Suck Up CBS to Planned Parenthood Head: Is Defunding a ‘War on Women?’

[See NewsBusters for more.] Who’s the best woman to represent International Women’s Day? Why, Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood, of course. That was the thinking of the hosts of CBS This Morning on Wednesday. Naturally, the journalists offered softballs to the head of the abortion provider and repeated liberal talking points. Democratic donor Gayle King provided this easy question: “Some people have described [the defunding effort] or called it a war on women. Do you see it a that way?” King helpfully added that “in the court of public opinion, 62 percent of the voters do not want federal funding cut from Planned Parenthood.” Guest co-host Anthony Mason blandly asked this query on the defunding effort: “Who is directly effected if you lose this money?”