From The Daily Caller:
White House Says Planned Parenthood Videos Are Fake, Cites Planned Parenthood
The White House expressed its firm belief Thursday that recently-released videos attacking Planned Parenthood are “fraudulent.” Their source: Planned Parenthood.
Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, was speaking with reporters when they raised the matter of the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress which appear to show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of fetal organs for profit, a violation of federal law. He claimed the videos were released in a “fraudulent way” with “not a lot of evidence” behind them.
“There is ample reason to think that this is merely the tried and true tactic that we’ve seen from extremists on the right to edit this video and selectively release this edited version of the video that grossly distorts the position of the person that’s actually speaking,” Earnest said.
Of course the videos are edited. The Center for Medical Progress has several hours of video and they cherry-picked the scenes to produce a five minute video. The important thing to realize - something that Josh Earnest doesn't seem to grasp - is that they also released the entire video file - several hours worth. Nobody can make any claims of falsification - all of the source material has been released to the public.
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