Telemundo News, in a report that downplayed his atrocious persecution of what reporter Cristina Londoño called the “so-called pro-lifers”, fawned over the selection of former congressman Xavier Becerra to head the Department of Health and Human Services.
The lengthy report lauded the nomination as one that “fills Latinos with hope because he is one of our own in a key position”, and described Becerra as “expected to be the number one advocate for the communities that need it most”- but concealed from viewers Becerra’s willingness to wield the powers of the state as a sword against pro-lifers.
Watch Telemundo News practically give Becerra the Sonia Sotomayor treatment:
Telemundo News -
12/7/2020 6:30:00 PM
JOSE DIAZ-BALART: Xavier Becerra's nomination as (HHS) Secretary in Joe Biden's upcoming administration fills Latinos with hope due to the arrival of one of our own to a key position, in the midst of one of the worst health crises in the history of this country. Cristina Londoño joins us from Washington. Cristina, (is this) an appointment that is both hopeful and surprising?
CRISTINA LONDOÑO: Of course, José, because Xavier Becerra was not notable for having experience in healthcare issues. He had stood out more for his defense of immigrants, minorities, and in criminal justice issues. But since replacing Kamala Harris as California's attorney general, he has led dozens of states in the fight against the Trump Administration to defend Obamacare. And now, during the pandemic, he is expected to be the number one advocate for the communities that need it the most.
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LONDOÑO: But not everyone is cheering for him. Becerra has been a defender of the right to abortion and the so-called pro-life groups say his appointment is an affront to morality.
Missing from this report – and all of the Telemundo, Univision, CNN en Español and Estrella TV reports monitored by MRC Latino on Monday, December 7, 2020, when Becerra's pick was announced – is any mention of his appalling record against defenders of life, including his malicious prosecution of The Center for Medical Progress and its founder David Daleiden, who filmed an undercover video series exposing Planned Parenthood’s (illegal) conspiracy to traffic in fetal body parts, including the performance of abortion procedures that would best preserve the body parts to be harvested and sold.
In addition, not a word was mentioned about Becerra's unsuccessful bid to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to violate their faith by paying for medical insurance that provides contraceptives and abortions, or about his involvement in Bill Clinton's infamous Pardongate, where he successfully sought to secure a presidential commutation for a drug trafficker friend -- and campaign donor -- in 1994.
This goes to show just how biased the Spanish-speaking media are when it comes to securing their audience, fed by a steady flow of immigrants into the country – this time by slobbering over an enemy of life and of the First Amendment, just because he, as Londoño said, is a “defender of immigrants”.
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Press on Expand to read the complete transcript of the above mentioned report as it aired on Monday, December 7, 2020, over Telemundo News.
JOSE DIAZ-BALART: Xavier Becerra's nomination as (HHS) Secretary in Joe Biden's upcoming administration fills Latinos with hope due to the arrival of one of our own to a key position, in the midst of one of the worst health crises in the history of this country. Cristina Londoño joins us from Washington. Cristina, (is this) an appointment that is both hopeful and surprising?
CRISTINA LONDOÑO: Of course, José, because Xavier Becerra was not notable for having experience in healthcare issues. He had stood out more for his defense of immigrants, minorities, and in criminal justice issues. But since replacing Kamala Harris as California's attorney general, he has led dozens of states in the fight against the Trump Administration to defend Obamacare. And now, during the pandemic, he is expected to be the number one advocate for the communities that need it the most.
XAVIER BECERRA: Anyone here an immigrant or child, or grandchild of an immigrant?
LONDOÑO: For Xavier Becerra, to be the son and grandson of immigrants has always been a source of pride and what keeps him going.
ROCÍO SAENZ, SEIU: He has been a tireless fighter for the defense of, and protection of our communities
LONDOÑO: Entering the worst stage of the pandemic, there is no more important job, nor is there a more qualified person for Secretary of Health, this congressman tells me.
RAUL DIAZ (D-CA): He will be a person at the center, not only the recovery of public health, but also of the economy.
LONDOÑO: Following his nomination, Becerra tweeted that in his new role he will work to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable and quality health care during this pandemic and beyond. His insistence on equal rights and opportunities, says Natalie Reyes, comes from when he was a child.
NATALIE REYES: When his dad was growing up, they wouldn't let him into many restaurants because they didn't want Mexicans, Latinos, Blacks or anything like that. So for him, that caused an intense trauma.
LONDOÑO: Years ago he told me that his story reminds him of who he works for.
BECERRA: Every time I know that we have people who understand what it's like to be a peasant, to have the first child attend college.
LONDOÑO: But not everyone is cheering for him. Becerra has been a defender of the right to abortion and the so-called pro-life groups say his appointment is an affront to morality. While for his college classmate, Arturo Vargas, of NALEO,
ARTURO VARGAS, NALEO: We are asking for at least five; we have two, we're three short.
LONDOÑO: He says there's room for more Hispanics in the Biden government. In Washington, Cristina Londoño, Telemundo News.
