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Artisanally-Crafted Narratives – VARIOUS OUTLETS
Being handed the very evidence of how the coordination is not working.
From the day President Trump took office, it has been a steady stream of reports from the press on the negative attributes of his immigration program. Everything from the process, the legality, the flouting of rulings by judges, to the claims of innocent lives being affected have been trotted out for public sympathy. One thing rarely if ever discussed? The will of the people.
This is for good reason; because that counters the collective media intent to paint these deportation efforts as unpopular. But the fact that Trump was elected after he campaigned on this very issue, and instituted it from Day 1 of his presidency, has to be left off of any discussion in the press on deportations, and we see the reasons why.
CBS News comes out with the uncomfortable report that its own polling shows a strong favorability for what the president is doing in addressing the illegal immigration issue. He said he would do it, now he is doing it – and the general public is in favor of this. That flies directly in opposition to all of the press narratives since Trump took office.
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CBS POLL: Most Americans approve of President Trump's handling of immigration — "and his deportation program is still net positive and popular." pic.twitter.com/wkQSOjBu5V
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 30, 2025
Low-Octane Gaslighting – THE ATLANTIC
My, you sure left quite a few details out of your weepy “reporting.”
The framing of this story by Jeffrey Goldberg’s outlet is incredible. The press has been trying to sell the myth of ICE rounding up innocents, and even American citizens, and shipping them off to the El Salvador Super Mejor prison, and The Atlantic claims it finally found such a case.
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @NickMiroff reports: https://t.co/GLR1VzwGzE
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 1, 2025
Now before you think that the Trump administration randomly plucked a church-going Eagle Scout father who builds orphanages and rescues endangered animals in his spare time, there is quite a bit avoided here. He IS an illegal, he IS a member of the MS-13 gang, and IS eligible to be deported. The clerical error was a court order stating he could not be deported to El Salvador.
I just read the court filings to get the full context (which may not satisfy either side):
— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 1, 2025
The man is an illegal migrant from El Salvador. In 2019, ICE presented sufficient evidence that he was a member of the MS-13 gang for an immigration judge to deny him bond and order his… https://t.co/Xb9VY39KG8
Presentation Paradox – NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
That is a crucial detail, buried near the end of your exhaustive report.
NPR conducted a lengthy PR move for the anti-Tesla (anti-Musk) movement, and boy, do they approve! There is extensive coverage of the hundreds of protests across the country, and deep explanations of why Musk is such a vile person in need of this outcry.
Of course, you need to sidestep a few things for such a glowing endorsement, such as who is specifically behind such an organized effort. There are also factually challenging details, such as stating his car company is suffering in part due to President Trump’s tariffs, then in the very next sentence, declaring his U.S. company may be among those least affected by tariffs.
But then when it comes to the issue of the widespread violence witnessed across the country where dealerships and charging stations are firebombed, incidents of people vandalizing vehicles, and roadside attacks on Tesla drivers are breaking out, you have to search deep for a mere brief mention:
Some of the anti-Musk backlash has been violent. Tesla vehicles, dealerships and charging stations across the U.S. and in Europe have been the target of arson and vandalism. Some have taken to spray-painting swastikas on Tesla sedans and Cybertrucks.
You have to fish around 20 paragraphs deep to find that little aside included in this report.
TeslaTakeDown protests are a nation-wide and world-wide phenomena based on anger over what Elon Musk is doing politically in the USA and other countries. https://t.co/5x629ZT3aN
— David Herron 🇹🇩🇲🇩🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@7genblogger) March 30, 2025
Reporting on the Mirror – MSNBC
This is more like the ship full of rats is departing.
With the process underway that Comcast is spinning off its cable channels to a standalone entity, it is causing consternation with MSNBC. Cost-cutting is underway, and a major restructuring of its schedule has taken place. Adding to the unease is the announcement that one of its star characters will not be going along.
The over-caffeinated touchscreen adept data analyst Steve Kornacki will be pulling back from the cable network and plying his trade with NBC, serving both political and sports broadcasts with his trademarked energized statistical deliveries.
MSNBC election analyst Steve Kornacki to depart network for NBC https://t.co/kQA9n4kjr8 pic.twitter.com/3uqnEaJD33
— New York Post (@nypost) April 1, 2025
Pulitzer Prize Nomination – THE NEW YORK TIMES
This Grade-A reporting would only be better if it contained actual news.
In a news report that defies logic in terms of how in the hell this ever made it into print, The New York Times delivers a lengthy and detailed report that shows off its journalistic skill set with possibly one exception; determining what constitutes actual news.
A woman was in a yoga class and the instructor called her out for taking a sip of water.
That is it, that is the extent of the events. Yet somehow this became extrapolated into a major news story? The woman was taking a hot yoga class, and she took a sip of water before a prescribed time, it seems. She was not prevented from drinking, mind you; she was just informed it was earlier than hoped for, but she was permitted to drink the water.
This woman after the class went on TikTok to bleat about how she had been shamed, or something. This garnered 2 million views, for reasons that defy common sense. The yoga studio responded, a college professor is cited for their opinion on the matter, and the instructor ended up losing her job over this fluid controversy.
The only thing missing is blaming this matter on the Trump administration.
Triple-Digit Heat, and Scolded for a Sip of Water https://t.co/DD6sMORzRM
— Brian Scott Gross (@bsgpr) March 31, 2025
