Category Archives: Fail!

Trump repeated a right-wing media abortion talking point at the UN General Assembly | Media Matters for America – Liar in Chief! 

many times right-wing media and Trump attempt to claim otherwise. In reality, later abortions are those that happen after 20 weeks, and they are performed for many reasons including medical necessity or barriers to abortion access. As Dr. Kristyn Brandi explained to Vox, “Patients do not request abortion when they are in labor and doctors do not provide it.” She also noted that abortions that take place later in pregnancy make up “about 1 percent of all abortion care,” and that patients seek this care due to “some type of medical complication or their fetus was diagnosed with some type of genetic abnormality that makes their quality of life after they deliver really poor.” This isn’t the first time Trump has sourced his anti-abortion talking points from right-wing media. During his 2019 State of the Union Address, Trump repeated sensationalized misinformation about abortion measures in New York and Virginia, alleging that Democrats, “would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth.” Trump reiterated this talking point at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), declaring doctors “will execute the baby after birth.” Trump’s use of right-

Source: Trump repeated a right-wing media abortion talking point at the UN General Assembly | Media Matters for America

He, the People: The Inverse Correlation of Power and Civility in Britain – SPIEGEL ONLINE

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is abandoning all inhibitions in the battle for Brexit. His hostile and antagonistic rhetoric dismays civil Britons, but provides catnip for those eager to leave the EU. Many fear he has opened a Pandora’s box.
— Read on m.spiegel.de/international/europe/he-the-people-the-inverse-correlation-of-power-and-civility-in-britain-a-1289009.html

Trump scandal: Ukraine fears it could become Russia of 2020 election | US news | The Guardian

Chris Murphy, a member of the US Senate foreign relations committee, who described both Zelenskiy and his administration in recent meetings as “confused” about “the nature of these demands they were getting from the Trump administration … and that they worry that the aid that was being cut off to Ukraine by the president was a consequence for their unwillingness, at the time, to investigate the Bidens”.

Source: Trump scandal: Ukraine fears it could become Russia of 2020 election | US news | The Guardian

The Christian converts who are setting fire to sacred Aboriginal objects – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Christian converts who are setting fire to sacred Aboriginal objects – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
— Read on mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/the-christian-converts-who-are-setting-fire-to-sacred-aboriginal/11527402