CNSNews.com does not want its readers to think about Rush Limbaugh’s sleazy attack on Georgetown law student for discussing birth control on Capitol Hill. It most certainly does not want its readers to know that its own director of communications, Craig Bannister, inspired Limbaugh’s misogynistic rants by portraying Fluke as a “sex-crazed co-ed.”
So, instead, CNS has decided to attack Fluke’s credibility by focusing on a single claim she made: that birth control can cost a law student $3,000 over three years.
A March 5 article by Gregory Gwyn-Williams Jr. claims that “a Target store only 3 miles from the law school currently sells a month’s supply of birth control pills for only $9 to people who do not have insurance plans covering contraceptives.”
CNS tried to hammer home the talking point with two articles asking members of Congress about the claim.
At no point, however, does CNS indicate it ever tried to contact Fluke to ask her about where her figures came from. That’s a basic reporting failure — and demonstrates CNS’ right-wing agenda.
CNS chose to smear Fluke without having all the facts beforehand. That’s blatant bias.