Is like the sweetest nectar to me.
Twice this week, I have caught an MSNBC host making a face like their diaper just filled up as their guest let it slip that the main driver of Central American youths to the southern U.S. border was the publicity of the D.R.E.A.M. Act.
Chris Hayes on Thursday and yesterday Morning on Melissa Harris Perry.
It was beautiful. You could see their eyes dilate and the blood leave their face. It was as though their broadcast life was flashing before their eyes as they imagined thousands of emails being sent at once calling for the removal of their show from the network for being “FOX News turncoats” or some such label.
It would only last a few seconds until they could stop their guest from speaking and redirect their line of questioning. Perry even went so far as to shuffle off to an entirely new topic after her guest “misspoke”.
But none of that is as sweet as this article at the HuffPo
Don’t Blame Central American Newspapers For Influx Of Undocumented Children
Which drones on and on about how this is all a Fox News lie, until about five paragraphs in (aka: four paragraphs farther than a typical HuffPo reader can bother to read) wherein this happened.
The White House rejects the idea that rumors of lenient treatment for minors have spurred the wave of migration, saying the uptick in unaccompanied minors crossing the border illegally is instead a result of rampant violence and poverty in Central America. Nevertheless, the Obama administration is now urging Spanish-language media to make it clear that minors who illegally immigrate to the U.S. today won’t be able to benefit.
So they deny that this is the cause, even with the evidence handed to them by members of Congress, but they are demanding that Spanish-language media stop doing it.
Remember to ignore what they say and watch what they do. And what they demand others do.