Watching this latest republican attempt to bury the truth about doctored videos this morning, what was supposed to be a hearing on the funding of Planned Parenthood was instead a series of lies and innuendo in the form of "questions" put to the CEO of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards. This is but one of those lies told by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (republican) Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform link: http://www.c-span.org/...
And the live link as the hearing continues: http://www.c-span.org/...
Here is the hearing | September 29, 2015
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on her organization’s use of taxpayer funding.
John Amato @ Crooks & Liars sums up the republican charade:
Ranking member Elijah Cummings on the hearing gets to the truth of the matter explaining why the republicans are trying to restrict Medicaid dollars from being used at any facility for any purpose that provides abortion services
Link: http://www.c-span.org/...
Representative Elijah Cummings repeatedly asked of Jason Chaffetz (R), whether or not forced-birther David Daleiden of "center for Medical Progress" responsible for the faked videos, will be called by republicans to testify under oath before the committee. Courts have ruled against CMP Daleiden's secrecy agenda on a couple of cases so one would think that republicans claiming their goal is to seek the truth would also want to get answers from the source of the fraudulent video footage.
Jason Chaffetz refused to give a direct answer to ranking member Elijah Cummings on that.
Update: with this just out by Laura Clawson on the relentless attack of Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards:
Update2: this is very good. Brainwrap has corrected Jason Chaffetz lie with an accurate chart:
After listing to this hearing this morning instead of finishing up some stone work, it's time to get to it - be back in awhile
Just one more thing. Here is a collection of links establishing the methods and a timeline of the GOP's War on women and their PPFA assault (from July) | With research from Irin Carmon, one of the leading advocates for women's rights and the politics involved are these recent reports on the latest campaign of deception by anti-women's rights aggressors: