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Related: About this forumTYT: Fox News On Damage Control After “Baby Parts” Propaganda Campaign
Fox hosts apparently got the memo that the Right was going into full-on defense mode over their tacit support and encouragement for anti-abortion extremism. Many Fox hosts were incredibly defensive about their rhetoric. Ana Kasparian (The Point) and John Iadarola (Think Tank), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"During a November 30 segment on Fox's The Kelly File, Kelly discussed whether videos released by the anti-choice Center for Medical Progress influenced the alleged gunman who attacked a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, killing three people and injuring others. Kelly criticized assertions that "rhetoric" stemming from the anti-choice videos drove the shooter. She also defended Fiorina's much-debunked claims that those who watch the videos would see "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."
Kelly conceded that Fiorina "made a claim ... that was a bridge too far" by "sort of meld[ing] two different sets of videos." But she added "in Fiorina's defense, she did not see on those tapes, because it didn't exist, the live fetus having its organs harvested. The reason the fetus wasn't alive is because it had just been killed by a Planned Parenthood doctor."
This is an outright falsehood. None of the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress show an abortion procedure, a fact even the group's founder David Daleiden admits. The Center for Medical Progress did misleadingly insert in one of their videos an unrelated image from a woman's stillbirth and a separate undated, unsourced video from an unknown miscarriage. Neither of the inserted materials had any connection to Planned Parenthood nor with abortion procedures.*
Read more here: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/01/megyn-kelly-defends-anti-planned-parenthood-sme/207154
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TYT: Fox News On Damage Control After “Baby Parts” Propaganda Campaign (Original Post)
WhoIsNumberNone
Dec 2015
OP
This is much like a lot of other rhetoric in the media that is seldom mentioned.
Enthusiast
Dec 2015
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Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)1. This is much like a lot of other rhetoric in the media that is seldom mentioned.
These are verboten topics that couldn't be any more obvious.
Just one more outrage.
What Fox "News" says/implies in regard to race is every bit as bad as their past abortion diatribes.
Never say Fox "News" is entertainment. It only excuses their abhorrent behavior.
nwduke
(351 posts)2. SNL
Reminds me of that old news skit with Dan Akroid and Jane Curtain: "you miserable sl**) Why do FOX entertainment hosts get away over and over again with full blown lies and exaggerations! It's not news, it's a GOP propaganda station for gullible viewers.