Eric Boehlert: Washington Post goes all in with anti-Biden border coverage

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Washington Post goes all in with anti-Biden border coverage
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5:00 AM · Mar 22, 2021

Eagerly joining forces with partisan Republicans, the Washington Post over the weekend uncorked a doomsday write-up about the surge of young migrants currently overwhelming U.S. facilities along the Southern Border. Laying all of the blame for the three-decade problem directly at the feet of the new, two-month-old Democratic administration, the Post article echoed every conceivable GOP talking point.

What the piece failed to do was include crucial context for a complicated policy puzzle, and to delve deeply into whether Trump spent four years deliberately creating a border crisis that Biden is now trying to fix.

The Post also included no context for how Biden's brand new administration has been addressing border crossings while at the same dealing with the aftermath of a deadly insurrection, an impeachment trial, and passing the largest social spending bill in U.S. history. All in less than 60 days.

The Post is hardly alone in manically hyping the border story, at the behest of the GOP. In a highly unusual move, ABC This Week staged its entire Sunday program from the border, in order to focus on the "emerging crisis for the Biden administration."

On Saturday night, Post reporters fanned out on Twitter to tout their breathless story, which Republicans quickly seized upon. "‘No end in sight: Inside the Biden administration’s failure to contain the border surge," posted Josh Dawsey of the Post. Even more frantic was the tweet from colleague Nick Miroff: "How the Biden admin's poor planning, botched messaging, rush to repudiate Trump and a broken asylum system unleashed the biggest border surge in 20 years, with "no end in sight""

Fact: This is not currently the "biggest border surge in 20 years." It's not even close.

The Post article, as Julian Castro advisor Sawyer Hackett noted, was "pure hot garbage, beginning to end." He added, "Where the fuck was the outrage when Trump deported 13K children last year?"

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[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Gotta love the Conservative Corporate Media (nt)

[WHITT]

2. It's Not Just The WP

Martha Raddatz hosted 'This Week' yesterday and went into full Repub attack-mode, with her and guests sitting next to a portion of "the wall".

[PortTack]

4. Add dana bash from cnn to that list. Had to shut it off

[uponit7771]

3. omg M$M!! brother of an admitted traitor stopped troops from saving the capital building from an ...

... attack and is still serving, we're losing 1500 Americans a day on avg because a known white supremacist and known whore for Putin lied about the lethality of a 100 yr virus and Red state governors are opening up their economies and spiking infections and deaths.

But lets talk about Cuomo pre investigation, Tigers leg and Trumps border crisis that he's trying to blame on Biden.

This reminds me the M$M gave us Putin's Whore and most likely will do it again

We literally have the republican party in the US trying to take away voting access for 10s of millions of Americans and the story the M$M focus's on is Trumps border crisis ?!?!

SHIT

[PortTack]

5. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[Hortensis]

6. This situation is being dishonestly called a crisis. No. The crises took place

before these kids survived their arduous journeys to arrive safely and be taken into our care. Any teen who's come 1000-2000 dangerous miles is feeling pretty happy to be here, safe and fed and able to sleep with both eyes closed.

This is the beginning of the wait time, though, poor things. They've done so much, and now so much depends on others.

[lagomorph777]

7. The Post also published a nutjob COVID conspiracy theory,

eagerly parroted by a DUer today.