The Media Research Center did what it could to demonize anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota and defending the actions of ICE agents there. For instance:
- ABC Analyst Smears ICE Agent in Minneapolis, Suggests He Didn’t Know What He Was Doing
- Kimmel Puts Demands ICE ‘Get The F*** Out’ Of Minneapolis On a Shirt
- Psaki Echoes Frey’s Idea That Administration Is Spewing ‘BS’ On Minneapolis
- On Night Before ICE Shooting, CNN’s Burnett Let Minneapolis Mayor Claim Trump & ICE Are Racist
- New York Times Emotes Over Somalians Under Siege in Minnesota: ‘Now They Are a Target’
- Brooks Describes ICE in Minneapolis As Almost An ‘Armed Occupation’
- When NPR Likes Religion: Nutty Episcopal Bishop Says Prepare for Anti-ICE ‘Martyrdom’
- Detainer Dodge: CBS’s Sganga Continues to Stoke Anti-ICE Rage
- CNN’s Phillip Claims ‘Legitimate Fear’ Of ICE In Minneapolis Justifies Running From Them
Comedy cop Alex Christy complained in a Jan. 9 post:
Four of the five liberal late night comedy shows focused a lot of energy on their Thursday episodes on the situation in Minneapolis. According to them, the administration is lying about the female driver being a threat to the ICE agent who shot her, people who agree with the administration are fascists, and Trump plans to use the situation to further his goal of governing without elections.
After playing a clip of DHS chief Kristi Noem claiming the driver rammed the agents, The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert quipped on CBS, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I couldn’t hear you lying over your hat. Yesterday, Minnesota governor Tim Walz tweeted, ‘I’ve seen the video. Don’t believe this propaganda machine.’”
Rather than admit the truth that the Trump administration really was wrong and that Renee Good
The real truth is the agent in question isn’t some inexperienced, trigger-happy wannabe cowboy. He’s got experience with people using vehicles as a weapon, as he was hospitalized in June after being dragged 100 yards by an illegal immigrant driver.
As if that excuses the agent shooting and killing Good.
Christy returned to rant in a Jan. 13 post:
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, tried to claim there was some sort of logical disconnect between the Trump administration’s response to the Minneapolis shooting involving Renee Good and ICE agent Jonathan Ross on one hand and its threats towards Iran as the regime shoots protestors on the other.
Before he got to Iran, Kimmel had a take so hot, it could’ve melted all the Minneapolis snow, “The head of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, she doubled down again, she said Renee Good was a domestic terrorist. This is what they want us to believe, they need to paint anyone who protests as violent and dangerous, even a mom in a Honda. They need Antifa to be real to call in the military and cancel elections and declare martial law.”
[…]Over at The Daily Show, Stewart also saw double standards at play, “And the most confusing thing about his reason for intervening in Iran is his reason.”
Stewart then played a clip of CNN’s Pamela Brown recalling, “President Trump has warned of striking Iran if the regime kills protesters,” followed by another of Trump on Air Force One stating that, “There seem to be some people killed that aren’t supposed to be killed.”
Christy regurgitated his defense of the ICE agent who shot and killed Good:
Kimmel’s hysteria about cancelled elections aside, there is a world of difference between an ICE agent with a history of being a victim of someone using their car as a weapon reacting in the heat of the moment to someone—intentionally or not—driving their car at him and a regime cracking down on its own people who have had enough of its authoritarianism and the economic imbecility that has resulted from an ideologically driven, anti-Semitic, and anti-American foreign policy.
But Good was not driving her car at the agent, and Christy did not explain how the agent’s history somehow exonerates him.
Christy served up another comedy-cop rant the following day:
CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel lamented that the Justice Department is “investigating the victims” of the Minneapolis shooting involving Renee Good and ICE agent Jonathan Ross. However, neither host provided their audience with the key detail that Good’s wife, Rebecca, told her to “drive, baby, drive” after Good herself was told to get out of the car.
Colbert certainly wasn’t interested in narratively inconvenient facts when he huffed, “Now, it’s not just a surge of goons. In order to justify the unjustifiable gunning down of an American citizen in her car, the Trump administration is trying to smear Renee Good’s family now. Reportedly, senior Justice Department officials have pressed for a criminal investigation into Good’s widow, which today prompted both six federal prosecutors in Minnesota to resign and the resignation of five senior prosecutors in the criminal section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.”
[…]Over at ABC, Kimmel sang a similar song, “First they want us to believe that we did not see what we saw happen to Renee Good. Now, he wants us to believe the protests aren’t real. It’s like the emperor’s new clothes in reverse. He’s telling us we’re the ones who are naked while they do their best to cover everything up.”
Kimmel, who claims his monologues go through a thorough fact-checking process, not only omitted Rebecca’s role in urging Good to not get out of the car and drive away but also falsely added that Rebecca was in the car at the moment of the shooting, “Not only has the Trump administration iced local authorities out of the FBI’s investigation into the killing of Renee Good, six senior prosecutors in Minnesota just stepped down today after being pressured by the Justice Department to investigate Renee Good’s widow, who was a passenger in the car when she was shot. They’re investigating the victims instead of the perpetrator.”
Whether Rebecca’s actions justify an indictment is something for prosecutors to determine, but just because Colbert and Kimmel call themselves comedians does not mean they are exempt from the journalistic standard of providing their audience with all the relevant information, especially in a hotly contested issue such as this.
Christy failed to mentioned the inconvenient fact that Good steered away from the ICE agent. That seems like relevant information his readers need to know about.