Tim Graham continued the Media Research Center’s effort to destroy Renee Good with his Jan. 13 podcast:
Everyone can agree that Renee Good’s shooting as she drove into an ICE agent was tragic. She could have simply obeyed the order to get out of the car, instead of putting it in Drive. But the media and Democrats mangled the facts into Good was just a peaceful mom who was driving away from the villains in an exhibit of “classic de-escalation behavior.”
Senior research analyst Bill D’Agostino and MRC Business associate editor Joseph Vazquez joined me to analyze the media’s pretty bad Good analysis.
On CBS’s Face the Nation, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) claimed Good was “sitting in her car peacefully,” and then it became the ICE agent “shouldn’t be trying to get in front of a moving car.” Which is it? Was she sitting or moving? Host Margaret Brennan didn’t push for an answer. Omar said Team Trump shouldn’t defend the ICE agent, because “we can see in the videos that have been produced so far that what they are describing is really not what is taking place.”
Despite the ICE agent’s video making it clear he was hit by Good’s car, CNN State of the Union host Jake Tapper pretended it was unknown, then suggested to Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla): “It does seem that he stepped to the side and was able to avoid getting hit in a horrible way, and he was seen walking fine afterwards.” Mullin scolded Tapper for cherry-picking still images and not showing the video evidence.
In fact, the video evidence makes it clear that the ICE agent was not hit by Good’s car. Still, Luis Cornelio and Tom Olohan pushed the narrative anyway:
The “Big Four News Apps” (Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News) quickly aligned to blame the Trump administration for the Minneapolis ICE shooting that resulted in the death of an anti-Trump activist who was blocking a road.
Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News flooded their websites with elitist, anti-ICE coverage after a federal agent shot Renee Nicole Good, who authorities said hit the agent with her car. The heavy promotion of left-leaning outlets came despite conflicting accounts of what occurred in the moments leading up to the fatal shooting.
For two days following the shooting (Jan. 8 through Jan. 9), the Big Four News Apps provided 30 total articles addressing the shooting, 20 from left-leaning outlets and three from right-leaning outlets. Among the prominently featured 20 left-leaning news articles on the shooting were stories from elitist outlets like CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times, as well as radical outlets like Salon and The New Republic. The right-of-center stories that the Big Four News Apps featured came from only two outlets: Fox News and National Review.
Olohan and Cornelio didn’t explain how Salon or The New Republic are supposedly “radical.” They went on to describe outlets they didn’t agree with as “leftist,” while right-wing outlets were never described as anything more disparaging than “right-of-center.”
Curtis Houck continued the complaining:
On Tuesday morning, the broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC continued down the road of incitement and support for the far-left mobs hellbent on attacking Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officers over both Wednesday’s death of Renee Good and their push to rid their communities of dangerous illegal immigrants, framing the aggrieved white liberals as “fighting back” against “anti-immigration tactics” causing “chaotic” scenes.
As our Jorge Bonilla established late Monday, the CBS Evening News featured correspondent Nicole Sganga ghoulishly framing last week’s shooting as “murder.”
As before, Bonilla did not explain why Good’s death was not “murder.” Houck snottily added:
Sganga was off of Tuesday’s CBS Mornings and replaced by Iowa-based correspondent Lana Zak. Co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King described the arrest of dangerous illegal immigrants as “anti-immigration tactics”:
[…]Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungaray, and Laken Riley were unavailable to comment to King about whether taking hardened criminals off the streets was anti-immigrant.
Nicholas Fondacaro served up his daily hate-watch of “The View”:
As the moderator of ABC’s The View, on Tuesday, Whoopi Goldberg acted as an enforcer of the fact The View only allowed THE view; shouting down two other co-hosts who dared to even hint that far-left, anti-ICE radical Renee Good was in any way in the wrong before getting neutralized by the ICE agent she tried to run over. Additionally, co-host Joy Behar searched for a legal basis to attack ICE agents and claimed the shooting was part of plot by President Trump to declare martial law to end elections.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin dared to acknowledge that there were other people (not on the show) who were saying Good had used her vehicle as a weapon against Agent Jonathan Ross, but Goldberg shouted her down by claiming the only “fact” that was allowed to be spoken was that “he had no reason to shoot her.”
[…]Goldberg went on to seemingly suggest that ICE and the federal government were trying to intimidate people into not going out to protest them: “What we’re being told basically is, either you go out and you protest and you know something could go wrong, or don’t go out and do anything. So that’s — those are your choices. Those are your choices.”
Co-host Sara Haines was the next to draw Goldberg’s ire after she touted how Good had attended training put on a far-left, anti-ICE group. Goldberg shouted over her when Haines hinted that Good might not have followed the training and put herself in a dangerous situation:
Fondacaro did not explain how, exactly, this alleged training was “far-left.”
Mark Finkelstein groused about Good as well when “Democrat strategist” Chuck Rocha discussed Good’s death:
As many ICE critics have done, Rocha described Renee Good as “unarmed.” While she might not have had a gun, she was at the wheel of a 4,000 lb. Honda Pilot SUV—potentially a very lethal weapon.
Again, Good did not hit the agent with her car, something Finkelstein didn’t tell his readers.