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Breitbart, Live Action post controversial Planned Parenthood video in shadow of Congressional abortion debate

By | 02.01.11 | 1:38 pm

A new conservative activist hidden-camera video dropped on the internet Tuesday as part of a multi-state effort to catch Planned Parenthood staff on tape offering assistance to men running a child prostitution ring. The immediate aim of the video and its wide distribution is to strip Planned Parenthood of government funding. The larger aim is to blow wind into the sails of the dramatic anti-abortion legislation the new Republican-controlled Congress has introduced that seeks to radically limit funding for abortions in cases of rape, end private insurance policies that provide abortion coverage and defund organizations that provide abortions, like Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the nation but also one the largest non-abortion reproductive and sexual health care providers coast to coast.

Sherrod to sue Breitbart, joins ACORN employees in seeking redress

By | 07.29.10 | 3:42 pm

AP reports that Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod has declared she will sue right-wing activist publisher Andrew Breitbart for posting a tendentious blog and misleadingly edited video that painted her as a racist. Breitbart post on Sherrod fed…

Wednesday Links: Gardner gives Barton back his BP cash

By | 07.21.10 | 1:27 pm

Fourth-District GOP Congressional candidate Cory Gardner this quarter returned $1000 to Joe Barton, the Texas representative who invests (unwisely) with BP and who apologized to the oil giant for the government’s demand that it set aside billions to…