A method you’ll be able to exhibit how the liberal networks run on dunking Republicans is how they cowl congressional hearings. For weeks, Home Oversight Committee chair James Comer has been probing how the Biden White Home workers lined up former President Joe Biden’s psychological decline, and all of the liberal TV networks can’t find it.
However on Tuesday, Senate Democrats had been throwing hardballs at Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi, and CNN and MSNBC had been overlaying it dwell, after which the night newscasts all ran tales. Republicans are accountable for Congress, and Democrats are nonetheless thought-about the extra newsworthy members.
NPR’s on-line headline for its night information report was “Democrats press Bondi over issues DOJ is being weaponized to focus on Trump’s foes.” PBS’s headline was related: “Bondi dodges Democrats’ questions on weaponizing DOJ in Senate listening to.”
Few issues are extra irritating to Republicans than the falsehood that Biden’s Justice Division was pristinely unbiased and wasn’t weaponized in opposition to Trump — and his staffers and supporters, to not point out in opposition to pro-lifers, conventional Catholics, and fogeys who disturb liberals at college board conferences.
On “NBC Nightly Information,” anchor Tom Llamas touted “that fiery listening to on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats grilling Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi over DOJ investigations and questions over the Epstein information.” Reporter Kelly O’Donnell spotlighted Democrats Dick Durbin and Richard Blumenthal. A minimum of, they included Bondi’s reply to Durbin about deploying the Nationwide Guard to Chicago: “They’re working to guard you. I want you liked Chicago as a lot as you hate President Trump.” However the Republican half of the listening to drew a couple of phrases on the finish.
A number of of those tales a minimum of talked about that Biden’s Justice Division was uncovered for analyzing the telephone data of eight Republican senators of their partisan investigation of Trump’s 2020 election denial.
The newspaper reporters couldn’t keep away from snarky editorializing. The front-page Washington Publish story, headlined “Combative Bondi Is Pressed On Her Document,” featured reporter Jeremy Roebuck describing the lawyer basic “lashing out” at Democrats, responding “with personalised, non sequitur assaults.”
The New York Occasions had the headline “By Attacking, Bondi Avoids Arduous Queries About Company.” Reporters Glenn Thrush and Devlin Barrett described Bondi’s strategy to Democrats as “easy and brutal: Don’t reply, simply assault.” As if the Democrat questions weren’t assaults?
The Occasions duo insisted Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have testified in an unprecedented trend, “characterised by a contemptuous refusal to even cursorily tackle inconvenient questions and the usage of ready assaults in opposition to Democrats to alter the topic and drown out criticism.”
May they be any extra apparent in sounding like press aides to the Democratic minority?
Tim Graham is director of media evaluation on the Media Analysis Heart and govt editor of the weblog NewsBusters.org.
