Univision has been stone-silent on the controversy surrounding Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s privileged blowout in violation of San Francisco’s COVID orders. This marks a stark contrast with the network’s White House coverage, wherein correspondent Janet Rodríguez makes a point out of calling out the lack of masks and distancing.
Watch this compilation from the last five months, where Univision reporter Janet Rodriguez pushes the point over and over, only to disregard the “wear-a-mask-rule” when it came to her coverage of President Donald Trump's nomination acceptance speech at the Rose Garden:
JORGE RAMOS: As a matter of fact, correct me Janet, I don't remember seeing Donald Trump using a mask yet, right? ¿He's never used one?
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JANET RODRIGUEZ: Never. He said he was not going to use it. That it is voluntary and that he wouldn't lend himself for that… that he was not going to do that.
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The Mayo Clinic says that they previously told the Vice President and his team that the clinic guidelines were that they all had to wear the mask, but as we can see in the pictures, the Vice President was the only one who didn't do it.
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Texas Representative Mike Louie Gohmert is asymptomatic and has refused to wear a mask in Congress.
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Alabama beaches were packed this long weekend without social distancing or masks. This is how the first day of school went by at a Georgia high school, without social distancing nor masks anywhere to be seen.
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Last night at a meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, without social distancing or masks…
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President Trump and fellow Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, did not shake hands, but they didn’t ́ practice social distancing, and walked into the White House West Wing without masks.
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This afternoon in Michigan, President Trump said he would not grant the press the pleasure of seeing him with a mask.
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There are more than 1,500 persons gathered here today, without masks or social distancing.
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Last night, the President and First Lady greeted their followers without masks or social distancing.
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First Lady Melania Trump delivered the stellar speech of the night from the Rose Garden with guests without masks or social distancing.
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Without social distancing or masks.
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