February is Black History Month, so it shouldn't be considered unreasonable for one to expect to see media coverage of President Trump's White House event, which took place on Wednesday, in recognition of the contributions of Black Americans.
But as we've seen since 2017, the elitist media is allergic to official White House events under Trump, which are automatically dismissed as sickening. The Wednesday evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS all skipped it. PBS preferred to spend eight mournful minutes on ICE-related trauma: "Minnesota schools and students struggle with fallout of immigration crackdown."
Fox News's Special Report With Bret Baier did mention the White House event, and Laura Ingraham made it the focus of her opening 'Angle' on Fox's The Ingraham Angle.
Baier led off his show by tossing to Senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy, who first provided updates on the U.S. talks with Iran, the President's upcoming State of The Union Address, and the massive sewage spill in the Potomac, before Baier asked him about the White House event.
BAIER:.. Peter, tell us about today's event at the White House celebrating Black History Month, people praising the President and his policies.
DOOCY: Yeah, in some way a lot of these guests used the time at the microphone to really defend President Trump against months or years' worth of accusations that some of the things he says are racist.
Black attendees praising Trump? Lack of coverage mystery solved? Doocy then included a short montage of some of the speakers praising Trump including Forlesia Cook, a grandmother whose grandson was murdered in Washington DC: "I don't want to hear nothing you got to say about that racist stuff. Don't be looking at me on the news hating on me because I am standing up for somebody. Let off the man's back. Let him do his job."
DOOCY: President Trump complained on Truth Social yesterday that he is falsely and consistently called a racist. Many of his guests today really disagree with that.
This is what Laura Ingraham picked up on as she discussed the White House event, starting with more clips. First up was Alice Marie Johnson, White House Pardon Czar.
JOHNSON: President Donald Trump brought me from the prison pit to the White House... Only in America could there be a story like my story and President Trump is the only president who would have had the courage, the courage to bring someone like me, someone who received a second chance, but who knows more than someone who has sit among the captives than someone who has been in captivity themselves.
And then Ingraham hit the nail on the head.
INGRAHAM:.. Alice Johnson one of the formerly incarcerated freed under President Trump's First Step Act was one of several invited guests whose words the hate Trump media type prefer to ignore.
She played a few more Black speakers praising Trump and then asked, "How do the Democrats answer this? Who knows? Because all they have is hate." Next came a brief montage of that hate.
Senator Elizabeth Warren: He is a thin-skinned racist bully.
Hillary Clinton: He has been racist.
Joe Biden: There's never been a president in American history who has been so openly racist.
Rep. Ilhan Omar: The President oftentimes resorts to very bigoted, xenophobia, islamophobia, racist rhetoric.
Then Ingraham asked the key question, before playing a clip from Brianna Keilar on CNN News Central.
INGRAHAM: No one really believes that. I don't think even most of those people believe what they were saying. And, as voice after voice was heard today at the White House, and after President Trump praised the civil rights work of the late Jesse Jackson, what does the media say to this?
KEILAR: We are listening to Ben Carson there at the White House during Black History Month as the President had some very warm words for Jesse Jackson. We are going to get in a quick break and we'll be right back.
Just as Ingraham had it right on why most of the leftist media would ignore this event, she also had this observation on the brief, in and out coverage of the event, by a competing cable news network, "Oh my G-d. Look, I don't want to be too negative. Let's look at the bright side, at least CNN covered some of the event at the White House today, progress."
Airing a few minutes of a live White House event should be standard fare for a 24/7 news channel, not "progress." But it beat the broadcast networks.
