It seems the Media Research Center isn’t done being upset that the story about the secretly recorded Planned Parenthood official is being accurately reported.
A July 15 NewsBusters item by Curtis Houck complained that TV newscasts accurately identified the Center for Medical Progress, which released the dishonestly edited video, as “anti-abortion activists,” whining about “the media’s long-standing refusal to use the ‘pro-life’ label for conservatives.” But the CMP is unquestionably anti-abortion and they’re activists, so it’s absolutely accurate to describe them as “anti-abortion activists.”
Houck even seemed put out that the media is reporting Planned Parenthood’s side of the story at all, huffing that one newscast included “more points from Planned Parenthood about how they are ‘only trying to help women who want to donate fetal tissue after abortions.'” Funny, we thought the MRC wanted the news fairly reported.
Houck didn’t mention the fact that the original video the CMP released was dishonestly edited and did not portray the full context of what actually happened.
Ken Shepherd follows that up with a July 16 post complaining that the Dailiy Beast accurately identified CMP leader David Daleiden as an “extremist”:
If you can’t counter the message, character-assassinate the messenger. That, apparently, is Daily Beast writer Samantha Allen’s tack regarding the sting video wherein a Planned Parenthood official discusses selling aborted-baby body parts above break-even rates to medical researchers.
Allen devoted her July 16 piece, “Maker of Planned Parenthood Video Called Abortion ‘Genocide'” to trashing pro-life activist David Daleiden[.]
At no point does Shepherd dispute the accuracy of anything the Daily Beast reported about Daleiden, including the “extremist” descriptor, nor does he explain how reporting indisputably accurate information about Daleiden equates to “trashing” or character assassination. One could say the real character assassin here is Daleiden himself with his deceptive video dishonestly attacking Planned Parenthood — a deception Shepherd, like fellow MRC employee Houck, does not acknowledge.