Last night , Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, attacking Planned Parenthood and almost in tears, described a video she saw of “a fully formed fetus on the table, it’s heart beating, it’s legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.”
She “dared” Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch those tapes.
Today, the Wall Street Journal — not a liberal rag — claims:
But the image she described isn’t in any of the videos released by the antiabortion group. Instead, one video from the group depicts a former employee of a tissue procurement company stating what she says she saw at a Planned Parenthood clinic. There was never any video that depicted, as Ms. Fiorina stated, a live fetus on a table being prepared for organ harvesting.
I thought that Ms. Fiorina did pretty well — relative to the other candidates — in the debate, but it is disappointing that she has not been totally up-front on such an important and emotional issue.
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But — even worse — tonight, GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump in a question and answer session at a New Hampshire town hall meeting showed once again his true colors by answering the very first question as follows:
A man in the audience asked: “We have a problem in this country, it’s called Muslims. Our current President is one. We know he’s not even an American. We have training camps growing where they want to kill us. That’s my question, when can we get rid of them?”
Instead of correcting the man, something Senator John McCain had the character to do under very similar circumstances in 2008, Trump responded:
…we’re going to be looking at a lot of different things…A lot of people are saying that and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We’re going to be looking at that and a lot of different things.
Watch the full clip here, and wonder, and worry.
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The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.