Submerged in all the coverage of the American military seizing Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife on Saturday was how well this dramatic mission went: the target was apprehended with zero American deaths. But the media spin was: this must be illegal, this must be headed for failure, this feels like American imperialism.
NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and evening news analyst and MRC Latino veteran Jorge Bonilla analyzed the breaking bias. Jorge offered his Miami radio show listeners an early analysis before the sun came up on Saturday. Within hours, it was all wrong. NBC's Hallie Jackson insisted the seizure of Maduro would ruin the attempt to prosecute him.
On the Sunday shows, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made quick work out of the network "moderator" attempts to inject themselves into the story. Margaret Brennan was in her own category on CBS, insisting that the strike force should have apprehended another five top Maduro aides.
The notion that Trump really had to get a vote in Congress is the silliest bias. Did Obama get a congressional vote before he sent a team to get Osama bin Laden? No. Sen. Tim Kaine spent the weekend calling Trump's action "illegal," but he gushed all over Obama. That's because our DNC media won't call out the hypocrisy of DNC spin right now.
We could compare this mission to Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, or Jimmy Carter’s “Desert One” failed hostage rescue mission in 1980. You know the DNC Media won’t do that.
They certainly won’t remind anyone – as the Trump White House did yesterday – that many prominent Democrats screamed at Trump to remove Maduro, and now they’ve flipped. The funniest line came from Sen. Chris Murphy, who argued in 2019 “If Trump cared about consistency, he would make the realist case for intervention in Venezuela.” The Democrats and their media enablers don’t care about consistency. They care about ruining Trump and the Republicans.
This is how the media prove that even in a dramatically successful military action, they are always negative about whatever Republican presidents try to do, just as they were when the U.S. seized Panamanian tyrant Manuel Noriega in 1989 under George H.W. Bush. CBS reporter Wyatt Andrews said Bush went from overly "timid" to looking "reckless."
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