Monday, August 18, 2008
When Will the Apologies Come In? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
For months now, Jill Stanek, Terry Jeffrey, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, the National Right to Life Committee, a number of people here, among others have highlighted the radicalism of Barack Obama on abortion, focusing on the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act.
NARAL criticized Bill Bennett for doing so on CNN in a press release saying:
On today's edition of CNN's "Situation Room," Bill Bennett made outright false statements about Sen. Barack Obama's record on choice.
Bennett claimed that a so-called "born-alive" bill on which Sen. Obama voted during his time in the Illinois Senate was identical to a federal bill that NARAL Pro-Choice America did not oppose. Bennett is absolutely wrong.
The Illinois bill did not include a provision that explicitly avoided entanglement in the abortion debate, as the federal bill did. It is inaccurate for any reporter, commentator, or surrogate for the McCain campaign to suggest otherwise.
In short order, the Obama campaign followed suit,
posting on their website a headline stating: "CNN and Bennet's Inaccurate Claim That IL 'Born Alive' Legislation Obama Opposed Was the Same as Federal Legislation He Supported" and then it went on stating why Obama opposed the Born-Alive Act and how he did so because, contrary to what supposed lying liars said, the Illinois law was not the same as the federal law that passed unanimously.
Now that the Obama campaign has admitted the Obama campaign was wrong, not Bennett and the rest of us, can we have our apologies?
08/18 09:14 AM
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