NPR Frames McCarthy Border Trip as “Photo Op” After Praising Up Biden’s Staged Visit

The latest example of corrupt corporate media providing vastly different treatment for Republicans and Democrats in order to advance their agendas is the coverage of Kevin McCarthy’s trip to the border this past week.

On Thursday, NPR — which has a Histories Of Running PR campaigns Yet, Democrats still receive Contributors funding — published a clip from its “All Things Considered” Podcast with a headline questioning McCarthy’s visit to Mexico’s border. “nothing more than a photo op.”

“House Speaker Kevin McCarthy led a congressional delegation to southern Arizona today to address concerns along the U.S.-Mexico border. But critics say this visit is nothing more than a photo op,” podcast host Ailsa Chang said.

Noticeably, the headline for McCarthy’s border visit differs from the one NPR used last year to cover President Joe Biden’s first. Verifiable Visit to the southern border during his 50 years of public office.

“Biden visits U.S.-Mexico border for 1st time as president,” The January “All Things Considered” headline said.

The podcast host asked NPR International Correspondent Eyder Peralta questions about Biden’s trip to El Paso (Texas), and Peralta responded by using legacy media’s infamous “Republicans pounce!” This is to make it appear that the current border crisis is only a fabrication of outrage by GOP.

“Republicans have been criticizing the president for not visiting the border, and in their eyes, he was ignoring the humanitarian crisis there. So today he went there to tour some facilities and talk to some border agents, and he even took a tour of the border wall,” Peralta said. “The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, didn’t seem very happy about the visit.”

Peralta and the podcast host did not mention in the clip that immigration authorities had cleared many of the migrant camps in the areas where Biden would be traveling. As The Federalist’s Tristan Justice reportedSources of Customs and Border ProtectionDescription a ‘sanitized and orderly’ situation presented to the president, clouding the severity of the crisis.”

Biden’s open-border policy has seen illegal immigration increase along the U.S./Mexico border in the two years since his presidency. In fiscal 2022, there were 2.3 million illegal aliens apprehended Border Patrol officials estimated that 1.7 Million people were arrested in 2021. These numbers don’t include the Many thousands Of known “gotaways,” Due to a “lack of manpower.”

Instead of dwelling on the fact that Biden has exacerbated the disaster, consider what leftists can do. “news” NPR, for example, would rather play political games than earn bonus points with their ideological colleagues in Congress. The lives of overwhelmed Border Patrol agents, Americans who live along the border, and migrants who risk their lives trying to enter the U.S. are meaningless to them.

It is important to keep the Democrat-preferred narrative intact at all cost.

Shawn Fleetwood, a staff writer for The Federalist, is a graduate of The University of Mary Washington. He is also a Convention of States Action state content writer. His work has been featured on numerous outlets including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood

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