BROADCAST BIAS: Media's LA riot coverage relies on a sneaky trick to look less one-sided

Democrats and their publicity partners at the broadcast TV networks have often preached about how President Donald Trump s actions like his pardons are an affront to the rule of law in America But when it comes to Trump s attempt at mass deportations the media-Democrat alliance lines up fiercely against any attempt to remove immigrants who have ignored the rule of law Riots broke out on June after several immigration raids in the Los Angeles area by U S Immigrations and Custom Enforcement enraged the left as so-called peaceful protesters tried to block entrances and exits for the Edward R Roybal Federal Building downtown where detainees were being processed In a legal sense it is not merely a protest to obstruct law enforcement It s a crime It is not protest to throw bricks at ICE agents or police or set cars on fire But the broadcast coverage of this unrest sounded disturbingly like the excuse-making for the George Floyd riots of when violent mobs were described as a racial reckoning CNN MSNBC INSIST ANTI-ICE DEMONSTRATIONS HAVE BEEN MOSTLY PEACEFUL DESPITE WIDESPREAD UNRESTOnce again the TV networks used the mantra that the protests are mostly peaceful like it was a tiny sideshow and Trump calling out the National Guard to quell the violence was treated as a provocation that worsened the emergency The original radical idealism of these protests that ICE shouldn t be deporting anyone like deportations were tyrannical served as the rhetorical underpinning of the biased coverage Any idealism from the Republican side favoring that rule of law and for protecting law enforcement personnel from violent attacks was dismissed as Trumpian blather By Monday morning the configuration morning shows kicked into anti-Trump gear ABC Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos warned viewers that Trump s ordering in the National Guard is the first time since that a president s ordered troops in over the objections of the governor and California Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the action as inflammatory called on the administration to rescind it commented they were manufacturing a predicament LIBERAL MEDIA DOWNPLAYS LA RIOTS DISMISS VIOLENCE AS ISOLATED WHILE TOUTING 'PEACEFUL' ANTI-ICE PROTESTSWhen Democrats can t keep control of their cities pointing it out is manufacturing a predicament It s like Stephanopoulos never stopped being a Democrat press spokesman It s subtle wordplay but the networks have a sneaky habit of not putting the party label on Trump s Democrat opponents One might say their party should be obvious from their opposition but in a setting of violent action the avoidance of party labels was far too common especially at ABC On Wednesday night June s World News Tonight reporter Matt Gutman released in an emotional press conference mayors coming together against Trump no party labels needed Arturo Flores the mayor Huntington Park was described as a combat veteran appealing to the military Flores bizarrely argued about illegal immigrants These are Americans As a legal matter that s untrue but ABC put that concept on screen Agents Remember You Are Dealing With Americans That s just Personnel no party ID needed CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONFlores also lit into Trump as a dictator and a tyrant Nobody ever fact-checks politicians who call Trump a dictator Gutman then added Newsom attacking Trump for calling out the National Gard without the party label LA NEWS ANCHOR CONTENDS PEOPLE ARE HAVING 'FUN' WATCHING CARS BURN RIOTS 'RELATIVELY PEACEFUL'On Thursday night ABC evening anchor David Muir repeated the tactic Homeland Prevention Secretary Kristi Noem was abruptly interrupted at a press conference by California Senator Alex Padilla and he was forced to the ground and handcuffed This transparently partisan stunt was treated as deadly serious complete with a Padilla soundbite full of quavering moral outrage about how Latino farm hands and cooks are treated by the feds with no mention of party Late in that Thursday story ABC reporter Matt Rivers did highlight the party when Democratic Governors lectured House Republicans at a hearing about their laxity on illegal immigration New York Gov Kathy Hochul informed Viewers that Trump engaged in a flagrant abuse of power ABC did not show Minnesota Gov Tim Walz being pressed in that hearing about his smears in a latest commencement speech where he accused ICE agents of being Trump s modern-day Gestapo Nobody fact checks that and no Republican question or concern from that hearing was mentioned by ABC This is why Republicans and independent voters are shunning ABC CBS and NBC as talking-point assembly lines for the Democrats CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM TIM GRAHAM