Friday, August 14, 2015

The ‘Wait, What?!’ of the Week, August 14, 2015

The New York Times recently ran and editorial commending an animal-rights group, which recorded undercover video of animal mistreatment in a food processing plant. Here is the concluding paragraph of the editorial: “In a country that lavishes love and legal protections on house pets, factory-farmed animals are left out in the cold, exempt from almost all animal-cruelty laws. As a result they suffer torture and other mistreatment to a degree that is hard to imagine. The only way to make it stop is to ensure that Americans can see for themselves what goes on behind the factory doors.”

A couple weeks earlier, however, the New York Times denounced as “dishonest” and “deceptive” the undercover videos that show Planned Parenthood officials cavalierly discussing how they routinely alter abortion procedures to maximize the number of intact baby body parts to be sold.

Wait, What?! Undercover videos are good…if they embarrass people the Times doesn’t like. But undercover videos are bad…if they embarrass the Times’ political allies? Hmm, can anyone say “hypocritical”?

I’m sure we’ll soon be seeing a Times editorial that concludes with this paragraph: “In a country that lavishes love and legal protections on wanted babies, aborted babies are left out in the cold, exempt from almost all human-cruelty laws. As a result they suffer torture and other mistreatment to a degree that is hard to imagine. The only way to make it stop is to ensure that Americans can see for themselves what goes on behind Planned Parenthood’s doors.” 

Yes, that editorial should be appearing in the Times any day now.


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