White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez has been extremely protective of fledgling Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, and Thursday evening’s PBS News Hour opened with ten minutes of Barron-Lopez celebrating Harris and bashing her Republican critics as racist.
She aired Donald Trump’s counter-argument from a campaign rally (“Trump portrayed Harris as a liberal extremist”), then instantly (and falsely) tried to label part of it wrong:
The press is both contradicting its previous reporting calling Harris a “border czar” and also trying to shrink the scope of the border responsibilities that President Biden bestowed upon his vice president.
Bolstered by new border numbers, conveniently hot from the Biden Administration, Barron-Lopez strove mightily to neutralize Trump’s immigration attacks against Harris.
Back in the studio, she set up a clip from left-wing organizer…