How is Planned Parenthood like Benghazi? The desire of House Republicans to investigate it can't be contained by the normal number of committees, and they're talking about a
special committee to carry out a partisan witch hunt. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has a better idea:
investigate the making of the anti-Planned Parenthood videos that kicked off the latest crusade to defund the organization, even if it means shutting down the government in the attempt.
CNN's Jake Tapper tried to get Pelosi to express polite shock at the reality of legal fetal tissue donation on Sunday, but she wasn't biting:
TAPPER: On the subject of the Planned Parenthood and the attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, have you seen the videos? Is there not anything on those videos that bothers you at all?
PELOSI: I don't stipulate that these videos are real. And the fact is -- and fact is that the research that is being criticized there is research that has been supported. Now, I haven't seen -- I've seen some news reports of it, but I also know that it's not real and you can create any reality that you want.
TAPPER: So OK. Even if you don't accept the videos on their face --
PELOSI: I think they should be investigated as to how they obtained those and doctored those and then had them be accepted as something that was an indictment against Planned Parenthood because that's not true.
The videos are misleading at best, and filmed through deception. And of course, they've provided the basis for outright lies from the likes of Carly Fiorina. Good for Pelosi for not taking the bait Tapper was dangling to express squeamishness about anything other than the falsehoods involved.