CBS, NBC Covering Up FBI Raid of Democrat Congressman’s Residence and Office

The news reports from an FBI raid against a Democratic congressman are deliberately omitted by broadcast networks CBS and NBC.

On Wednesday, an initial report of news broke. FBI raid on the home and campaign office of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), CBS and NBC have had three opportunities each to mention this story in a major broadcast — two evening newscasts a one two-hour morning show apiece. But even as details continue to trickle out about the nature of the FBI’s search, neither network has spent a second on the story.

Even though ABC became the sole broadcast network that touched this topic on Thursday evening, it has been extremely reluctant to make mention of it. They only covered this topic once, a 20-second brief news report on Thursday’s evening edition. World News Tonight.

Liberal cable networks have spoken out about the raid on occasion. Even MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, brought it up on the Wednesday edition of her 9pm ET show. She did not discuss it in the hour long time slot. MSNBC spent only 5 minutes 11 seconds on this raid while CNN has devoted 6 minutes 5 seconds. Not much compared to the raid of Roger Stone’s house (when CNN had a news crew on site before officers even entered the house), but again, it’s something.

Here’s a brief summary of the Cuellar raid courtesy of MSNBC’s Pete Williams, accompanied by a very disappointed Chuck Todd:

Rather than discussing the Cuellar story, both CBS and NBC on Thursday evening ran full-length segments about the New York Attorney General’s investigation into the Trump Organization. The news was also covered by the CBS and NBC correspondents about the January 6th investigation committee.  

If a state investigation into a former President is news, how come an FBI raid of a prominent sitting Congressman isn’t? Clearly it’s got something to do with the capital D next to Cuellar’s name.