Surprisingly, the networks weren’t riveted by President Biden awarding a presidential medal to Liz Cheney (and Democrat Bennie Thompson) for their work on the Pelosi-Picked Panel on January 6.
ABC, CBS, and NBC all seemed to skip this little ceremony with the standing ovations on the evening newscasts. Biden gave the Presidential Citizens Medal to 20 people on Thursday afternoon. It’s not like the Big Three didn’t have the footage. On the PBS News Hour, anchor Amna Nawaz offered about a half a minute on it. She concluded with the note that Trump thinks both Cheney and Thompson should be in jail.
Why? There was no detail. House Republicans have argued the Pelosi-Picked Panel did not preserve all the evidence and video depositions collected, especially in the area of security around the Capitol. They’ve criticized Cheney for having contact with witness Cassidy Hutchinshon without her lawyer’s knowledge. That’s witness tampering. But the liberal media don’t care what House Republicans find. They’re sticking with Pelosi’s storyline.
The national newspapers were also a little bored with Biden’s medal ceremony. We couldn’t find it in The Wall Street Journal on Friday. The Washington Post put it on page A-14, and the New York Times on page A-11. The Times preposterously explained the medals were part of Biden’s “push for bipartisanship and decency in politics.” This is pure publicity, claiming that Biden’s been decent and bipartisan to the Republicans. Who can forget Biden saying the Republicans were “Jim Crow 2.0”? They were MAGA “extremists” undermining democracy. There was no decency.
So how will the Democrats greet this January 6? They refused to answer when Fred Lucas at the Daily Signal asked whether they would certify Trump’s victory. In case you missed it on vacation, there was a December 26 op-ed in The Hill, titled “Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now.”
This insurrection op-ed was penned by lawyers Evan Davis, a former president of the New York City Bar Association, and David Schulte, a Chicago investment banker, both of whom clerked for then-Justice Potter Stewart on the Supreme Court. Ignore the evidence of victory. Full speed ahead!
We close with a pair of MSNBC videos. Chris Hayes and Alexi McCammond were upset the Democrats have seemingly gone soft on calling Trump a fascist threat to democracy. How MSNBC is that?
That’s not so much the case when Morning Joe regular Steve Rattner displayed a chart on immigration and admitted “The border was not Biden’s finest moment, frankly,” and “Trump was not wrong” when he called it a crisis. Remember that when Biden started to clamp down on the border, the AP asserted “Biden has shifted far to the right on immigration since his winning campaign four years ago.”
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