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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNetworks play along with Trump's fake crisis now but denied Obama airtime in the past!
Networks agree to carry Trump's speech about nonexistent 'crisis' at U.S.-Mexico borderA 2014 Obama address on immigration was called too overtly political" to air by many of these same networks.
FRANK DALE JAN 7, 2019, 7:45 PM
President Donald Trump announced Monday in a tweet that he would be addressing the nation on Tuesday night regarding his proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trumps announcement comes as his partial shutdown of the federal government stretches into a third week with no end in sight. The Trump administration is demanding $5 billion to fund the presidents wall and Democratic lawmakers have refused to grant his request.
Trump and his top officials have repeatedly misrepresented immigration policies and smeared immigrants in an attempt to justify the wall including Trumps questionable claim of a crisis on our Southern Border, which he has continued to repeat even though border-crossing attempts are at a historic low and have been in steady decline since 2000.
Nonetheless, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News have agreed to broadcast Trumps speech on Tuesday night.
Former President Barack Obama requested and was denied air time from major broadcast networks for a 2014 address regarding executive actions on immigration because it was deemed overtly political and not a bipartisan announcement.
Trumps announcement comes as his partial shutdown of the federal government stretches into a third week with no end in sight. The Trump administration is demanding $5 billion to fund the presidents wall and Democratic lawmakers have refused to grant his request.
Trump and his top officials have repeatedly misrepresented immigration policies and smeared immigrants in an attempt to justify the wall including Trumps questionable claim of a crisis on our Southern Border, which he has continued to repeat even though border-crossing attempts are at a historic low and have been in steady decline since 2000.
Nonetheless, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News have agreed to broadcast Trumps speech on Tuesday night.
Former President Barack Obama requested and was denied air time from major broadcast networks for a 2014 address regarding executive actions on immigration because it was deemed overtly political and not a bipartisan announcement.
https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-border-wall-national-emergency-immigration-address-nation-mexico-twitter-909cd43a66a8/
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Networks play along with Trump's fake crisis now but denied Obama airtime in the past! (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Jan 2019
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Anon-C
(3,430 posts)1. You know what's up!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. That's the "liberal media" in action!!!
The same GOP ****suckers that gave us Trump in the first place because his insanity circus was good for ratings!
The MSM loves their GOP overlords, they are on their knees to Trump and the GOP, it's plain to see.
grumpyduck
(6,246 posts)3. It's business not personal.
Once one network agrees to it, the others have to along because they're afraid of being perceived as biased and therefore losing viewers and advertising revenue. Back in Obama's day the nation wasn't this divided and it was easier to say no.
I'm not defending it... just seeing it for what it is.