Lila Rose on The O’Reilly Factor: The morality of investigating Planned Parenthood
UPDATE 4/8, 5:41a: Below is the segment.
Lila really held her own while also managing to get in anti-Planned Parenthood talking points. Leslie Marshall was ridiculously off-base, pretending journalistic outfits never go undercover to get a story. Marshall must never have watch 60 Minutes.
And, as Lila points out, if only journalists would do their job investigating PP, she wouldn’t need to…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZeS0hVs5Qk[/youtube]
4/6, 5:31p: Lila Rose of Live Action is slated to discuss the latest on Planned Parenthood’s corruption and the need for undercover work on Fox’s O’Reilly Factor TONIGHT at 8p EST.
LA also has a new post on PP’s latest outrageous statement that “emergency rooms will be over-run” if their $363M in taxpayer funding is cut off.
Be sure to check it out.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Is PPA inferring that if they don’t get the $363 million, that women will then get “back-alley” abortions, and because of the clueless operations, they will have to go to emergency rooms?
I think Congress needs to haul them in for a Congressional investigation, because if they’ve been genuinely using those funds for abortions – then they would have been violating the law.
Chris, this is the typical hysterical overreaction we get whenever it is proposed that we cut ANY government spending.
Lila did a great job on Fox. I love it how she doesn’t let the other side control the argument.
To be fair, Fox, in general, doesn’t let the other side control any argument. O’reilly would have propped her up had a slip occured.
Volunteer, not sure what you’re talking about. I hardly ever watch Fox anymore because there are far too many Democrats and pro-aborts on there. I am not interested in hearing leftist propaganda from some Democratic Party/Planned Parenthood spokesmouth for five minutes and then have Bill “No Spin Unless It’s For Abortion” O’Reilly say “Thanks, you’re a stand-up guy/gal.” O’Reilly especially lets the pro-aborts get away with saying any stupid stuff.
Fox News tries way too hard to be fair and balanced. And where does it get them? Every leftist and Democrat hates them anyway, and they are so certain that Fox ONLY allows Republicans to speak, even if they never actually watch Fox. They should really just fire all of the liberals and Democrats who are constantly on the channel as contributors, since having them on is a complete waste.
Thats correct John.
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Thank God for Lila Rose
She is wonderful! Go Lila!
It is a bit silly seeing O’Reilly talk about “journalism” on the Fox Political Entertainment Channel. I wonder if the lead in video had more protest footage of Madison with palm trees in the background…
Tell you what is striking about Lila.
It’s that she looks striking.
A pretty, young, innocent-looking thing like her walking into a clinic.
Totally puts people’s guard down.
Ex-GOP, political commentators are supposed to talk about their opinions. The O’Reilly Factor isn’t intended to be the just-the-facts news broadcast. Do you have similar problems with political commentary shows on other news channels?
Fox has asked Planned Parenthood representatives to be guests on various shows and they never accept. PP doesn’t want to have an open debate in any forum they can’t control because they don’t want to be asked the tough questions and expected to answer them.
“I wonder if the lead in video had more protest footage of Madison with palm trees in the background…”
I see you get your news from Comedy Central. Of course.
I hate when people talk about the Hyde amendment. If planned parenthood is getting over 300 million tax payer dollars (364 million is it?) and they are doing abortions that MONEY IS GOING TO ABORTIONS! DUH. They may still charge the client for the abortion or bill medicaid but tax dollars are still going to prop up the abortion chain giant. This isn’t rocket science. If you have a glass of spring water and you add a little tap water then take a drink, maybe the ACTUAL water molecules you drank were spring water but you can’t deny tap water molecules were used to fill the glass.
PP uses that 360 million tax payer dollars to keep their clinics open. Clinics that do abortions. Therefore, tax dollars are going to prop up abortion.
Lila did a GREAT job! She is calm and cool and doesn’t back down. Love her!
Ex-GOP,
Now tell us how intellectually superior you are to the people who watch Fox News, who beats all other cable outlets COMBINED. Perhaps they know something you don’t?
As for Leslie’s claim during the interview that investigative journalism doesn’t use hidden cameras… what can one say? Clueless isn’t accurate. Liar comes closest. Geraldo Rivera was a young up-and-coming journalist when he investigated the Willowbrook State School for the mentally retarded in Staten Island, New York. He didn’t give advanced warning of his arrival and essentially bum-rushed his way in with the cameras of his day to reveal the truth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_sYn8DnlH4
Because of his work, we have forever changed the way we approach the developmentally disabled. Everyone should look at the O’Reilly video again and take note of something.
Follow Leslie’s spinning. First she claims that when she went for a master’s degree in journalism she wasn’t taught about hidden cameras and wires. (Where did she go?)
When Bill calls her on that, citing all the big journalist houses that do it, she actually sputters. She then changes the story from “Journalists don’t do that” to “We don’t misrepresent who we are when we do do that.”
Then, Leslie returns to the attempt at a bald-faced lie: ‘NPR wasn’t lying about being left wing. EVERY major news outlet has left and right people at the top.’
When Bill calls her on the fact that they can’t trot out ANY conservatives or blacks now that Juan Williams is fired, she laughs a derisive laugh and says she can’t see the color on the radio.
That’s what they do when cornered. They laugh in derision, expecting us to be cowed into embarassment because of that derisive, “Oh you poor ignorant slob” laugh. This is precisely the moment when they are at their most vulnerable in a debate, and precisely when we need to pour on the facts and not back down. That’s the moment when Bill brought Lila in, and Leslie never recovered.
It should be noted how Leslie sat seething with narrowed eyes while Lila spoke.
And Lila smiled and smiled and smiled.
Any “journalist” worth their salt would look into the fact that an affiliate has to pay dues to any group they belong to or else the higher up group would not have monies to operate. This is true for all groups. Any affiliate of Planned Parenthood that says that they do not do abortions is not admitting that they help fund activities for and with others that do them.
As for PP’s trying to minimize the amount of abortions that they do … sounds like the person that says that the guy is such a good provider and ‘only’ beats the wife and kids when he is upset.
Sounds more and more like most “journalist” are not worth anything.
Marauder
That is my point – O’Reilly’s show isn’t news and I wouldn’t call him a journalist currently (though those lines are always tougher to define) – he’s a commentator. He’s political entertainment…which I said in my first post. Anybody with that style show on any network I’d throw in the same boat.
John -
(I live in Wisconsin) – that footage got a lot of coverage in this area.
Gerard -
Britney Spears has sold a lot more albums than Miles Davis…are you saying just because something is bigger, it is better?
I’m not intellectually superior to those who watch Fox – I just take issue with somebody who’s a political entertainer talking about journalistic integrity, especially when his show has been caught doing multiple questionable things, including using fake video footage in broadcasts.
If you watch Fox news, that is great – a lot of old people do, and old people can be pretty cool – so I’m fine with that.
X-GOP, I’d say given your stance on abortion YOU are saying that because something is bigger its better.
Ummm, so I’m pro-life, so I’m saying that God is bigger than us? Babies are bigger than sin? I’m confused Sydney.
as usual Ex-RINO. Put down the glass of Kool-aid and step back away from table.