After Months of Denying, Cable Journalists Admit ‘Crisis’ at Border
By Bill D'Agostino | April 2, 2019 10:17 AM EDT
Talking heads on liberal cable news are finally warming to calling the situation on the U.S.- Mexico border a crisis, at least since former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson blessed that term on the March 29 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe. But some of us are old enough to remember a time – barely two months ago – when cable hosts were screaming to high heaven that there was no such border crisis.
On the night of President Trump’s January 8 Oval Office address about border security, for example, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace insisted: “The big scam of the whole address was that there’s a crisis; there’s not a crisis.â€
For those who may have forgotten, here's a look at the media spin that prevailed as recently as mid-February:
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