Tim Graham went on another of his occasional whines that the Associated Press won’t introduce biased right-wing terminology into its reporting in a May 31 post:
The liberal media shows which groups they favor by the positive terms they use on their behalf. “Protections” is often a good example. Liberals will use the term “abortion protections,” which is odd considering you’re protecting the killing of unborn babies. Now it’s happening with illegal immigrants. Check this Associated Press headline, Mean Old Trump hates protections:
Supreme Court lets Trump end legal protections for 500,000 migrants, exposing more to deportation
Criminal justice reporter Lindsay Whitehurst didn’t say “illegal” immigrants were the subject:
[…]There were five uses of the P-word, six if you count the headline. (It’s seven when you see another AP headline in “Related Stories”!)
Graham offered no evidence that the migrants’ presence in the U.S. is “illegal.” In fact, these migrants entered the U.S. legally through a humanitarian parole process, meaning that they did have protections. Despite his being wrong, Graham went on to whine:
AP also repeatedly called it “humanitarian parole,” suggesting Trump opposes humanitarian policies — with no imagination that not every illegal immigrant is a humanitarian:
[…]And there it is! A version of the word “illegal” only comes up once — when Trump somehow creates “mass illegalization,” not Biden!
Biden never attempted a “mass illegalization” of migrants who are in this country legally, but you be you, Tim.
Yet he wasn’t done whining; he went on to huff that the AP reporter “gets bias bonus points for reminding readers of ‘They’re Eating the Pets’ from last year.” Graham doesn’t want readers to be reminded of this because that right-wing narrative was a lie and he and his employer privileged that lie.