On Wednesday afternoon, the White House called a last-minute press briefing featuring “a special guest,” which turned out to be Patty Morin, the mother of Marylander Rachel Morin, who was raped and murdered in 2023 by an illegal immigrant. Patty spoke in graphic detail about Rachel’s murder to a mostly liberal press corps that were left stone-cold silent.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins was the only reporter to speak up aside from the perfunctory condolences of “sorry for your loss”:
But hours later on her own show The Source, Collins never paid tribute to Rachel or Patty Morin. The former conservative reporter never even brought up the surprise briefing by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Collins further showed her priorities (or at least what the CNN borg wants talked about) with over 18 minutes (18:34) lamenting the plight of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal immigrant deported to an El Salvadoran jail the liberal media have affectionately called a “Maryland man” or “Maryland father and husband.”
Incredibly, Collins did show a clip of Leavitt, but not only was it about Garcia, it was from nearly a month ago on March 19.
Leavitt’s Wednesday briefing only fetched two allusions on CNN’s primetime programming.
First, CNN Thunderdome (aka CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip) played a snippet of her correctly laying out whom the left seems to care about most:
I think it's atrocious that you have Democrats in Congress on Capitol Hill who swear an oath to protect their constituents and to serve them in Washington, D.C., spending more time defending illegal immigrant gang members than their own constituents and law-abiding American citizens.
In the next hour, Laura Coates Live had two Leavitt soundbites laying out the facts about Garcia not being the model citizen the left has heralded him as:
When Kilmar Abrego Garcia was originally arrested, he was wearing a sweatshirt with rolls of money covering the ears, mouth, and eyes of presidents on various currency denominations. This is a known MS-13 gang symbol of hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. Abrego Garcia was also arrested with two other well-known members of the vicious MS-13 gang.
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The court ordered that the respondent committed the following acts of abuse: Once in May of 2021, assault in any degree. And on May 4th of 2021, he punched and scratched his wife, ripped off her shirt, and grabbed and bruised her. This is from a court in Maryland.
Rachel Morin left behind five children and now a grandchild. Unfortunately, it sure seemed as though Patty discussing Rachel’s violent murder wasn’t even enough for Collins to feel like Rachel was worth mentioning on her show as it would have taken precious seconds away from the liberal media’s real priority: defending illegal immigrants.
