There’s some serious denial going on in Brent Bozell and Tim Graham’s Aug. 19 column:
After six devastating hidden-camera interviews, the best Planned Parenthood and its top-dollar crisis managers can muster in their defense is to protest that they were “heavily edited.”
Of course they were. All video is edited. It’s why they call it “produced.” Without offering evidence of exculpatory evidence withheld, the charge is as meaningless as Planned Parenthood is evil.
Actually, exculpatory evidence highlighting the information the Center for Medical Progress’ undeniably heavily edited videos has been repeatedly offered. And that goes for the seventh video that was released the same day as the Bozell-Graham column.
Surely Graham and Bozell cannot be unaware of criticism that the CMP videos are heavily and dishonestly edited. For them to deny that the evidence exists is truly bizarre.
The rest of their column is dedicated to whining that the big, bad liberal media is “censor[ing]” the story of the (again, heavily edited) CMP videos. That’s rich, given that the organization Bozell and Graham run, the Media Research Center, is conducting a major censorship campaign of its own.
As we’ve noted, no MRC website has reported on Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s apparent use of fetal tissue in his medical research. The blackout has continued: It’s been nearly a week since the story broke, and the MRC still hasn’t told its readers about it.
It’s the height of hypocrisy to accuse someone of engaging in the same exact behavior you are. But hypocrisy, it seems, is part of Bozell and Graham’s job description.