Fiorina describing something that never happened?
During CNN's post-debate special, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman discussed Fiorina's statements about having seen in the anti-choice Center for Medical Progress' videos targeting Planned Parenthood "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." Foreman says Fiorina's statement was "true but it is misleading"
It's only "true, but misleading" in the sense that Carly Fiorina was completely lying. Even the faked tapes, which rely on stock footage not taken inside any Planned Parenthood, show no such thing:
But the things Fiorina describes -- the legs kicking, the intact "fully formed fetus," the heart beating, the remarks about having to "harvest its brain" -- are pure fiction. [...]
There is no video of the images that O'Donnell describes seeing, nor is there any mention of instructions to "keep it alive so we can harvest its brain," so it's still not the footage Fiorina describes having watched.
.............SNIP"
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CNN calls Fiorina's biggest lie of the debate 'true, but misleading' (Original Post)
applegrove
Sep 2015
OP
It is true that CNN has "news" in it's title, but that is misleading. CNN is a media mockery....but
Fred Sanders
Sep 2015
#3
spanone
(135,852 posts)1. cnn is full of shit. it was a bald faced lie.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)2. They just refuse to report the news.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)3. It is true that CNN has "news" in it's title, but that is misleading. CNN is a media mockery....but
their month long promotion of Trump paid off handsomely for them yesterday.
Is it Fiorina's turn to be promoted relentlessly to fill the air time?
Capn Sunshine
(14,378 posts)4. Ted Turner is spinning in his grave
and he's not even dead yet.