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GOP Congress looks like Dem majority

“Do you think you’re going to Hell?” This is apparently considered a highly newsworthy question by the Bari Weiss-led “CBS Evening News.”

The theological questioner was radical Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), who wants to abolish Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. The target was acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. CBS not only aired McIver’s sound bite, but anchor Tony Dokoupil quoted it in his introduction to correspondent Nicole Sganga’s very one-sided story.

The Republicans hold majorities in the House and the Senate, but if you watch how hearings are covered by the TV networks, they imply the Democrats are the gavel-wielders controlling the proceedings. Sganga loaded up four angry Democrat sound bites to one Republican. Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.) yelled: “If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one.”

By contrast, Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) accurately described the Democrats: “It seems like one side of the aisle is in favor of open borders and wants to abolish ICE.” Since Republicans praised the Trump deportations, that was somehow not news.

ABC’s “World News Tonight” covered the hearing, promoting two Democrat sound bites and two Republicans. But one Republican was chewing out ICE, and the other was granted just six words. So that’s three to one, at best.

Or consider the House hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi. The “CBS Evening News” piece on that was three Democrats to two Republicans, if you count Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who demonizes Trump on the Epstein matter. ABC’s Rachel Scott featured two sound bites of Pramila Jayapal, two from Becca Balint and one from Deborah Ross — and one from Trump-hating Republican Massie.

“NBC Nightly News” and Hallie Jackson brought four sound bites to zero — and one angry Epstein survivor. On NBC’s “Today,” Ryan Nobles repeated the unanimous tilt, with three Democrats and Massie and two angry Epstein survivors.

The theater in these reports was exactly as the Democrats constructed it, with Jayapal telling the Epstein survivors in the hearing room to rise so Bondi could apologize to them for the Trump Justice Department messing up in its Epstein files release.

At the same time, the networks skip hearings that didn’t please the Democrat narrative, like the House Ways & Means Committee hearing on “Foreign Influence In American Non-Profits,” specifically leftist non-profits who fund anti-ICE and pro-Hamas protesters. They can’t abide any discussion of the notion that the protest organizers they use in their stories are paid to make “news.”

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