More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
On the Monday edition of his MSNBC show, Jose Diaz-Balart rolled out the red carpet for liberal activists in favor of amnesty by broadcasting from the National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) conference in Los Angeles. This included inviting a illegal immigrant activist to promote her agenda and pushing another guest to blame House Republicans for the lack of immigration reform. Oh, and he failed to mention that the NCLR was giving him an award at the conference’s closing gala.
Towards of a second segment on immigration (more on the first later), he was congratulated by NCLR’s Clarissa Martinez de Castro for something neither Diaz-Balart nor his guests mentioned. What was the “congratulations” for? Well, turns out, the congratulations was for the NCLR selecting him to receive the Ruben Salazar Award for Communication, which is given “each year to an outstanding communications professional dedicated to portraying news relevant to US Hispanics.” With this being the only mentioning of it on his show (and a vague on at that), talk about a major conflict of interest.