I happened to be watching CNN when they showed the clip of Schumer, Loc. He was standing at the podium waving in a group of people obviously chosen for their ethnicity, making sure he could crowd in as many as possible. I couldn't help thinking what a great example he was of an opportunistic politician taking advantage of the situation for his own ends.......and that was before he started with the fake tears - when he did that, I almost spewed my coffee. Reading this today surprises me not and just goes to show my first impression was correct.
well progs?
57 Times More Coverage of Trump’s Temporary Ban Than Obama Ending Cuban Refugee Program
On January 30, the first weekday morning after President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order which temporarily banned immigration from several Middle East countries, the networks devoted 64 minutes, 8 seconds of coverage to this topic.
However, on January 12, then-President Obama ordered the ending of America’s longstanding “wet foot, dry foot” policy, which had allowed Cuban refugees entrance to the United States. But the broadcast networks were largely silent. Between them, ABC, CBS and NBC only spent
68 seconds during their news coverage the following morning – nearly 57 times the coverage from Trump’s policy change than Obama’s.
[...]
But this wasn’t the only instance of the networks ignoring one of President Obama’s bans on refugees. It wasn't until 2013 that
ABC News reported that "State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011," after the discovery that two al-Qaeda operatives had used the program to enter the U.S. and move to Bowling Green, Kentucky.
The story was featured prominently on the November 20, 2013 editions of ABC's
World News Tonight (3 minutes, 25 seconds),
Good Morning America (two segments totaling 3 minutes, 34 seconds), and a 10 minute, 19 second feature report on
Nightline. Most of ABC's coverage was about the deficiencies in the refugee vetting that permitted the terrorists to infiltrate the U.S., with only a couple of sentences spent on the six-month moratorium.
But CBS and NBC never followed up on the story, and ABC dropped its coverage after that single day of attention.
57 Times More Coverage of Trump
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