The nation’s Spanish-speaking media are joining the corporate media’s effort to goose their ratings with their own special programming to commemorate the “attack on democracy by the followers of President Donald Trump”; at Univision, the special goes by the name of “Assault to the Capitol: Testing Democracy”; at Telemundo, it´s an “Attack on Democracy”. But it wasn’t that long ago that these outlets gave favorable cover to an actual convicted insurrectionist.
As we watch the newscasts condemning the “insurrection”, we at MRC Latino cannot help but notice how the definition of “attack on Democracy” varies in meaning –and significance – when it originates from the left.
Consider this: Let’s go back to 2017. This was the time when Obama exonerated Oscar Lopez-Rivera, a TERRORIST and bombmaker for the FALN. Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional PuertoriqueñaArmed Forces of Puerto Rican National Liberation, responsible for the April 1975 bomb attack that left 4 people dead and 43 others injured at Fraunces Tavern in New York City.
The same media that today cries “insurrection” when talking about January 6, 2021, went out of their way to defend an ACTUAL attack to democracy by Lopez-Rivera, with the likes of Univision’s Jorge Ramos portraying him as a martyr under the wing of former U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez.
Possibly the most absurd on-air moment can be seen in this clip, where Gutierrez compares the FALN bomb maker and terrorist to George Washington as Jorge Ramos passively watches and offers no pushback:
CONGRESSMAN LUIS GUTIERREZ – D-IL Just like all the great leaders, heroes and heroines of the struggle to the fatherland or for their country. There he is. You see, this is the war for independence of the United States. If it were the war of 13 colonies Oscar Lopez Rivera in London, the newspapers would have written the exact same thing about him as they did of George Washington. Look, the struggle for independence is a struggle that every people has the right to and a responsibility, as Oscar has said, to do.
Here’s another example of Hispanic media applauding terrorists.
We will be watching the heralded insurrection specials at the nation´s Spanish-speaking media, expecting little surprises, lots of fake news and parroting of the talking points furnished by the White House.
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