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On July 8, President Biden said:
Just last week, it was reported that a 10-year-old girl was a rape victim — 10 years old — and she was forced to have to travel out of state to Indiana to seek to terminate the pregnancy and maybe save her life.”
The source was an Indiana Ob-gyn doctor, reported in the Indianapolis Star. The right wing smear machine went into warp speed mode, including attacks on the story by Ohio’s AG and Governor.
Just a day after President Biden’s speech, the Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler wrote: A one-source story about a 10-year-old and an abortion goes viral, turbo-charging the right wing outrage machine. Jonathan Turley, apologist for every horrible person and thing imaginable cited Kessler in the New York Post to validate criticism of the story.
Today, the rapist was arrested. Kessler “updated” the story, but did not apologize or otherwise admit any error.
This raises many questions about flaws in the so called liberal media (SCLM):
- Why did Kessler jump on this story?
- Why was an arrest necessary to validate the story?
- Why wasn’t a doctor’s report good enough?
- Wasn’t Kessler aware the right would use his story to go all out in attacking the girl and her doctor?
- Doesn’t this show the “bend-over-backwards” tendency of the SCLM to find some equivalency, no matter how false on the “left”?
- Doesn’t Kessler realize that we are up against a fusillade of fascist lies and he should not contribute to anything that remotely shows any equivalence?