Just like Hillary Clinton made her position on Planned Parenthood loud and clear yesterday, so is the White House today. But they are going even a step further, calling the Center for Medical Progress an ‘extremist’ organization that falsified videos to make Planned Parenthood look bad:
WASHINGTON TIMES – The White House dismissed the need for a federal investigation of Planned Parenthood Friday, citing the opinions of three liberal newspapers as evidence that “impartial observers” are raising questions about the authenticity of a pro-life group’s undercover videos on the sale of fetal tissue.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest also suggested that the pro-life group, the Center for Medical Progress, is an “extremist” organization. And he said for the first time that President Obama would veto any effort by Congress to defund Planned Parenthood.
Asked by a reporter whether White House officials believe Planned Parenthood should be investigated for the alleged sale of fetal tissue, Mr. Earnest said “those who have taken a close look” at the undercover videos “have raised some significant concerns about their authenticity.” He then listed three newspapers that endorsed President Obama for re-election in 2012.
“The New York Times described this as a ‘campaign of deception,’” Mr. Earnest said. “The Seattle Times described this as a ‘manufactured crisis.’ The [San Jose] Mercury-News even described those videos as ‘grossly misleading.’”
He referred to the journalists who wrote those opinions as people “who could legitimately be described as impartial observers.”
“The scrutiny that these videos have gotten thus far from a handful of news organizations raises significant doubts about their authenticity,” Mr. Earnest said.
The president’s spokesman also suggested that CMP is extremist and that it distributed heavily edited videos to mislead the public.
“We have seen this kind of tactic be attempted by other extremist organizations that have an ideological agenda,” Mr. Earnest said.