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The liberal media’s shrill condemnation of President Trump’s zero-tolerance border enforcement policy reached a fevered pitch on Monday as the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) dedicated massive amounts of time to hyperbolic assertions about the issue. The coverage from NBC Nightly News was arguably out of control seeing as anchor Lester Host seriously asked a Border Patrol agent if he understood he was the bad guy.
Holt’s ridiculously leading question came during NBC’s eight-minute and nine seconds long marathon of reports dedicated to the President’s immigration policies. “[Do] you feel like the bad guy in this to some extent? I mean, you are the instrument of a policy that is obviously very controversial right now,” Holt lectured to him. The way the question was asked was meant to convey how they planned to paint the Border Patrol.
“I feel that the option of not doing anything is going to worsen the situation. So I think we have to work with what we have right now and hopefully get the immigration laws redone,” Manuel Padilla Jr., chief of the Rio Grande Valley Sector of Customs and Border Protection expertly countered.
The melodramatic language was flying from the very start of the show. NBC was broadcasting from McAllen, Texas, a southern border town, or as Holt called it: “[T]he intersection where rigid government policy and human compassion collide with the children of migrants at the center.”
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