The immigration fight is just beginning, and the media are going to lose
by Eddie Scarry
| June 21, 2018 12:00 AM
Now that people in the news media are literally crying on TV, it’s time to watch public opinion once again drift into President Trump’s favor.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow looked like she might throw up from overexertion Tuesday night as she tried to force out a tear while reading a report on illegal immigrants at the border separated from the children they brought along (sometimes they’re parents, sometimes they’re paid smugglers).
Her daytime anchor colleague Stephanie Ruhle choked up earlier in the day talking on air about the same thing. So that there was no confusion about her compassion, she wore a subtle pin on her top that said “LOVE.â€
The issue (tens of thousands of foreigners overwhelming the southern border) has never not been a “crisis,†and yet it wasn’t described by the media as such until Trump got in office and began enforcing laws against slipping into the country unnoticed and unvetted. (Their children cannot join them in jail, where everyone must go after being charged with a crime, but you rarely see that spelled out in news reports.)
And as with every other cultural issue of the last three years, reporters and liberal commentators have taken the losing route of throwing themselves all in on the wrong side.
It’s hysterical.
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