Wow, what a day. There’s a movie in theaters (“Unplanned”) showing how the horrors of what Planned Parenthood does turned a former director into a pro-life activist, and a journalist actually dared to call Beto O’Rourke’s position on abortion “extreme.”

You might remember that O’Rourke slyly changed the subject when asked specifically about his stance on third-trimester abortions during one of his famous countertop sermons. Then he was confronted by journalist Salena Zito, who asked him specifically about his stance on third-trimester abortions, and once again he deflected to the worn-out talking point, “I know better than to assume anything about a woman’s decision … when it comes her to reproductive rights.”

So it’s refreshing to read Zito in the Washington Examiner call O’Rourke’s abortion stance “extreme,” a word rarely applied to progressives. They’re just “passionate.”

In the largest mainstream, corporate news organizations it's rare to find journalists who are pro-life, sit in a pew once a week, went to a state school, or go hunting. Those cultural & geographic experiences make a difference in the way a story is covered https://t.co/HN7CivMi0h — SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) March 30, 2019

Imagine the reaction if a Republican took a position opposed by 87 % of the country.

The press would immediately report how “extreme” that position & then pundits would spend a week reinforcing that extremist label with a variety of different modifiers. https://t.co/HN7CivMi0h — SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) March 30, 2019

Exactly. Journalists and pundits would never think to call third-trimester abortions “extreme” because Planned Parenthood has assured them that it’s all a question of women’s reproductive health. What they would consider extreme is Sen. Ben Sasse’s Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act — what kind of nut would introduce legislation like that? And yet there were crickets when Democrats voted en masse against it.

This is one of the best insights into the MSM I’ve read. — Sharon Casey (@SharonCasey6) March 30, 2019

Downright amazing how many former Catholics populated the newsrooms I’ve been in — Rick Sheridan (@RickSheridan) March 30, 2019

Angry, bitter former Catholics. — Mickey White (@BiasedGirl) March 30, 2019

So, they are my opposites. — Daniel Schneider (@Schneider_DC) March 30, 2019

MSM won't do it so GOP campaigners need to precede "candidate" with "extreme pro-abortion" whenever they talk about Beto and others in the race who share his stance. @parscale @GOPChairwoman @hughhewitt — Dirk Deardorff (@dwdeardorff) March 30, 2019

Liberals sanctify their candidates first and then rationalize the positions they take. Conservatives sanctify the positions their candidates take and then rationalize their behavior — Theodore (@RefDemo) March 30, 2019

None of those news rooms could ever understand me or how me and my family live. Even when I was in Iraq when CNN showed up we were surprised by them. It was like they were from another planet. One ever tried to get a prisoner to say we beat him when she knew it was a lie — Brian ????? (@NuseUSMC) March 30, 2019

"Journalists" are entirely out-of-touch with "flyover country." They couldn't possibly care less about the lives of people in this region. They couldn't possibly know less about them, either. — Jay "The Mud Sponge" Teigh (@TeighJay) March 30, 2019

Grateful for your coverage Selena – you do wonderful work. — Dave Cornelius (@DaveCornelius1) March 30, 2019

We’ve all seen it: Democrats are leaning more and more leftward and taking more “extreme” positions, like supporting infanticide, entertaining socialist garbage like the Green New Deal, eliminating the private health insurance industry, etc. It would be nice if the news media didn’t keep moving the bar so they always seem like the centrists.

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