Rather than address the revolting and disturbing images and audio in the Planned Parenthood (PP) videos, liberals continue (1) to focus on Carly Fiorina's hurried description of a short segment of one of the videos during a GOP debate, and (2) to claim that the videos have been deceptively edited.
Fiorina's description was essentially, basically accurate, but her brief summary of the PP videos in the middle of a debate is hardly the issue.
As for the editing issue, liberals have greatly exaggerated the nature and impact of the editing that has been done to the videos (the links at the end include a detailed response to PP's claims about the editing). For example, just because an audio segment is placed over earlier video footage to make a point clearer does not change the fact that the audio says what it says and that the footage shows what it shows. As long as words have not been spliced to change the intended meaning, the audio is what it is. Ditto for the video footage.
The issue is the images and audio in the PP videos. The editing claims are a distraction. The National Right to Life Committee:
In the links below, I have included an article that refutes PP's claims about the editing of the videos. The other links document the disturbing visual and audio material found in the videos.
Deconstructing Planned Parenthood's Failed "Forensic Analysis" Report This is a detailed response to PP's claims about the editing of the videos.
Planned Parenthood to Congress: Ignore what you see, hear in those videos | NRL News Today
Planned Parenthood Profits From The Illegal Sale Of Baby Body Parts After Abortion!!
Fiorina's description was essentially, basically accurate, but her brief summary of the PP videos in the middle of a debate is hardly the issue.
As for the editing issue, liberals have greatly exaggerated the nature and impact of the editing that has been done to the videos (the links at the end include a detailed response to PP's claims about the editing). For example, just because an audio segment is placed over earlier video footage to make a point clearer does not change the fact that the audio says what it says and that the footage shows what it shows. As long as words have not been spliced to change the intended meaning, the audio is what it is. Ditto for the video footage.
The issue is the images and audio in the PP videos. The editing claims are a distraction. The National Right to Life Committee:
Newspapers dutifully reported that “Planned Parenthood Video Was Altered, Analysis Says” (NY Times 8/28/15), “Videos deceptively edited, Planned Parenthood tells Congress” (Washington Post, 8/27/15), or “Planned Parenthood alleges ‘smear’ in letter to Congress (AP, 8/31/15).
These allegations may not be as dramatic as they sound. Fusion GPS admits that in more than 12 hours of tape, “This analysis did not reveal widespread evidence of substantive video manipulation, but we did identify cuts, skips, missing tape, and changes in camera angle.”
It went on to say “many of these edits removed likely irrelevant content from the beginning and end of the interviews, [but] all four videos also contained intentional edits that removed content from the middle of the videos.”
These allegations may not be as dramatic as they sound. Fusion GPS admits that in more than 12 hours of tape, “This analysis did not reveal widespread evidence of substantive video manipulation, but we did identify cuts, skips, missing tape, and changes in camera angle.”
It went on to say “many of these edits removed likely irrelevant content from the beginning and end of the interviews, [but] all four videos also contained intentional edits that removed content from the middle of the videos.”
CMP claims that some of the larger edits were simply gaps between meetings, or when someone went to the restroom. (CMP’s full response can be found here.)
Fusion GPS analysts try to argue that damning statements like “another boy,” while showing no evidence of being spliced in or manipulated on the tape, may have been preceded by edited out comments from the CMP actors designed to elicit comments about the aborted baby’s gender.
When the videos clearly show people in the Planned Parenthood labs clinically picking over fetal parts like brains, eyes, hearts, livers, arms or legs, disputes over exactly what prompted Planned Parenthood employees to make awkward admissions of the baby’s sex and humanity seem to be mere diversions. ( Planned Parenthood to Congress: Ignore what you see, hear in those videos | NRL News Today )
Fusion GPS analysts try to argue that damning statements like “another boy,” while showing no evidence of being spliced in or manipulated on the tape, may have been preceded by edited out comments from the CMP actors designed to elicit comments about the aborted baby’s gender.
When the videos clearly show people in the Planned Parenthood labs clinically picking over fetal parts like brains, eyes, hearts, livers, arms or legs, disputes over exactly what prompted Planned Parenthood employees to make awkward admissions of the baby’s sex and humanity seem to be mere diversions. ( Planned Parenthood to Congress: Ignore what you see, hear in those videos | NRL News Today )
In the links below, I have included an article that refutes PP's claims about the editing of the videos. The other links document the disturbing visual and audio material found in the videos.
Deconstructing Planned Parenthood's Failed "Forensic Analysis" Report This is a detailed response to PP's claims about the editing of the videos.
Planned Parenthood to Congress: Ignore what you see, hear in those videos | NRL News Today
Planned Parenthood Profits From The Illegal Sale Of Baby Body Parts After Abortion!!
