After Propping Up Biden’s Staged Border Visit, NPR Frames McCarthy’s Trip As A ‘Photo Op’

Coverage of Kevin McCarthy’s first trip to the border this week since becoming House speaker provided just the latest example of how the corrupt corporate media provide vastly different treatment to Republicans and Democrats to advance the agendas of the latter.

On Thursday, NPR — which has a Histories This is Running PR campaigns Yet, Democrats still receive Contributors funding — published a clip from its “All Things Considered” podcast with a headline questioning whether McCarthy’s visit to the U.S.-Mexico border was “nothing more than a photo op.”

“House Speaker Kevin McCarthy led a congressional delegation to southern Arizona today to address concerns along the U.S.-Mexico border. But critics say this visit is nothing more than a photo op,” podcast host Ailsa Chang said.

The headline for the coverage of McCarthy’s border visit is noticeably different from the one NPR used last month to cover President Joe Biden’s first Verifiable In his 50-year tenure in public office, he visited the southern border.

“Biden visits U.S.-Mexico border for 1st time as president,” The January “All Things Considered” headline said.

During the short clip, the podcast host asked NPR International Correspondent Eyder Peralta about Biden’s visit to El Paso, Texas, to which Peralta began his response by utilizing legacy media’s infamous “Republicans pounce!” Frame it to make it seem as though the border crisis is a manufactured outrage by GOP.

“Republicans have been criticizing the president for not visiting the border, and in their eyes, he was ignoring the humanitarian crisis there. So today he went there to tour some facilities and talk to some border agents, and he even took a tour of the border wall,” Peralta said. “The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, didn’t seem very happy about the visit.”

At no point in the clip did Peralta or the podcast host bother to mention that prior to Biden’s arrival, immigration authorities cleared out many of the migrant encampments in the areas the president would be visiting. As The Federalist’s Tristan Justice reportedSources for Border Protection and Customs “described a ‘sanitized and orderly’ situation presented to the president, clouding the severity of the crisis.”

As a result of Biden’s open-border policies, illegal immigration has skyrocketed along the U.S.-Mexico border over the past two years of his presidency. In fiscal 2022, there were 2.3 million illegal aliens apprehended Border Patrol officials: 1.7 million were captured in 2021. These figures don’t even include the Many thousands Of known “gotaways,” Due to a “lack of manpower.”

Instead of focusing on the way Biden has exacerbated the disaster, we recommend you look at leftist perspectives. “news” NPR and other organizations would prefer to play political games in order to gain bonus points with their ideological counterparts in Congress. The lives of overwhelmed Border Patrol agents, Americans who live along the border, and migrants who risk their lives trying to enter the U.S. are meaningless to them.