Media emotion over 'family separation at the border' has a limited shelf life

Eddie Scarry:
Now that people in the news media are literally crying on TV, it’s time to watch public opinion once again drift into President Trump’s favor.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow looked like she might throw up from overexertion Tuesday night as she tried to force out a tear while reading a report on illegal immigrants at the border separated from the children they brought along (sometimes they’re parents, sometimes they’re paid smugglers).
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Her daytime anchor colleague Stephanie Ruhle choked up earlier in the day talking on air about the same thing. So that there was no confusion about her compassion, she wore a subtle pin on her top that said “LOVE.”

The issue (tens of thousands of foreigners overwhelming the southern border) has never not been a “crisis,” and yet it wasn’t described by the media as such until Trump got in office and began enforcing laws against slipping into the country unnoticed and unvetted. (Their children cannot join them in jail, where everyone must go after being charged with a crime, but you rarely see that spelled out in news reports.)

And as with every other cultural issue of the last three years, reporters and liberal commentators have taken the losing route of throwing themselves all in on the wrong side.

It’s hysterical.
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CNN thought it had captured a rare and profound moment on film when Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday asked acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan if the separations caused by enforcing the existing law are “humane.”

“I think — I think it’s the law,” Homan replied.

Asked again specifically if it was “humane,” Homan said, “I think it’s the law and I’m a law enforcement officer and I follow the law.” He added that he thought it was “inhumane” instead when parents pay smugglers to illegally bring their kids, who are often abused along the way, to the U.S.

But because there was a gap in Homan’s speech that lasted less than three seconds, on a question he had already answered, CNN swore it had gold, tweeting out the clip and telling followers to “watch the head of ICE pause when asked by Wolf Blitzer if the policy of separating children from their parents is humane.”
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I think I would have used hysteria instead of hysterical to describe the media's hypocrisy on the issue.  There were no tears when Obama was engaged in the same response to the problem.  In fact, many of the photos they are using to denounce the Trump administration's response were actually taken when Obama was President.  What we are seeing is media manipulation by liberals in pursuit of bad policy.

Those people comparing the administration's policy to Nazis and Hitler are ignorant of the reality on the ground as well as ignorant of history.

Border Patrol agent explains the horrors of the situation caused by the illegal immigration traffickers.

Others describe the media treatment of the story as a "pseudo-event.

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