The Washington Post is still a leftist rag. On Monday, the Style section front page carried an enormous photo with text over it: “Social media star Ms. Rachel visits Capitol Hill, armed with letters and drawings from children in ICE custody.” Below the fold was the headline: “A woman in pink. A plea for the children.”
Feature writer Caitlin Gibson's copy on the Style front-page was all propaganda against family detention of illegal aliens at a processing center in south Texas. She began:
Rachel Griffin Accurso — Ms. Rachel, to her millions of followers — made her first visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon, wearing a bubblegum-pink linen suit and wheeling a black suitcase filled with stapled packets of handwritten letters and drawings. They were the words and artwork of children, all of whom have been — or remain — in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the nation’s only family immigration detention center.
“I cry a lot,” read one letter from a 7-year-old boy held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. “I want to get out of here.” Among the illustrations were portraits of crying faces, families standing together behind bars and a red house that a 9-year-old child longed to return to. Accurso clutched one packet in her hand, ready to offer it to the first lawmaker she encountered.
Griffin was greeted by ICE-crushing Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), but the reporter tried to claim this was a “new foray,” and then acknowledged there’s been activism before:
It was a new foray into the political realm for the early-childhood educator, who became the reigning star of children’s media with her wildly popular educational videos on YouTube and Netflix. Through her adult-facing social media platforms, Accurso has also emerged as a powerful advocate for vulnerable young people around the world, making headlines — and sometimes drawing backlash — for speaking out on behalf of children in Gaza, Sudan and other humanitarian crisis zones.
Last summer, CNN/PBS host Christiane Amanpour was hailing Ms. Rachel as she accused Israel of "genocide" in Gaza. In fact, Caitlin Gibson and The Post published a previous puff piece on the Activist Kid-Vid Star as an activist last July.
Now, Gibson touted how Ms. Rachel just visited the Delaney Hall facility in New Jersey, and "sang a song written by the Peace Poets along with children detained at Dilley: “I’ll sing from here and you sing from there, together we’ll sing down the walls everywhere.”
The Post piece did include three perfunctory paragraphs of rebuttal from DHS and Core Civic, the firm running the Dilley facility. But everything else was pushing leftist activists and their Evil Trump Empire line:
This underscores the value of Accurso’s work and platform, said Elora Mukherjee, an attorney who represents numerous families detained at Dilley and serves as director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. With her vast audience, Accurso represents a different way to inform people, beyond the reach of mainstream media: “Overwhelmingly, the American public still does not realize that, as a nation, we are imprisoning babies, toddlers and children who have done nothing wrong,” she said. “Sustained attention on cruelty against children is critically important.”
The Post touted activist Faisal Al-Jaburi:
Culture often shifts before the law does, he said: “We will not see policy change until the public demands it. And that is what gives me hope when people like Ms. Rachel turn their spotlight onto a cause like this.”
That spotlight is turned on by The Washington Post and PBS and other publicity organs that don't want any deportations at any time, for any reason.
