Sarah Palin appears on Fox News to claim that Planned Parenthood targets minority women. Cannot explain why they would do that however.

Okay so Palin's anti-Planned Parenthood rants have apparently garnered enough attention that Fox News decided to have her back on the network after dropping her last month.

This time she was forced to appear opposite Bill O'Reilly who is not exactly her biggest supporter over on Fox.

She quickly reinforces the reason for his disdain.

O'Reilly starts off by simply asking Palin what her central post is with her Facebook post. Seems simple enough right?

Wrong.

 “This is kind of symbolic of our political correctness absurdity, and the absurdity of some person's priorities, when they are concerned more about a symbol that had represented the negatives many years ago, compared to today, thousands and thousands of babies, obviously, that we’ve seen in the news over and over with Planned Parenthood being butchered, and having their baby parts sold, that people, in some parts, are paying a whole lot more attention to the flag controversy than they are about what Planned Parenthood — their barbaric practices are.” 

At this point O'Reilly asks why she "zeroed in on black babies?"

"Because the Confederate flag, obviously, has been such a focal point for much of society right now, that that was an easy comparison. Again, this outrage over the flag, and then, especially in South Carolina, that was taken care of, they took down the flag. But where is more of the outcry about what is actually going on with innocent human life, and how can civilized society even accept what’s going on?” 

Here Billo interrupts Palin and asserts that the story of Cecil the lion is garnering more outrage than than the Right's trumped up lies about Planned Parenthood.

Once gain O'Reilly tries to get Palin to explain where she got her 90,000 black babies killed figure and why she thinks Planned Parenthood is targeting minorities, and asks her if she thinks it might be due to poverty.

Palin does not recognize a lifeline when it is thrown to her however.  

“No I do not. Planned Parenthood is in the business of finding targets. So, they may attract those who would be, perhaps disadvantaged in some ways, and be made to believe that abortion is their only option. That is why, Bill, 80% of Planned Parenthood shops are set up in minority neighborhoods. It’s tragic that they would make anybody, a minority even, feel that they’re not capable enough, and they’re not able, and supported enough to go through…"

Here O'Reilly tries to help Palin again with clarification, but she is having none of it.

"I'm going to finish my point....that they can go through 40 weeks of a pregnancy in order to give their child life, that it is not impossible. It’s less than ideal in many circumstances, but it’s not impossible, to carry that baby, give it life, and then you’re still going to school, you’re still working, you’re still raising other children. For them to make the people feel — women feel that they’re not capable of doing that, is absolutely atrocious.” 

Again O'reilly attempts to pin Palin down on why she thinks Planned Parenthood is "targeting" minority women. Clearly he is trying to get her back to her Facebook talking points about Margaret Sanger and her assertion that Planned Parenthood is engaged in some sort ethnic cleansing under the guise of providing women's health services.

But sine Palin didn't actually write that she cannot remember what the post says.

“As I said they are in there trying to make these minority women fill that they’re not capable of giving their child life. And then allowing the spirit of adoption or good foster care or more support.” 

Again O'Reilly interrupts her and keeps asking her why they would do that?

“They’re doing that because they have too many people deceived. They have leaders in some of these communities, including our president, who would say, 'God bless you, Planned Parenthood. I’m there fighting with you,’ people deceived to make it sound like, oh, my goodness, an innocent human life is disposable.” 

Again O'Reilly says he just wants to know if Palin believes that Planned Parenthood has "a motivation to target  minority women? (Listen to the exasperation in his voice at this point.)

“Planned Parenthood is a bogus business. They’re in it to make money. They are in it to profit, and they have profit. And that’s why our tax dollars should not go to Planned Parenthood. They’re not needed, and they’re not — it’s certainly not ethical for our tax dollars to go there.”

And that is where the interview ends.

So here let me answer the question that Palin struggled so hard not to answer.

The reason that so many Planned Parenthood clinics are in less affluent neighborhoods is because they offer health care services that poor women cannot typically afford to pay for while wealthier women can and do.

And Planned Parenthood does NOT "target" minority women, they offer information on reproduction, birth control products, testing for STD's, cancer screenings, and even tubal ligations and vasectomies. And they offer those services to ALL ethnicities who walk through their doors.

I think this interview made it clear why Palin no longer has a contract with Fox News as a paid contributor.

Here she was brought on to discuss a Facebook post that she supposedly wrote, and she could not even do that adequately.

(By the way there is now another ghostwritten post on her Facebook page where O'Reilly's question about why Planned Parenthood "targets" minorities is finally answered. And yes it is as incredibly hateful and completely false as you would expect it to be.)