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CNN Panel Imagines Images of Crying Mothers to Battle Trump On Birthright Citizenship
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/24/2025 11:00:00 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Find me a crying mother: STAT!

It's a classic liberal-media tactic. Want to combat a conservative policy? Find individual instances that will play on the public's heartstrings.

In a segment today on Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship, CNN This Morning provided a classic example of the strategy. Former Biden communications director Kate Bedingfield teed up the scenario: "I think Trump seems, uh, sometimes to be quite gleeful in pursuing policies that are, you know, hurting young children or hurting young families. You'll continue to see, I would imagine, more and more images of women with young children crying because they don't know what is going to happen to their kid."

Host Kasie Hunt was only too happy to make Thompson and Bedingfield's predictions come true. Quoting from an article in The Independent, a British newspaper, Hunt relayed the story of "Monica," a pregnant Venezuelan migrant who has been in the US for six years. According to The Independent, as a result of Trump's executive order, Monica "is stressed, anxious and 'depressed, facing a 'reality that my child might not be able to become a U.S. citizen.'”

Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

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1 posted on 01/24/2025 11:00:00 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; frank ballenger; ...

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 01/24/2025 11:00:32 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I will take people who do not exist for $1000 Alex


3 posted on 01/24/2025 11:02:24 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The morons shouldn’t use the misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment to steal U.S. citizenship.

Are they worried about their health and need an abortion or are they worried about their health because it might hurt their baby. Which is it.


4 posted on 01/24/2025 11:03:44 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (For a good time, call Lisa M. 123-4567)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Doesn’t bother me in the least, cry all you want.


5 posted on 01/24/2025 11:05:29 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I don’t think their tactics are going to work this time. People have seen the horrors of an open border. Those horrors are felt in their neighborhoods, apartment buildings and schools.


6 posted on 01/24/2025 11:06:18 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Simple counterpoint - run ads and videos on prime slots (broadcast, cable, streaming, sites) with crying mothers of victims of illegal alien criminals, in multiple languages.


7 posted on 01/24/2025 11:06:21 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Does CNN not realize that hardly anybody watches them anymore and more importantly, do they realize why?


8 posted on 01/24/2025 11:08:38 AM PST by Allegra (It’s MAGA time! )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The Chinese spend $10,000 to $30,000 for their birthing vacations... It’s disgusting. Trump needs to shut this abomination down and keep it down.

These mothers need to make an effort to make their own countries free and NOT use their babies to gain backdoor citizenship.


9 posted on 01/24/2025 11:08:43 AM PST by GOPJ ( "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Spktyr

Exactly!

From the article:

“Then reverse the thought: relatives of people victimized by criminal migrants will not be newsworthy anecdotes. Only the visuals that please a Democrat will be used.”


10 posted on 01/24/2025 11:08:53 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The Democrats, including their media, use emotional appeals as their only argument because they have nothing else.

If they had any logical, rational arguments they would use them.

But they don't.

They're like a debate opponent who resorts to ad hominem attacks.

"You're stupid, you don't know anything, you're a rapist, you're racist, you're a misogynist, you're a convicted felon, you're a fascist, you're Hitler, you're a terrorist, you're a..."

That's all they've got.

11 posted on 01/24/2025 11:09:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Question: Did “Monica” say this in English?

Question: Is she here illegally?


12 posted on 01/24/2025 11:10:24 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

i notice that the latest trend in fake news is to “imagine” fake news instead of actually fabricating fake news, as i’ve seen the fake news using this word more than once lately ...

apparently “imagining” fake news is a lot cheaper than actually fabricating fake news ... or perhaps that’s simply the best way to direct AI to generate fake news, e.g., “AI, IMAGINE that Trump is actually Hitler.” ...”

either way, all of that looks like just the latest desperate effort by the Democrat propaganda media to cut costs as they circle the drain ...


13 posted on 01/24/2025 11:10:58 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

CNN still has viewers, LOL they fired 300 of their staff yesterday because Spongebob Squarepants beats them


14 posted on 01/24/2025 11:11:32 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: FlipWilson

I wonder if CNN is gonna talk to Josselyn’s mother..Josselyn was under that bridge for THREE HOURS while 2 illegal alien maniacs raped and strangled her, no one from CNN seems to give a damn about what she went through


15 posted on 01/24/2025 11:12:16 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Deport her now before her kid is born.

Problem solved.


16 posted on 01/24/2025 11:15:42 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

There is an entire industry dedicated to bringing expectant mothers here to give birth to “American citizens”. Somehow, the family gets to stay and raise the kid. If up to me, send them back where they came from. They have obtained citizenship by deception, and don’t deserve it.


17 posted on 01/24/2025 11:18:39 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

See your enemies driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women...


18 posted on 01/24/2025 11:19:42 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Thing is, though, that the Republicans can simply buy ad time on the networks people are watching. And those would be online - even if the big three news media networks refuse to sell ad time, it won’t matter because nobody watches broadcast any more.


19 posted on 01/24/2025 11:21:24 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The thing is, they’re calling Trump all these names and accusing him of all these things. However, because we are his supporters, they will automatically assume that we are exactly like he is.

What I would like to know is what exactly are the consequences of them accusing US of all these things? Whether they understand it or not, the consequences are ABSOLUTE ZERO. They can call us every name in the book, but how will it actually affect us? It won’t. They seem to think we’ll lose jobs, social status, and be seen as pariahs and evil people in society. They don’t understand that it’s not going to happen.


20 posted on 01/24/2025 11:21:39 AM PST by hoagy62 (Hail Trump! Trump won! By a lot!)
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