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2016 Postmortem

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts) Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:03 PM Oct 2012

Fox News Completely Ignores Senate Candidate’s Claim That Rape Pregnancy Is A ‘Gift From God’

Fox News Completely Ignores Senate Candidate’s Claim That Rape Pregnancy Is A ‘Gift From God’

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As of 1:30 pm, Fox News had not mentioned Richard Mourdock or the word “rape” in connection to Mourdock even once. In comparison, other cable networks are covering Mourdock and the fallout from his comments exhaustively. MSNBC mentioned “rape” in 15 segments about Mourdock, while CNN mentioned it 22 times.