Fiorina, pressed on Planned Parenthood, becomes even more extreme
It's unclear whether the precept being followed by Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina is "never apologize, never explain," or "the best defense is a good offense," or "in for a penny, in for a pound," but her defense on Sunday's "Meet the Press" of her manifest lies about Planned Parenthood was her most bizarre and extreme yet.
Fiorina was so insistent that she had seen and heard things on videotapes purporting to show babies aborted by Planned Parenthood, and made such an outrageous new charge, that host Chuck Todd had trouble keeping up. Her insistence on telling lies about Planned Parenthood could undermine one of her prime defenses against critics of her 1999-2005 performance as head of Hewlett-Packard, which is that the critics are telling lies about her.
The "Meet the Press" video can be seen here and the transcript is here. The results are sad to watch for several reasons. One is that several of Todd's rivals among news anchors and hosts on other networks turned in a creditable job Sunday of holding Fiorina's rivals to account for their own words.
CNN's Jake Tapper effectively exposed the fatuity of Dr. Ben Carson's dictum (issued, as it happens, to Todd a week ago) that being a Muslim is a disqualification to serve as president. Tapper told Carson that as a Seventh Day Adventist and an African American, "you know what it's like for people to make false assumptions about you, and you seem to be doing the same thing with Muslims." Tapper's questioning finally provoked Carson's media handler to end the interview. Like Tapper, ABC's Martha Raddatz refused to let Carson claim he'd been misquoted, by showing the NBC transcript. (Tapper showed the actual clip from "Meet the Press."
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