Unbelievable: NPR Cites Planned Parenthood’s Poll But Omits Its Name On-Air

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Conservative Byte

On Tuesday, NPR somehow thought a poll commissioned by abortion behemoth Planned Parenthood on the controversy over an ObamaCare birth control mandate was newsworthy enough to play up on its website. But later in the day, on All Things Considered, a show that reaches millions in the U.S., the media outlet spotlighted how the “new polling…suggests most voters, including Catholics, support the measure.”

Correspondent Scott Horsley noted the “survey released today by Public Policy Polling,” but completely failed to mention Planned Parenthood’s name during his report. Horsley also highlighted a disturbing strategy from the pro-mandate camp without: “Supporters of the new policy are belatedly trying to refocus attention in a more popular direction, away from religious freedom and towards women’s health care.”

Host Audie Cornish introduced the correspondents report by stating that the federal mandate “would require most employers, including Catholic hospitals and universities, to include birth control in their employees’ health insurance. Catholic leaders have denounced the policy as an assault on religious freedom.” But Cornish then added the line about “new polling…suggests most voters…support the measure.”

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  • True Patriot

    Host Audie Cornish, Planned Parenthood and NPR routinely LIE!! Don’t believe a word of Cornish saying that most voters support government-forced contraceptive/child-killing mandate in employers’ health insurance including the Catholic Church. This IS very “diabolical” in nature. PURE EVIL!!! This is for the complete destruciton of this nation. Wake up, America!! They are destroying America from within. See website: http://www.haasstrep68.com

  • Mary/Atlanta

    This is so sickening. We have a President who supports the horrific partial birth abortion (a matter of record that he staunchly supported partial birth abortion while in the Senate) and uses our tax dollars to FUND Planned Parenthood/abortions. Now we have this mandate that is an assault on religious freedom. Obama and the left are ruining our nation.

    • Concerned American Citizen

      Catholics can not in good faith take the oath of supremacy to the King/Queen of a country because they can not acknowledge , him/ or her as head of the church.There is no way that this administration would think to try this power play against religious freedom mask as health care toward those of Islam faith.
      To hold power you must hold on to the hearts and minds of the people. God is a powerful weapon. Each religion wants their way, the only way so they fight with each other about way’s to worship and to be the right way. They do this in God’s name convinced that they are right because they do.
      In this country we have the United States Constitution. The freedom to worship the way we choose. This president and his allies believe that they have the ordained right to overthrow that constitutional law and right. They appear to think that the Constitution isn’t worth spit. This president, ( an elected official ) is under a delusional assumption that he is ” our KEEPER”. Those are his own words. He takes those words from his church under the Reverend Wright. The theology in that church is taught so that political pull may be used to further agendas under the guise of God’s name and with some words from scripture taken out of context. This president showed his true faith before he was elected. Apparently, the good folks of our great country failed to listen closely and did not have enough useful knowledge of what was necessary to interpret the signs.

  • Tpatriot

    The simple solution is for companies to eliminate these benefit programs completely. Let each individual be responsible for purchasing their own insurance, if you want time off fine, you just don’t get paid for that time. It’s called personal responsibility.

  • Jonathan Gartner

    Of course they lie they can not make their arguement with the truth. NBC, CBS, and ABC all fall in to the same area. For example when the Komen organization said they were withdrawing from Planned Parent Hood because they were under investigation and all the liberals decided to jump on them for it because they (PPH) said they had health care for women please explain to me that not one PPH location has a mamogram machine but plenty of death in abortions.

  • Karen

    The liberals keep repeating the mantra that this is all about women’s health issue not impeding on religious freedom. If that is true than they, who consider themselves as “compassionate”, along with PP et al can hand out these contraceptions for free and keep the church out of it. Especially after all the money they received concerning the Komen debacle. They can freely afford to offer all the services they expect the church to pay for. They would if they were truly concerned about women’s health.

  • Marc Jeric

    Mullah Obama, or as I prefer to call that marxist Muslim from Kenya Abu Hussein al-Mombassa, is being helped in his efforts to communize America by our MSM (i.e., Marxist-Stalinist Media) : ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, CNN, NY Times, Wash. Post, LA Times, Boston Herald,…

  • Marc Jeric

    Komen Foundation fights breast cancer in women by paying for early screenings. Planned Parenthood performs 325,000 abortions per year, for which it receives a federal government subsidy of $325,000,000 per year; it also performs ZERO breast cancer screenings.

  • Tom Anderson

    It is ironic that Obama is attempting to force religious institutions including those colleges and schools named after St. Thomas More to go against their beliefs. Just wondering if he fancies himself as the modern era King Henry VIII.