When it came to immigration, President Biden’s left flank was completely covered by the broadcast networks that brushed the worst-than-ever border crisis under the rug. But as new Fox News polling showed on Wednesday, Biden’s weak handling of the crisis was making an edge rush right and breaking through the narrative. All of this came as ABC, CBS, and NBC skipped new reporting on how Border Patrol had captured 10 convicted sex offenders attempting to cross the border.
Instead of reporting on the border security crisis, all three of the network evening newscasts were fretting about people flying, traveling, and gathering over the Memorial Day weekend with the pandemic.
But for Fox News, journalist Adam Shaw reported: “Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Sector in Texas arrested 10 convicted sex offenders in a single week as they tried to get into the U.S. illegally -- the latest batch of criminals nabbed by agents at the border.”
Adding: “The convictions of those apprehended include forcible sexual assault, sexual assault of a child under 14, sexual conduct with a person under 13, statutory rape, second-degree sexual assault of a child, and lewd and lascivious acts with a child.”
And on Fox News Channel’s Special Report, anchor Bret Baier had some new poll numbers that showed how the liberal media’s defensive schemes couldn’t stop the American people from learning the truth:
64 percent like what the President’s doing with the pandemic but when it comes to the environment, healthcare, economy, race relations, all around the 50 percent mark. Foreign policy just 43 percent approval. Border Security’s at 40 percent. Immigration 38 percent approval.
Baier also noted that the poll, which had a margin of error of three percent, had a plurality of respondents (46%) saying Biden was being too liberal (40% about right and 10% too conservative).
And during the panel discussion, Baier called out the media’s inept cover-up of the border crisis. “It's interesting to see immigration numbers, border security numbers considering the fact that very few places are really covering the border like we do. Like a few other places do,” he said.
Noting: “It doesn't break through in the day-to-day mainstream media stories. And, yet, it is seeing those numbers drop like a rock.”
Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway agreed: “Right, I think maybe the reality of the situation breaks through even though the media coverage is so sycophantic particular and supportive of President Biden.”
Hemingway honed in on the “uptick in people saying is he too liberal” and chided how the liberal media spent a lot of the 2020 election claiming Biden was a “moderate.”
“The fact that he can't build together a compromise shows that he’s not governing as a moderate or centrist, but as a far-left person who’s beholden to the far left of his party. And you see that in how he actually handles the border situation, which is not pleasing to a lot of people,” she said.
The network blackout of the 10 sex offenders captured at the border was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from WeatherTech on ABC, Amazon on CBS and NBC. Their contact information is linked so you can tell them about the biased news they fund.
The transcript isbelow, click "expand" to read:
Fox News Channel’s Special Report
May 26, 2021
6:21:06 p.m. EasternBRET BAIER: New Fox polls: President Biden is getting high marks on handling the coronavirus but poor grades on immigration, border security, and foreign policy in these latest polls.
64 percent like what the President’s doing with the pandemic but when it comes to the environment, healthcare, economy, race relations, all around the 50 percent mark. Foreign policy just 43 percent approval. Border Security’s at 40 percent. Immigration 38 percent approval.
Just more than half of those responding are optimistic about the U.S. economy. Almost half are not. That's actually a big decrease in confidence from two years ago.
And about half of those surveyed (47%), feel the Biden administration is spending too much money 33 percent say it's just about right. 17 percent believe the President is not spending enough.
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6:51:38 p.m. Eastern
BAIER: You know, Mollie, it's interesting to see immigration numbers, border security numbers considering the fact that very few places are really covering the border like we do. Like a few other places do. It doesn't break through in the day-to-day mainstream media stories. And, yet, it is seeing those numbers drop like a rock.
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Right, I think maybe the reality of the situation breaks through even though the media coverage is so sycophantic particular and supportive of President Biden. I tend not to put too much in polls having lived through 2016 and 2020.
BAIER: [Laughter] Fair point.
HEMINGWAY: Seeing how off they were. But I thought it was interesting that you are seeing an uptick in people saying is he too liberal. And I do think that the 2020 campaign we were told that Joe Biden would be very moderate and that he did his inauguration he wanted to be a unifier. And then you look at these policies and if that were true it would be very easy to have unifying policies.
You look at the infrastructure. There’s really not an issue on which there is so much consensus the need for infrastructure. You have a whole host of Republican senators who are more than happy to work with President Biden, and I'm not just talking about Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski or Mitt Romney but many others as well.
The fact that he can't build together a compromise shows that he’s not governing as a moderate or centrist, but as a far-left person who’s beholden to the far left of his party. And you see that in how he actually handles the border situation, which is not pleasing to a lot of people.
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