Retired Senator Jesse Helms compares abortion to the 9/11 terrorist strikes, in a memoir published this week.
In his memoir, Here's Where I Stand, the former North Carolina Republican writes that when 3,000 people died on Sept. 11, ''the American people responded with shock, sadness, and a deep and righteous anger. ... Yet let us not forget that every passing day in our country, more than three thousand innocent Americans are killed" through abortion.
Brings a whole new meaning to the "war on terror," doesn't it?
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While noting that Helms is "blunt," the mainstream media essentially gave Helms a free pass on this and other comments from the book.
A look at coverage of the book's publication, from such publications as the Washington Post and Boston Globe, ran the hyperbolic comments as-is. Hardly the sort of thing you'd expect from what conservatives call the "liberal media." In fact, those publications re-printed an Associated Press report from a Raleigh, N.C.-based reporter.
But what about the New York Times, a favorite target of conservatives? An Aug. 30 article fails to mention the abortion comparison at all.
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This article first appeared at Journalists Against Bush's B.S.
Article comments
1 - John Bambenek
Yeah! How dare he compare 9/11 to abortion. 9/11 only killed about 3000 people.
2 - Courtney
WTF, like yeah 9/11 killed 3000 or whatever people, but dontcha understand that abortion kills millions of babies per year? its make sence to compare it to 9/11.. its pretty much the same thing
3 - Quinn
They didn't mention the comment because its so obviously right on. More babies are aborted in the USA each day over the course of a year then the number that died on 9/11.
Had they reported Helms statement they would have shared it with others who would immediately agree with Helms.