Three weeks after Charlie Kirk's assassination, the media are back to promoting full-throated Nazi smears, especially denouncing ICE agents as Trump's "Gestapo." The ICE raid on a Chicago apartment complex spurred a new round of wild-eyed statements that ICE are Trump's Gestapo. Network hosts let it fester. "Fact checkers" will not get involved.
MRCTV Managing Editor Brittany Hughes and NewsBusters news analyst and Radio Libre talk show host Jorge Bonilla join the show to discuss all things immigration.
Jorge reported CBS Face The Nation host Margaret Brennan sat passively as Illinois Democrat Senator Tammy Duckworth repeated what is now known as the Zip-Tie Hoax: the debunked claim that children were zip-tied during ICE raids in Chicago. Additionally, Duckworth was allowed to incite further violence against ICE with her incendiary claim that they engage in “Gestapo tactics.”
On Saturday's The Weekend show, MSNBC hosts Jonathan Capehart and Jackie Alemany enabled the throwing around of more Nazi references as one guest excoriated ICE as "Trump's Gestapo," and another called it Trump's own "national police" that has no accountability.
It's Hamas who reveres the Nazis, but the media empathize with them all day long.
MSNBC host Ali Velshi suggested the Chicago raid -- with 37 arrests and no deaths -- was "one of the darkest days in modern American history.” So ICE is like al-Qaeda on 9/11, like Timothy McVeigh bombing the federal building in Oklahoma City? Chicago faces darker moments of death every weekend on their streets.
Plus: the liberal media celebrate the bravado of ICE-hating Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, recently named the half-time entertainer at Super Bowl 50 in February. Benito "Bad Bunny" Ocasio hosted Saturday Night Live and went into a Spanish riff about how the current administration can't erase the achievements of American Latinos. Then he joked that Americans have four months to learn Spanish if they want to understand his Super Bowl show.
The legacy Sunday shows appear to have taken a collective vow of omertà regarding coverage of what would have been treated as an immediate disqualifier had a Republican done something similar. The hosts of these shows shut out any discussion of Democrat Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones as he fantasized about murdering state House Speaker and Republican Todd Gilbert and his children in a series of nasty text messages.
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