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Here we go again with one of these right-wing activists making another undercover video attacking Planned Parenthood and the next thing you know, Republicans are pushing another anti-abortion bill for a non-existent problem on the floor of the House.

As TPM noted, the bill just failed: Gender-Based Abortion Ban Fails In House:

GOP-backed legislation aimed at criminalizing abortions on the basis of the unborn child’s gender failed to pass in the House today by 246-168, having needed two-thirds majority under a suspension of the rules provision.

Here's more from Media Matters on anti-choice activist Lila Rose's appearance on this Tuesday's The O'Reilly Factor: O'Reilly And Lila Rose Team Up To Spread More Lies About Planned Parenthood:

Discredited anti-choice activist Lila Rose went on The O'Reilly Factor to push her latest hoax video attacking Planned Parenthood. Rose and host Bill O'Reilly want people to think that, in the words of Rose's group, Planned Parenthood is complicit in "widespread sex-selection by means of abortion." In fact, Planned Parenthood has stated that it "finds the concept of sex selection deeply unsettling" and the organization "does not offer sex determination services; our ultrasound services are limited to medical purposes."

Furthermore, Huffington Post reported that Planned Parenthood "condemns seeking abortions on the basis of gender, but its policy is to provide 'high quality, confidential, nonjudgmental care to all who come into' its health centers."

O'Reilly and Rose mentioned none of this. Instead, they aired footage from Rose's hoax video of a person walking into a Planned Parenthood office and pretending to be a patient. O'Reilly and Rose pretended that the actions of the employee were representative of the organization. O'Reilly even asked "Are we now China in this country? If Planned Parenthood is advising woman to abort because of gender choice, then we are China. And you should remember that the next time a politician or famous person endorses Planned Parenthood." Read on...

You can read more in their latest article on Rose's effort to manufacture evidence that Planned Parenthood facilitates gender-based abortion here: Hoax Du Jour: Live Action Brings Bogus "Sex Selection" Attack To New York.

The media coverage on this has been terrible from other networks as well, with discussions on this latest vote in the House, but no mention of the fake controversy being drummed up by Rose and organization. As to O'Reilly continuing to assault Planned Parenthood and a woman's reproductive rights, it seems nothing's changed since O'Reilly got his wish with the assassination of Dr. George Tiller.

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From News Hounds -- Mike Huckabee Pimps Lila Rose's Radical Anti-Choice Agenda:

Lila Rose, is a pal of James O'Keefe and darling of the anti-choice movement and its media mouthpiece Fox "News" which was more than happy to provide her bogus Planned Parenthood "sting" videos with supportive coverage. As Rose's videos, which purport to show Planned Parenthood assisting sex traffickers, and their subsequent validation occurred at the time that the radical anti-choice GOP Congress were trying to defund Planned Parenthood (whatever happened to job creation?!) there was clearly an anti-choice agenda on the part of "America's newsroom." It's no secret that Mike Huckabee is part of the radical, anti-choice efforts to recriminalize abortion and birth control. As such, it's no surprise that he would have interviewed Lila Rose whose James O'Keefe type of videos are part and parcel of the attempt to bring back the bad old days of back alley abortions or as the teabaggers would say, "taking back America." And while reality based politicians are concerned about the economy, Huckabee says that abortion is the most important issue. Nice to see that he's using his platform (or is it "pulpit?") at Fox to advance the GOP war on women of which sweet, virginal Lila is a commanding general. And in addition to promoting radical anti-choice memes, Huckabee was able to work in the name of George Soros - along with Planned Parenthood, another nemesis for Fox News.

As they went onto note, here's how Huckabee opened up his show.

HUCKABEE: Well look out Planned Parenthood, because Lila Rose is back. Lila is the twenty two year old president of LiveAction.org. That's the group that shot an undercover video where a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute talked to a Planned Parenthood staffer about bringing in some underage sex workers for a checkup.

Except of course that's not true. From Media Matters -- Why Is Live Action Doctoring Its Planned Parenthood Audio?:

When the anti-abortion rights propagandists at Live Action began releasing their Planned Parenthood smear videos earlier this week, we explained that their claim that Planned Parenthood was covering-up "child sex trafficking" was clearly a lie.

That's because way back on January 18, Planned Parenthood's president wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder about the incidents and requested an FBI investigation into the possibility that "an individual or individuals are engaged in activities that violate several federal criminal statutes relating to sex trafficking involving minors."

So Planned Parenthood obviously wasn't covering up anything; they were fulfilling their obligation to keep children safe.

We also warned that media should be skeptical about the heavily edited video footage released by Live Action.

As it turns out, we were right to raise concerns.

More there so go read the rest. Now back to Huckabee.

HUCKABEE: Well, that video had Planned Parenthood so up in arms that George Soros actually held a conference call about what he could do to take down Lila Rose and her group.

Actually, no, it didn't.

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By now everyone has heard about James O'Keefe and his attempt to "punk" CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau. That special aired over the weekend and it basically glorified a bunch of right wing wingnut ambush "journalists" with friendly interviews and no perspective from anyone being harmed by their actions. The special completely glossed over what happened with James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles and their doctored tapes of ACORN employees. They showed the two of them in their pimp and prostitute outfits without mentioning that they weren't wearing those clothes when they entered the ACORN offices.

The special featured Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles, Lila Rose, Jason Mattera and Ryan Sorba, many of whom you would have never heard of if you weren't watching Fox News. The show featured a series of softball with the group that were about as hard-hitting as you might expect when watching the Oprah Winfrey Show.

I would imagine that it would have been all favorable coverage of them had it not been for the stunt O'Keefe tried to pull on Boudreau. The show basically glorified the type of crap Bill O'Reilly has been doing for ages now and treated it as some new form of journalism that's going to keep the "mainstream" media honest.

All they did is lend some very undeserved credibility to Andrew Breitbart and his minions who have a terrible history with ambushing politicians or anyone else they decide to scapegoat for the week and then putting out highly edited videos later. That's not journalism. CNN should really be ashamed of themselves for this horrid piece of "investigative journalism."

You can read the entire transcript here.

The clip above is a bit from the end of the special. Apparently James O'Keefe is going to be featured in a music video and thinks he's Michael Jackson reincarnated.