PolitiFact nails Kamala Harris for blatantly lying about Kavanaugh’s birth control ‘dog whistle’

Remember, only dogs hear dog whistles.

Kamala Harris is still reaping backlash from telling a massive lie about SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

While Democrats like California Senator Harris turned the Kavanaugh hearings into an embarrassing circus for the purposes of auditioning as presidential candidates, many pulled despicable stunts for attention.

Harris came under heavy fire when she altered Judge Kavanaugh’s words to make it appear he had said something he didn’t.

“Kavanaugh chooses his words very carefully, and this is a dog whistle for going after birth control,” Harris tweeted with a strategically edited clip. As it turned out, it was Harris who chose Kavanaugh’s words “very carefully.”

As BPR covered last week, Harris tweeted a selectively edited video of the judge’s remarks, which exclude the words “they said” from his statement, creating the impression that the phrase “abortion-inducing drugs” reflected Kavanaugh’s own considered opinion, and not those of the Catholic priests challenging the contraception mandate.

Backlash against the tweet was swift and fierce:

While there were plenty of informed people willing to call out Harris for her deceptive lie, her liberal minions, unwilling to scratch just beneath the surface, were more than willing to take her tweet at face value.

But now, the fact-checking source Politifact as spoken. And there was nothing it could do to spin Harris’ distortion of the truth even it wanted to.

“We rate this statement False,” Politifact concluded of Harris’ tweet.

“Harris’ tweet takes Kavanaugh’s statement out of context,” Politifact’s assessment read. “Harris cut an important second out of the clip — the attribution. Kavanaugh said, ‘They said filling out the form would make them complicit in the provision of the abortion-inducing drugs that they were, as a religious matter, objecting to. ‘They’ refers to a Catholic nonprofit group, Priests for Life. Kavanaugh was answering a question from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, about a case in which he argued Priests for Life shouldn’t have to provide women with the contraceptive coverage mandated by the Affordable Care Act for religious reasons.”

DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW

Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!

Success! Thank you for donating. Please share BPR content to help combat the lies.

Comment

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.

BPR INSIDER COMMENTS

Scroll down for non-member comments or join our insider conversations by becoming a member. We'd love to have you!

Latest Articles