The Media Research Center’s nasty war on Renee Good continued in a Jan. 10 post by Mark Finkelstein:
Angie Craig is a Minnesota congresswoman seeking the Dem nomination for an open Senate seat. Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, Craig’s ultraliberal primary opponent, has accused Craig of being too tough on immigration. Craig committed the unforgivable sin — in leftist eyes — of voting for the Laken Riley Act, and supporting a House resolution condemning antisemitism and expressing gratitude for ICE.
So Craig is clearly on a campaign to atone for her transgressions, and prove to the kind of far-left Dems who vote in Minnesota primaries that she is just as out there as the wackiest of them.
MS NOW’s The Weekend gave Craig an opportunity to do that, having her as a guest on Saturday’s show.
[…]Craig made at least three absurd claims, with no pushback from the MS NOW hosts:
- Saying “I was outraged, just like every Minnesotan and every American, for what Trump’s ICE is doing in Minnesota.” So, like Angie,100% of Americans are outraged at ICE! That’s even better than Kim Jong Un’s latest election results!
- Asserting that Good and others like her “are constitutional observers. They have every right to be there.” In fact, [per AI] while protesting ICE is a First Amendment right, physically obstructing or interfering with ICE officers, such as blocking vehicles, is illegal and can lead to federal criminal charges, including obstruction of justice and assaulting federal officers.
- Displaying her mind-reading chops, saying that the ICE officer who was in front of Renee Good’s vehicle: “Didn’t feel like he was in imminent danger. He had his cell phone out rounding that car. It is absolutely ridiculous.” This despite video of Good’s wife telling her at that moment, “Drive, baby, drive.”
Craig urged her constituents “to keep showing up . . . We cannot stop showing up” for anti-ICE activities. Peaceful protests are perfectly fine. But in not also urging people to refrain from the illegal obstruction of ICE operations, Craig could be putting her constituents in legal–and physical–danger.
Clay Waters used a Jan. 11 post to peddle a right-wing-friendly version of events:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good in her SUV during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, after giving her an order to get out of the car which she failed to obey, instead trying to leave the scene in her car, resulting in the fatal shooting.
Throughout is coverage thus far, PBS News Hour has leaned heavily on a selection of facts and assumptions to skew against the officer’s defensive shooting action, and ignoring inconvenient facts — like the fact that Good, a radicalized mother of a toddler, showed up in a dangerous situation to block legal immigration enforcement action, spurred by her wife who urged Good to “drive, baby, drive” before the officer shot at Good three times, killing her.
[…]We know now, thanks to the cop’s camera phone, that Good was “engaged in activism” and did know what ICE expected of her. They yelled at her to get out of the car.
Kayyem went on to bash President Trump and Vice President JD Vance for “a very shameful maligning of who [Good] is as a human being — I mean, she’s a mother and she was unarmed, and they called her a domestic terrorist….”
[…]Not even the release of video from the cop’s phone, which knocked down some of the liberal assumptions surrounding the shooting, made a dent in PBS’s hostile anti-ICE tone Friday.
Given that the video from “the cop’s phone” served its biased narratives, no wonder Waters is clinging so desperately to it. Meanwhile, in reality, Good was trying to steer away from the officer, who was not in the path of the car when he shot and killed Good.
Jorge Bonilla praised a senator for sticking to the partisan right-wing script:
A great deal of media coverage of the events in Minneapolis is marred by a bad-faith framing of the events that ultimately seek to blame the ICE agent and ICE policy for the unfortunate death of Renee Nicole Good. Case in point, Jake Tapper’s interview of Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) on an extended State of the Union.
The interview opens with Tapper offering contrasting quotes of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), setting up a question about the prudence of speaking out on a matter before an investigation is complete. Mullin rightfully pushes back[.] […]
This exchange was followed by more of Tapper questioning whether anyone could establish with certainty that Good hit the ICE agent with her vehicle before being shot. Never mind the volumes of evidence before us, published online, that established a precise timeline of events. It could be reasonably said that the truth went around the world before the lies had a chance to put their pants on. This explains, in part, both the administration’s aggressive stance and Tapper’s effort to continue to sow uncertainty in the name of asking questions.
Bonilla didn’t mention that none of those “volumes of evidence” he claims exist show Good’s car hitting the ICE agent.
Bonilla went on to whine about another TV interview:
The broadcast network Sunday shows made the unfortunate shooting of Renee Nicole Good their top story, with coverage and “analysis” inevitably geared towards gaslighting the public regarding what it can plainly see and further fueling anti-ICE sentiment. CBS’s Face the Nation stands as an example of such coverage.
Host Margaret Brennan opened the show with an interview of Minnesota congressman Ilhan Omar, exposing a stark difference from how her interviews with conservatives transpire.
[…]Brennan did not play video for Omar and ask her where, specifically, an officer ran in front of Good’s 4500-pound car. There was no challenging of Omar saying that we didn’t see what we clearly saw on video. There was no finger wagging, interruption, or display of the “Faces of Brennan” contempt we see when conservatives are interviewed.
The rest of the interview focused on the Minnesota fraud scandal and followed a similar pattern. Brennan asks a question, Omar gaslights and dissembles, and Brennan moves on to the next question.
Finkelstein returned to rant in a Jan. 12 article:
On Sunday morning’s edition of The Weekend, MS NOW’s double standard on the shooting of Renee Good was on dazzling display.
The hosts and guest Ayanna Pressley, a Democrat congresswoman from Massachusetts and a Squad member, were highly critical of the Trump administration for characterizing Good. They singled out Tom Homan for saying that Good had committed a “crime.”
But when Pressley — three times — accused ICE of Good’s “murder,” tossing in a “brazen killing” for bad measure — the silence from The Weekend hosts was deafening.
Finkelstein didn’t explain why this wasn’t the case.
Clay Waters groused that a PBS host said that “Voices of anger and outrage were heard across the country” after the shooting, hwdining that a guest included “radical D.C. candidate Kelly Mikel Williams” and “a leader of the Ralph Nader-founded leftist activist group Public Citizen … which has received millions in funding from leftist billionaire George Soros.”
Bonilla echoed Finkelstein in a Jan. 13 post:
The performance of some within the Elitist Media in covering the shooting of Nicole Renee Good can lead a reasonable individual to believe that they are openly rooting for another round of “fiery but mostly peaceful” protests similar to what we saw during 2020’s “Summer of Love.” Case in point, the latest report on the shooting to air on the CBS Evening News.
Watch as correspondent Nicole Sganga shockingly refers to the incident as a “murder:”
[…]For Sganga to utter “murder” here is simply breathtaking in the face of readily available evidence. This is sufficient to lead us to conclude that Sganga is at least wishing for riots.
It seems that Bonilla is wishing for an authoritarian display by law enforcement that would shut down the protests once and for alll.