Eclectablog owner and publisher Chris Savage posted a terrific essay noting the hypocrisy of House Rep. Tim Walberg (Republican from MI’s 7th congressional district pointing out to Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards that he was wearing a “pink tie” to the hearing to support women’s issues.
Savage’s post notes that “Indeed, Walberg was wearing a pink tie. But his so-called “solidarity with women’s health issues” ended there. As I noted yesterday, Walberg then proceeded to tell lies about Planned Parenthood that have largely gone unanswered. Not long prior to Tuesday’s hearing, Walberg said in a floor speech, “No matter what party you belong to, we should all agree that taxpayer dollars should not be used for harvesting baby parts for profit.” This, of course, is an insanely obvious lie. Then, during the hearing, he referred to a report commissioned by Planned Parenthood to investigate the veracity of recently-released and highly-edited video meant to give people the impression that Planned Parenthood profits from the sale of fetal tissue. In his comments, he said, “The conclusion of that report says the analysis did not reveal widespread evidence of ‘substantive video manipulation’ and it shows ‘no evidence of audio manipulation.’” This, too, was a provably false statement and you need go no further than the Executive Summary of the report for that proof.”
http://www.eclectablog.com/2015/10/disgusting-republican-hypocrisy-alert-tim-walberg-im-wearing-a-pink-tie-in-solidarity-with-womens-health-issues-2.html