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Accuracy In Media
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September 19, 1994


FROM WASHINGTON 
THIS IS 
MEDIA MONITOR 
WITH 
REED IRVINE AND CLIFF KINCAID 
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HEADLINE: MORE GAFFES FROM GORE

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     We have commented previously on the media's double-standard
when it comes to vice presidents. They made former Vice President
Dan Quayle out to be a goofus who repeatedly stuck his foot in
his mouth. He recalls in his book, Standing Firm, that the media
hostility started immediately after he was nominated as the vice
presidential candidate and held a rally in Huntington, Indiana,
where the crowd cheered Quayle and booed the reporters. Quayle
said that after he left office, ABC's Brit Hume told him that
after that event he had heard some of his press colleagues make
ugly and personal attacks against both Quayle and George Bush.

     By contrast, Vice President Gore is given a free ride.
Consider how he was treated when he appeared on a Sunday "Meet
the Press" program, during which he tried to defend the Clinton
Administration's pro-abortion position at the United Nations
population conference. One of the maddening things about his
performance was his tendency to rattle on and on without
answering the question. But during the course of pontificating,
he went out of his way to say that the Administration condemns
the use of "coercive abortions." He said it was a slander of the
U.S. to say otherwise.

     Unfortunately, moderator Tim Russert and panelist David
Broder of the Washington Post were not prepared with the facts.
Russert did apologize when one of his guests, humorist Mark
Russell, made a few anti-Catholic Jokes. But Russert acted as an
apologist for Vice President Gore when he falled to challenge
Gore's claim the Administration opposes coercive abortions. The
truth is that the Clinton Administration has restored taxpayer
funding for the U.N. Population Fund, which financially supports
communist China's one-child per family policy. The U.S. now
provides the U.N. agency with $40 million a year.

     There is no dispute that this policy has been enforced with
coercion. Professor Julian Simon described the China policy this
way: "It includes forcing IUD's into the wombs of 100 million
women against their will; mandatory X-rays every three months to
insure that the IUD's have not been removed, causing who knows
what genetic damage; coercion to abort if women get pregnant
anyway, and economic punishment if couples evade the
abortionist."

     The situation is actually much worse than that. The New York
Times recently reported that China's one-child per family policy
means that parents want a boy to carry on the family name,
resulting in widespread abortions of female fetuses and even the
murder of young girls. As a result, the Times said there is a
severe shortage of young women in china.

     Vice President Gore was permitted to get by with a real
whooper when he said the U.S. had no involvement at all in any
coercive policies. Gore should have been asked to explain why our
tax dollars are going into the China program.