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Leftist Media Spin and Censor News to Hide Biden's Illegal Creating a Media Culture in America Where Truth and Liberty Flourish Leftist Media Spin and Censor News to Hide Biden’s Illegal Immigrant Disaster at the Border The U.S. border with Mexico is being overrun by MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt claimed, “this is a problem that illegal immigrants thanks to the radical, nearly open the Biden administration inherited from the Trump borders policy the Biden administration has embraced. administration.” In March 2021, Customs and Border Patrol apprehended The Associated Press, in a memo to its reporters, said 172,000 illegal aliens at the border. For comparison, the “dire situation at the border” didn’t “fit the classic under President Trump in March 2020 there were 34,460 definition of a crisis…. Therefore, we should avoid, or apprehensions at the border. at least be highly cautious, The situation at the border about referring to the is a disaster. But the truth is present situation as a crisis not being told because the on our own, although we left-wing media and social may quote others using that media, are doing all they can language.” The bold type was to censor news about the in the original memo. border and spin it to protect NBC Nightly News anchor Biden. Lester Holt described the The Media Research “migrant surge” as an Center is documenting and “early test for the new exposing this leftist bias every In another omission, ABC, NBC, and CBS did not tell administration’s immigration day through its divisions, Americans in late March that the Biden administration policies.” in particular NewsBusters, had ordered busloads of illegal aliens to be dumped MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff MRCTV, and CNS News, as well in tiny border towns with no transportation and no laughably asserted that “it’s support to the local government. as through radio and television just not logistically possible” interviews of our experts. to manage the very real border crisis “after four years Let’s look at some of the deceit the leftist press are of the cruelty of the Trump administration.” He further peddling. said, “[A]nd I hear a lot of talk about, really disingenuous During the Trump years, the media relentlessly frankly, about a crisis, some kind of national security attacked the president’s border policy. They used words crisis at the border. That is not what is happening at all.” such as racist, cruel, dictatorial, Nazi, concentration Soboroff also claimed that people were illegally camps, kids in cages. But with Biden and the massive entering the U.S. because of “climate change, climate surge of illegals across the border, the press are bending variability.” over backwards to not even label it a “crisis.” CBS This Morning co-host Anthony Mason also took CNN’s Lucy Kafanov told viewers, “There’s no denying this tack. In an Apr. 8 segment on “why people make that this is an incredibly complex humanitarian issue the dangerous journey to the U.S. in the first place,” he that’s, of course, made even more difficult by the fact introduced a report “from Guatemala on how climate that we’re dealing with this in the midst of a pandemic.” change is forcing many into a difficult choice.” It’s not a “crisis,” it’s an “incredibly complex As for “national security” concerns, neither the humanitarian issue.” Continued on page 2 MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER • THE WATCHDOG VOLUME 28 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2021 Continued from page 1 at the border. NBC’s Today gave it 12 seconds of broadcast networks nor the Latino networks mentioned in coverage but CBS This Morning didn’t mention it. (The March that four people on the FBI’s terror watch list had poll also revealed that 57% disapproved of Biden’s been caught at the border by CBP. Three of the people handling of gun violence. However, this was only were from Yemen and one from Serbia. mentioned in an online ABC story, not on-air.) We learned about this because FNC’s White House In another omission, ABC, NBC, and CBS did not tell correspondent Kristin Fisher and the online outlet Axios Americans in late March that the Biden administration reported the story. ABC, CBS, NBC, Telemundo, and had ordered busloads of illegal aliens to be dumped in Univision censored it. tiny border towns with no transportation and no support In the keep-blaming-Trump category, NBC’s Chuck to the local government. Fox News’ Peter Doocey Todd — on his MSNBC MTP Daily show — tried to argue reported the story and he also disclosed, “In larger that Republicans had “sabotaged our immigration policy cities, more than 1,800 migrants with criminal charges and this is why we’re here.” This is “an impossible or convictions have been freed by judges, including 545 situation in some ways, because in many ways, the in Phoenix, 428 in Houston, and 195 in L.A.” asylum process was essentially destroyed by [Trump The nets are not reporting this information; they are official] Stephen Miller, they sort of blew it up, and so it protecting Biden. They are nothing more than mouth- is an extra mess,” he claimed. pieces for the administration, which is left-wing and not Republicans are “almost rooting for a problem so they interested in securing our borders. If the press do not tell can walk away from it,” Todd added. the truth, or if they hide the truth, then we do not have a That’s right, blame the GOP, or conservatives, when free country. The Republic cannot survive like this. something goes wrong on a Democratic president’s watch. The MRC fights every day to expose the leftist That’s how the leftist press operate. media and present the truth to the American people. MSNBC’s Garrett Haake played the same game on You can help us in this vital work by making a donation Andrea Mitchell Reports. After stating that Republicans to our non-profit organization. Use the reply card and planned to “talk about what they say is a crisis at the postage-paid envelope enclosed with this newsletter to border,” he then cited Democrats’ claims that “those send your most generous gift today. We look forward to same draconian policies put in place by the Trump hearing from you. administration essentially created a time bomb here.” Sincerely, On Mar. 29, ABC’s Good Morning America reported — in a swift 14 seconds — an ABC News poll showing that 57% of Americans disapproved of President Biden’s L. Brent Bozell III handling of the “situation with migrants” (not a crisis!) Founder and President 2 • THE WATCHDOG • MAY 2021 President Biden and Leftist Media Lie Incessantly About Georgia’s New Election Law Given the voting shenanigans and unconstitutional voting rules that were at play in some states in the 2020 elections, a few states, including Georgia, have made reforms and codified into law ways to make voting easier and more secure. They’ve also made it harder for people to cheat, which has sparked the leftist press, President Biden, and all their fellow-travelers to lie about Georgia’s reforms and repeatedly scream “Jim Crow.” Their blatant lies even compelled Major League Baseball to relocate the All-Star Game from Atlanta (majority black city) to Denver (majority white city), a pathetic decision that is hurting myriad black MSNBC’s Brian Williams, “The [Georgia] businesses in the Peach State. who lost his NBC Nightly bill severely curtails News anchor gig for years the ability to vote in Let’s look at some of the lies. of lying, told viewers Georgia, particularly the law was “voter After Georgia passed its new law, which is nearly for people of color.” suppression,” while guest identical to the voting laws in blue-states New York, Mark McKinnon huffed, “[If] it walks like suppression New Jersey, and Delaware, President Biden went and talks like suppression, it’s suppression.” Another on TV and said it was “Jim Crow on steroids, what guest, Baratunde Thurston, falsely claimed we they’re doing in Georgia.” Biden also lied about when are “watching voter suppression in real-time” and the polls close in Georgia and whether people can get that Georgia is “a fascist state.” water while waiting in line (they can). The left-wing New York Times lied: “The [Georgia] Even the liberal Washington Post “Fact-Checker” bill severely curtails the ability to vote in Georgia, gave Biden four Pinocchios for his misrepresentations. particularly for people of color.” On CNN, host Don Lemon hysterically NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers lectured that claimed, “There are more than 250 proposed bills and “this is the most ferocious attack on democracy since at least 43 states that are aimed at restricting access the era of Jim Crow…. They’re trying to steal the next to the ballot. It is election through voter suppression.” On ABC’s The being called the View, Joy Behar new Jim Crow.” Meyers lectured, “This falsely claimed, CNN even played is the most ferocious Republicans “have old footage attack on democracy nothing to offer from the 1940s since the era of Jim Crow Americans,” that’s South, showing “why they have to blacks and whites …. They’re trying to steal suppress the vote.” segregated. CNN’s Joe Johns ominously warned, “The the next election through These examples parallels with the [racist] past are inescapable.” voter suppression.” barely scratch the CNN’s Victor Blackwell ranted that Republicans surface of the countless lies, falsehoods, and spin the were pushing a “pandemic of apartheid” with the leftist press are spewing about the Georgia law. Read Georgia law.
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