Planned Parenthood accuses Carly Fiorina of "lying" about undercover videos

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Planned Parenthood accuses Carly Fiorina of "lying" about undercover videos http://bloom.bg/1MqMLjw



Planned Parenthood Says Carly Fiorina 'Is Lying' About Videos
The women's health group calls out the Republican presidential candidate.


David Knowles


September 23, 2015 — 7:27 PM CDT
Updated on September 24, 2015 — 6:36 AM CDT


...............“There is no polite way to say this: Carly Fiorina is lying,” Planned Parenthood spokesman Eric Ferrero wrote in a statement. “There is no video showing anything like what she claims. It's just totally false, no matter how many times she repeats it.”

During the Sept. 16 debate at the Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, California, Fiorina gave an impassioned account of the undercover videos that have led some conservatives in Congress to seek a government shutdown unless it defunds Planned Parenthood.

“As regards Planned Parenthood, anyone who has watched this videotape, I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch 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,” Fiorina said.

Almost immediately, however, fact-checking groups and journalists began refuting Fiorina's assertions of what the videos contained. The Tampa Bay Times' Politifact, for instance, noted that none of the 10 videos released so far by the Center for Medical Progress actually contained the scene described by Fiorina.

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Fiorina’s claim makes it sound like there is actual footage of Planned Parenthood examining an aborted fetus whose heart is still beating, while someone says "we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain." There isn't.

Yet, when confronted with the videos' selective editing and absence of the scene Fiorina described on the Sunday talk show circuit, Fiorina doubled down on her claims about what they contained.

[underpants]

1. "accuses" ? She lied there's no doubt about it

[PeaceNikki]

5. Yeah, that word jumped out at me, too.

[Angry Dragon]

2. win at any cost

republicans only care for pro-birth and nothing past that

[TreasonousBastard]

3. The obvious thing is to demand Fiorina produce this video...

that she insists exists.

If it does indeed exist, it should be trivial for someone who ran two technology companies, and wants to be president, to find.

[DirkGently]

4. She was lying. Or insane. No need for "scare quotes."

It increasingly sounds like she watched some crazypants YouTube video which described, but did not show because it did not happen, Fiorina's gross, fake "brain harvesting" story.

Whether she's willing to lie that grotesquely or is so genuinely stupid or deranged that she thinks crazed propaganda from YouTube is reality doesn't matter much in terms of her clearly not being someone who should have anything to do with making decisions for the United States, or representing it in any way.

[xfundy]

6. It wasn't "lying"

It was LYING. No quotes needed.

[Vinca]

7. PP should sue for defamation.

Carly's got deep pockets and it would be great to think her loot was going to provide poor women with abortion services.