In a July 13 NewsBusters post, Tim Graham is upset that the AP described a 6-month-old fetus killed in an assault as, well, a fetus. Graham quoted a 2008 column by his boss, Brent Bozell, calling “fetus” a “cold, humanity-negating word.”
It can be easily argued that the term ” illegal alien” is also a “cold, humanity-negating word” — after all, an undocumented person is not an “alien,” he’s human. But NewsBusters uses that term all the time. And even Bozell wrote a column headlined “The Pro-Illegal Alien Media.”
Imposing conservative correctness on the issue of immigration, however, does not pay the political dividends that it does on the issue of abortion. Even Graham and Bozell know that.