Deroy Murdock It still is stunning to watch someone prominent and powerful flat-out lie on TV.
"Like an Olympic gymnast’s perfect dismount from the parallel bars, it leaves you breathless.
"Responding to the Supreme Court’s
Hobby Lobby decision on Monday, Hillary Clinton
told the Aspen Institute’s Walter Isaacson: “It’s very troubling that a sales clerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception, which is pretty expensive, is not going to get that service through her employer’s health-care plan because her employer doesn’t think she should be using contraception.”
"Clinton did not daintily spin, dissemble, or mislead. She told a big, fat, shining lie.
"It is holistically false for Clinton to claim that Hobby Lobby “doesn’t think she [the sales clerk] should be using contraception.”
"As I
documented Monday, Hobby Lobby’s health plan includes 16 different categories of birth control. They are available on a non-co-pay basis, so employees get them at no out-of-pocket cost. The Food and Drug Administration’s official
list of approved contraceptives includes small drawings for each of 20 types of birth control. I assembled these sketches into two graphic illustrations. The first shows the contraceptive cornucopia available to Hobby Lobby’s workers, courtesy of the alleged barbarians who own that company."
"Hobby Lobby offers its health-insured employees these 16 different forms of FDA-approved birth-control, for free. Graphic illustrations compiled by Deroy Murdock.
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"Hobby Lobby disapproves of these four abortifacients, but employees are free to buy them with their own money."
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"Disseminating the simple black-and-white images above may help steer the Hobby Lobby debate back to something resembling the truth. The volcano of lies that erupted on Monday cannot go dormant soon enough."
— Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.
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