CBS Avoids Saying Democrats Held Up Zika Money for Planned Parenthood

Scott Whitlock | June 29, 2016
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[See NewsBusters for more.] The journalists at NBC’s Today show on Wednesday offered silence as Senate Democrats held up over $1 billion in Zika funding because of concern for Planned Parenthood. The program never mentioned the awkward development and it’s not as though there wasn’t time, given the show’s four hour length. Despite Tuesday’s terrorist bombing in Istanbul, Today still managed four minutes and 34 seconds on not-so important “summer beauty trends.” Over on CBS This Morning, co-host Norah O’Donnell noted that “the funding bill to fight Zika failed yesterday.” But when it came to a reason, she only vaguely noted, “Senate Democrats opposed the measure because it did not provide enough spending and included politically motivated language.” What, exactly, is “politically motivated language?”

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