Media Matters spends an enormous amount of time spinning news stories and putting out propaganda to support their leftwing viewpoints. There's not really anything wrong with doing that--it's a free country still, after all--but it's amazing how the moonbats at MM and their willing sycophants on the left will come unglued over journalistic slights if those slights don't uphold their leftwing viewpoints.
Case in point: This Media Matters diatribe about a pro-life quote that appeared unchallenged in several news articles.
"Let's face it, they're in the business to kill babies for profit," (Colorado Right to Life vice president Leslie Hanks) said. "First and foremost, they get young girls hooked on their birth control pills, which don't work," Hanks said.
Right to Life followers are among the regular protesters -- Hanks calls them "rescuers" -- at Planned Parenthood's current locations, she said.
MM took issue with the "don't work" language of Hanks' statement and goes to great pains to debunk it.
In fact, according to the medical reference book Contraceptive Technology: Nineteenth Revised Edition (Ardent Media, 2007), oral contraceptives work with 92 percent efficacy for the first year of "[t]ypical [u]se" and are 99.7 percent effective with "[p]erfect [u]se."
"Perfect use"? Does that mean people who take the pill every single day at the exact same minute and never have any pregnancies? And does the MM story include information about the reduced efficacy rates for oral contraceptives when using antibiotics?
Compared to other contraceptive methods, the Pill is more effective, even for women who don't use them correctly. Of course, the health risks from oral contraceptives are more severe, as well. But don't expect Media Matters to spend time researching the increased risks of heart attack and stroke associated with oral contraceptives. They're way too busy complaining about a quote from an obviously biased actor in a news story.
Interestingly, Media Matters glossed over the part of Hanks' statement concerning Planned Parenthood's financial incentives for killing babies. Maybe that's because they just couldn't spin these numbers. But don't worry. The useful idiots will ignore the inconvenient truth, as well.
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