Nets Panic Over Le Pen: ‘Far Right,’ ‘Xenophobic’ ‘Racist’

Scott Whitlock | April 24, 2017
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[See NewsBusters for more.] The networks and cable channels on Sunday and Monday went into full panic over anti-immigration candidate Marine Le Pen advancing to the final round of France’s presidential elections. Some of the labels spewed by journalists include: “Far-right,” “xenophobic,” “racist.” But the one description that came, over and over, on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and MSNBC, is “far-right,” “far-right,” “far-right,” “far-right” and, also, “far-right.” On NBC’s Today, Richard Engel sneered, “From the far-right, anti-immigration, she's considered xenophobic, many have accused her of being racistly nationalistic.” In another segment, Engel underlined that Le Pen is “from the far right” and has “taken a page from the strategy book of Donald Trump.”

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