This week’s Liberal Media Scream features a bizarre line of thinking about the historic border crisis from ABC’s Martha Raddatz, a trusted media voice who wants to shift the blame to Republicans.
Hosting Sunday’s This Week, Raddatz suggested that since President Joe Biden never explicitly said that the border is open, then he’s not to blame for the crisis despite months of signaling that the former Trump administration’s border closings were being lifted.
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Interviewing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Raddatz said: “I don’t think I’ve ever heard President Biden say, ‘We have an open border, come on over,’ but people I have heard say it are you, are former President Trump, are [Florida Gov.] Ron DeSantis. That message reverberates in Mexico and beyond.”
She doubled down on the impact of Republicans acknowledging the reality of the open border: “Smugglers use all those kinds of statements.”
From Sunday’s This Week:
RADDATZ: You talk about the border wall, you talk about open borders, I don’t think I’ve ever heard President Biden say, ‘We have an open border, come on over.’ But people I have heard say it are you, are former President Trump, are Ron DeSantis, that message reverberates in Mexico and beyond. So they do get the message that it is an open border and smugglers use all those kinds of statements.
ABBOTT: It was known from the time that Joe Biden got elected that Joe Biden supported open borders. It is known by the cartels, who have sophisticated information, whether or not the Biden administration is going to enforce the immigration laws or not is known across the world but, most importantly, known among the cartels.
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RADDATZ: And how do you play into that? What can you do better?
ABBOTT: So we have every level of government doing everything we can to prevent people from coming into the country illegally or repelling them or arresting them and putting them behind bars.
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “How ludicrous a line of reasoning. President Biden’s open border policies speak louder than any words he may not have explicitly said. And since when does denouncing a policy mean you are advocating for that reality? By that reasoning, journalists like Raddatz were promoting Trump policies every time they denounced them.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
