More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
On her Thursday MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell fretted that Republican candidates would be not be properly “fact-checked” during the upcoming presidential debate, especially on the Planned Parenthood scandal: “...one of the issues is going to be whether there's going to be any fact checking by the moderators. Certainly we can all do it later after the fact. But the Planned Parenthood debate has not been very fact-based because of those horrific videos, the edited videos.”
Mitchell conceded “a misstep by the people involved,” who “were caught in a very unflattering way,” but argued that “the fact of the case is that – according to all fact-checking – Planned Parenthood does not spend any government money and only 3% of their budget is on anything related to abortions.”