Today’s quote comes to us from President Trump’s Deputy Chief Of Staff, Stephen Miller.
It seems that the staff at CBS’s long-running 60 Minutes show is up in arms, because the network’s newly appointed News Editor-In-Chief, Bari Weiss, who is not a solidly committed liberal (a very unusual situation at CBS), held up a feature on CECOT, El Salvador’s prison, where the Trump administration is sending Venezuelan tren de aragua gang members.
Apparently, Weiss felt the story was too one-sided (what a surprise!!); that it talked about the abuses at CECOT (fair enough), but did not present the Trump administration’s side/why it sent these brutal gang members, illegally in the United States, there.
Here is Mr. Miller’s reaction:
“They are trying to tell sob stories about Tren de Aragua gang members who drill holes in people’s hands, who rape and murder little girls.
“This is the gang who kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered Jocelyn Nungaray. Remember her? That precious 12-year-old girl from Texas who is taken from her mom and went through horrors none of us can even imagine?
“And you have these ’60 Minutes’ producers who are living in comfort and security in their West End condos trying to make us feel sympathetic for these monsters?
“Have you seen the tattoos, the face tattoos, the body tattoos on these killers? Would one ’60 Minutes’ producer or writer agree to spend 30 minutes– I’ll make a deal. We will pick someone at random that we sent to CECOT, just a random lottery drawn, and they will spend one day overnight in your apartment.
“Who is taking that deal at 60 Minutes? Nobody! Because they know that these are monsters who got exactly what they deserved.
“Under President Trump, we are not going to let little girls get raped and murdered anymore,”
I award Stephen Miller Quote Of The Day honors for trying – unsuccessfully, I’m sure – to tell CBS news people there are two sides to this story, and therefore both sides should be included in the 60 Minutes feature.
Maybe, if Bari Weiss is very lucky, a few of them will express their dissatisfaction by leaving the network – to be replaced, I would hope, by people who accept the concept of airing both sides.
There’s a name for people like this. They’re called journalists.
