Nets, Lefties Scramble Back to Drawing Board After Soros DA Gets Tossed in SF

All three news broadcast networks conceded Wednesday morning that the progressive darling and Soros-backed San Francisco prosecutor and son of terrorists Chesaboudin (D), was being recalled Tuesday night by the voters in this far-left-leaning city, amid growing crime and decay in the Golden City.

“Sending a message. Voters in San Francisco oust the city’s progressive district attorney, under fire for rising crime…Straight ahead, what it means for Democrats in key races nationwide,” said NBC’s Today Savannah Guthrie, co-host of the show in a tease.

NBC was the network that spent most time with Boudin. It aired for two minutes and 58 secs. Today Then, one minute and 58 second on NBC Nightly News Both coming from Jacob Ward, correspondent.

Continue reading Today, Ward boasted that “San Francisco pioneered all sorts of cutting edge criminal justice reforms under its progressive prosecutor Chsea Boudin, but now after an expensive recall campaign rising crime rates here and across the country, he’s been tossed out of his job and the nation is watching.”

Noting that many of the “same voters” that backed him tossed him out, Ward explained that while “Boudin won off his promise to fight inequality in the justice system with alternatives to prison,” it failed due to voters seeing their “city in decline” since “[h]omelessness and drug addiction rampant and crime is up” and “[h]omicides and assaults are up 11 percent this year.”

Ward further explained that the outrage came as the “wave of recent hate crimes and auto thefts touched every neighborhood.”

This was also his clever take on the matter. The Washington Post’s Scott Wilson that he himself would later note is something progressives will grapple with nationwide: “Lot of progressives are so wed to what they believe in, [SCREEN WIPE] that they won’t listen to what actual people are telling them.”

Ward allowed Boudin to speak his mind in the form a soundbite, falsely claiming his loss was due to “right-wing billionaires outspen[ding]” him.

On ABC’s Good Morning America, correspondent Eva Pilgrim reported that “[v]oters in” the “decidedly progressive city…oust[ed]” Boudin as “critics say he was soft on crime as he made attempts to ease sentences and reduce incarcerations” and “really came under fire as crime rates rised [sic] in San Francisco post-pandemic.”

Pilgrim framed it as a time for Democrats to lick their wounds: “

[T]his decision sending a major message to Democrats ahead of the midterms and raising some big questions for progressives about how to deal with crime and make voters feel safe and confident that Democrats can deliver if they’re elected, George. 

Continue reading CBS Mornings, White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe covered a slew of California results, including Boudin’s, saying that he lost his post due to “high-profile examples of crime like smash and grab robberies and anti-Asian attacks.”

O’Keefe closed his report (38 seconds of which was on Boudin) by having Democrats keep their chins up:

Remember, most Democrats across the country don’t embrace the defund the police movement or those more bold — bolder police reforms. Boudin was the one who did it and most residents in one Democratic municipality said that they do not like it.

The networks trying to help their side regroup was made possible thanks to advertisers such as Apple TV+, Dicks’s Sporting Goods, and Progressive. Follow the links to see their contact information at the MRC’s Conservatives Fight Back page.

To see the relevant transcripts, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), here (for NBC’s TodayHere (for) NBC Nightly News).