Michelle Malkin reports on a most deceptive piece in the New Liberal (York) Times concerning the case of a woman who was reportedly imprisoned for undergoing an abortion in El Salvador.
Remember this name: Carmen Climaco.
The next time you hear a New York Times columnist defend the paper’s commitment to accuracy, fairness, and ethical standards, give them two words: Carmen Climaco.
The next time an MSM apologist denies liberal bias, repeat: Carmen Climaco.
Today’s Vent covers ombudsman Byron Calame’s stunning Sunday column calling the Times to task for its false, sloppy, and unrepentant pro-abortion propganda packaged as a New York Times Magazine cover story on abortion in El Salvador by freelance writer Jack Hitt.
The sensational piece alleged that women there had been thrown in prison for 30-year terms for having had abortions. Hitt described his visit to one of them, inmate Carmen Climaco. “She is now 26 years old, four years into her 30-year sentence” for aborting an 18-week-old fetus.
Cruel. Horrible. Outrageous. And utterly, demonstrably, false. Climaco had actually been convicted of murder for strangling her newborn baby.
Lifesite first exposed the truth after easily obtaining court documents in the case. Calame followed up and also independently obtained the documents easily—records which Hitt didn’t bother to try and get for himself to verify the propaganda being fed to him.
Yet another example of how the progressive(ly) liberal media create stories and reports to promote their own values and beliefs. Forget the truth and fair reporting, what matters most to the MSM is creating the image of women in the US being imprisoned if abortion becomes illegal. Amazing.
