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Amanda Marcotte Rips Twitchy's 'Flying Monkeys' for Tweeting Against Joss Whedon for Funding Abortions

By Tim Graham | January 1, 2016, 6:04 PM EST

At Salon, Amanda Marcotte, one of America’s leading deniers that babies are somehow involved in abortions, turned her talent for dehumanizing people to Twitchy for mocking Hollywood writer-director Joss Whedon’s volunteering to put six figures of cash beh ...

NBC’s Today Skips Planned Parenthood Videos, Clinton E-Mail/Foundation Scandals in Year in Review

By Curtis Houck | December 31, 2015, 12:01 PM EST

With New Year’s Eve upon us, NBC’s Today dedicated a segment in its 9:00 a.m. hour on Thursday to looking back at the year in news, politics, and entertainment. Not surprisingly, the liberal network made no mention of the Planned Parenthood baby parts vid ...

Planned Parenthood Thanks Health Reporters with 'Emergency Chocolate'

By Sarah Stites | December 29, 2015, 11:53 AM EST

Planned Parenthood supporters might be surprised to discover the newest use of their donations — funding Christmas presents for journalists. On December 28, Vox’s deputy managing editor for visuals Sarah Kliff tweeted a photo of her gift with the caption ...

Planned Parenthood Admits Sending Aborted Babies to Landfills; AP Plays Defense

By Tom Blumer | December 12, 2015, 10:54 AM EST

The callousness towards human life at Planned Parenthood is such that it believes that the remains of preborn babies killed during abortions are just like any other "medical waste," and that sending them to landfills — or, perhaps even incinerat ...

Fiorina Destroys CNN’s Cuomo for Pushing Planned Parenthood Propaganda

By Kyle Drennen | December 11, 2015, 10:52 AM EST

In a hostile interview with Carly Fiorina on CNN’s New Day on Friday, anchor Chris Cuomo accused the Republican presidential candidate of inciting violence with her criticism of abortion provider Planned Parenthood: “Do you feel any sense of regret about ...

Salon Pundit: Americans With ‘Violent Desires’ Might Get ‘Inspiration’ to Attack From ‘A Republican Presidential Debate’

By Tom Johnson | December 6, 2015, 12:47 PM EST

In a column posted last Monday, two days before the San Bernardino massacre, Salon ’s Heather Digby Parton warned of Americans with “violent desires” who might find “inspiration” to stage mass-casualty attacks not in jihadist propaganda, but in rhetoric u ...

Wilmore Falsely Claims Fiorina Called Colorado Gunman 'Messenger,' 'Protester'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 2, 2015, 10:27 PM EST

On Monday's The Nightly Show on Comedy Central, host Larry Wilmore used clips of GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina from Fox News Sunday to deceive viewers into believing she referred to the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood attacker as merel ...

CNN's Louis: Ex-Convicts Are Dems Because 'More Respectful Toward Civil and Human Rights'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 2, 2015, 1:42 AM EST

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's At This Hour with Berman and Bolduan, CNN political commentator Errol Louis dismissed GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz's assertion that Democrats are more likely to commit violent crimes than Republicans by t ...

CNN Touts GOP Candidates' 'Anger-Filled Rhetoric' Before Colorado Shootings

By Matthew Balan | December 1, 2015, 3:11 PM EST

On Monday's AC360, CNN's Randi Kaye played up that the hidden camera videos from the Center for Medical Progress triggered " anger-filled rhetoric " from the Republican presidential candidates in the months before the Colorado shooting ...

Amanda Marcotte: ‘Terrorism’ the ‘Logical End Point’ of Conservative ‘Deep Sense of Entitlement’ to Women’s Bodies

By Tom Johnson | December 1, 2015, 5:41 PM EST

Anyone fascinated by strident pro-choice rhetoric finds that Amanda Marcotte seldom disappoints in that regard. In a Monday Salon piece pegged to the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shootings, the lefty pundit asserted that “terrorism…is the logical e ...

CNN's Cooper Invites Planned Parenthood to Blame GOP Candidates for Shootings

By Brad Wilmouth | December 1, 2015, 12:58 AM EST

As Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards appeared as a guest on Monday's Anderson Cooper 360, host Cooper prodded her to "directly link the rhetoric" coming from GOP presidential candidates to the Colorado Spring shooting spree after ...

Costello: Fiorina Made Abortion Charges 'Falsely,' Obeidallah: GOPers 'Legitimizing Hate'

By Brad Wilmouth | November 30, 2015, 6:15 PM EST

As Monday's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello devoted a segment to whether political rhetoric against Planned Parenthood's practices inspired an attack on a Colorado Planned Parenthood office, host Costello began by asserting that GOP presidentia ...

WaPo's Marcus: GOP Candidates 'Inflamed People, Helped Create Environment' for CO Shooting

By Mark Finkelstein | November 30, 2015, 2:21 PM EST

Ruth Marcus has come close to blaming Republicans for the Colorado Springs shootings. Appearing on Jose Diaz-Balart's MSNBC show today, Washington Post columnist Marcus said that "the Republican candidates... have been part of the inflamed and i ...

CNN Plays Up GOP Candidates Not Condemning 'Rhetoric' Against Planned Parenthood

By Matthew Balan | November 30, 2015, 11:40 AM EST

Eric Bradner touted in a Sunday article on CNN.com that the "Republican presidential contenders condemned" the man who murdered three people at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado, but " largely stood by their fierce criticism of the organizat ...

Nets Hit GOP Guests with Charges of 'Hateful Rhetoric' by Abortion Opponents

By Brad Wilmouth | November 29, 2015, 11:33 PM EST

On all three broadcast network Sunday talk shows, hosts pressed some of their GOP guests by forwarding a quote from Planned Parenthood complaining that "hateful rhetoric" from abortion opponents had contributed to the shooting attack on Planned ...