News

Mar 10, 2009

A conservative media watchdog organization says the mainstream media is going out of its way to cover up the radical abortion record of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as she vies to become President Barack Obama's HHS secretary.

Dan Gainor is vice president for business and culture at the Culture and Media Institute (CMI). He notes that during the 2001 confirmation hearings for Tommy Thompson to become George W. Bush's Health and Human Services secretary, CBS anchor Dan Rather reminded Evening News viewers of Thompson's "hardline anti-abortion stand."

But since Barack Obama has tabbed Kathleen Sebelius to be his HHS secretary, Gainor says the mainstream media has gone out of its way to ignore the Kansas governor's extreme pro-abortion stance.

"Anti-abortion is news; pro-life is news -- [but] pro-choice or pro-murder is not news," says Gainor. "So you've got Sebelius [who's] got a real hardline pro-abortion stand, but nevertheless almost no coverage at all even acknowledging it's an issue. NBC's David Gregory came out and said Sebelius 'faces some difficulty because of those anti-abortion groups.'"

And the CMI spokesman said the mainstream media also is not reporting on Sebelius' relationship with the notorious Kansas abortionist George Tiller.

"If you didn't have Fox News, sometimes you wouldn't hear any of this stuff," states Gainor, noting that Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly pointed out that the governor has accepted campaign money from the abortionist in the past. "[Tiller's] been charged with a variety of crimes all around his abortion practice," he adds. "He aborts babies at any time as long as you pay him."

Sebelius, says Gainor, has a strong record as a pro-abortion radical, but one would never know that from the mainstream news media.