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'Heard about it from the news reports'

Tapper grills Earnest: Seriously? No one at the WH has seen the Planned Parenthood vids?



If you're even a casual observer of current events, you've probably seen the gruesome Planned Parenthood videos. If you're a reporter, blogger, commentator, or just a regular person who follows politics, you've definitely seen them. Given that fact, its a safe bet that someone whose day-to-day life is 100% tied to the 24 hour news cycle has seen them. Let's face it, if everything you do is about handling various sectors of the news media, you have to know what you're talking about, right? Apparently, no, that's not right.
When CNN's Jake Tapper found himself interviewing White House press secretary Josh Earnest, he asked if the White House was bothered by anything featured in the Planned Parenthood videos released so far. Earnest responded by claiming that these mysterious videos were something he'd never seen:
Jake, I gotta tell you. These videos were released because of their shock value and there’s no doubt that what’s depicted on these videos is shocking. I know that based on the news reports I’ve read about the videos. I haven’t actually looked at them. But people who have looked at them have raised significant questions about whether or not these videos are credible. About whether or not they’ve been selectively edited in a way to grossly distort the position and the policies of Planned Parenthood.
Tapper then pointed out that Earnest's argument was essentially worthless, since the full, unedited, videos have also been released.
The whole video is put up on the website of this anti-abortion group that put them out. You don’t have to watch just the edited version. You can watch the whole version.

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But hey, Earnest has a lucrative career selling administration lies. He's not about to let a pesky little thing like reality interfere with his duties. He doubled down on the bogus selective editing" argument:
I’m relying on news reports that I’ve seen on people who’ve taken a look at this and raised questions about the videos themselves and there’s no doubt that this is an organization that has targeted Planned Parenthood for some time so they clearly have an ideological ax to grind. What we know to be true is that Planned Parenthood provides regular health care for millions of Americans across the country. And Planned Parenthood is not able to use federal funds to perform abortions. That is written into the rules. That is a rule that this administration has not just followed, but that this administration has supported. So it’s clear that there are some ideological games being played here. And what this administration and this president has long fought for is protecting access for women for health care. And that’s exactly why we want to make sure there’s not an ideological effort to defund Planned Parenthood that provides those important health care services to women all across the country.
Well that's reassuring. First we have the standard administration line that they're "hearing about things from the news." Does anyone, anywhere, really believe this? It's almost as if Planned Parenthood isn't one-of the most well connected left-wing organizations on Earth. They support the Democrat party, and virtually ALL of its candidates, both financially and rhetorically. Does the White House really expect us to believe that no one from Obama's inner circle has seen the tape and "made the call?" As if that's not ridiculous enough, the administration that loves to ignore rules, regulations, and laws has the nerve to lecture us about what "the rules" say? Tapper seemed as unimpressed as we are, and he offered a sarcastic stinger: Well, somebody at the White House should maybe watch the videos in full. The simple fact is that Planned Parenthood has been caught, on film, selling the remains of dead babies. This is a massive story - particularly for a party, President, and inevitable candidate that are so closely allied with the organization in question. There is simply no chance that the administration's spokespeople have not seen the videos, drafted a response, and prepared a host of contingencies to deal with where the scandal might go. If you believe otherwise, you're either an idiot, or you haven't been paying attention to how team Obama functions. h/t Washington Free Beacon


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