On Sunday's State of the Union, CNN host Dana Bash pressured Tom Homan -- "as a border czar and as a human" -- how can you be comfortable with sending Haitians back to Haiti, when it's dangerous? Emotional appeals against most if not all deportations is what journalists do now. They can't admit the border czar might also have emotional appeals for getting dangerous people out of the country.
Journalists like Bash sound more like ACLU activists than journalists. Haitians don’t get Temporary Protective Status from the Media. It’s permanent protection. Senior research analyst Bill D'Agostino and media analyst (Latinx-pert?) Jorge Bonilla joined the show.
Mika Brzezinski won Worst media quote of the week on this line: "Are, again, we going after the worst of the worst, or are we just going after people to create a level of fear out there where laws can be broken, people can be detained for months, and children have to show up alone for the detention hearings? The list goes on as to how backwards, un-American, and sick this is.”
Speaking of Bash, media reporter Justin Baragona of Zeteo employed anonymous CNN sources to bash Dana Bash for not being “objective” on Israel, and on Piker. As in:
“It was really disappointing to see Dana and CNN playing into these characterizations of Hasan, who is not as controversial as they’ve made him out to be,” a CNN producer told me about Dana Bash's "bad-faith" campaign, which has seen her misconstrue Piker's comments."
Speaking of anonymous sources, Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen called for the “traitor” source who leaked classified information to the Post to be “prosecuted” after the paper published one of those anonymously sourced articles on warnings from top military leaders to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonged large-scale operations against Iran were becoming unsustainable. The Post reported that the warnings were contained in the classified August 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book. Thiessen compared his opposition as the same as his take on Wikileaks and Julian Assange and the Edward Snowden case.
Finally, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy admitted that she, like many others, may have been “too naive” about President Trump’s “motivations” in Venezuela, warning that only the implementation of free elections in the country would prove what the administration’s purposes were, beyond bringing oil resources under some control.
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