Eating Your Own
You're so used to the media being in the leftist tank you've probably never wondered if there was a tactic so low, so unfair and below the belt that it would cause a member of the mainstream media to come to the defense of a conservative Republican. Well, it's happened.
Marc Caputo and Manny Garcia of the Miami Herald reports this morning that Univision, the nation's most watched Spanish language network tried to blackmail US Senator Marco Rubio into appearing on the network's program Al Punto on immigration. Jorge Ramos, the host, is hostile to Sen. Rubio's stance on immigration and is a big supporter of Obama's DREAM Act.
When the Senator turned them down they threatened to drag his mother and sister through the mud by rehashing his brother-in-law's drug arrests from 1987, an incident that took place when Rubio was just 16. If he appeared on the network, Univision would spike the story - a story so old and so disconnected from the Senator no other media outlet would touch it.
The whole story is on the Herald website:
The inside story: Univision’s war with Rubio over immigration, drug report
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Jul '10
Re: Eating Your Own
Amateur-hour extortion at Univision, how fun. The interview with Rick Scott seemed particularly bizarre:
On yet another show, a Univision reporter brought up the case of Rubio’s brother-in-law during an interview with Gov. Rick Scott.
“If something happened or if they discovered something about your brother in law — this is a hypothetical case — would you resign?” a reporter asked.
Did someone drop you on your head? Why would anyone resign because "something" was discovered about his brother in law? Who does that?
Sep '10
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Well, my quick read of the story in the Miami Herald made it look pretty bad on Univision. Corrupt. Shocking, in fact. So, like sharks at a feeding frenzy, at least the MSM can be counted on to eat their own when it benefits them. That's reassuring, in a Hobbsian way.
Oct '10
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UNIVISION is behaving like a hispanic MSNBC. somebody needs to do a "media matters" on their shows.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2011/05/27/univision-chief-appointed-white-house-post-will-networks-news-channe
Edited on Oct 3, 2011 at 6:55pmMay '10
Re: Eating Your Own
They should just go back to lousy game shows with buxom models with 50 pounds of pancake base as in the early days...
Nov '10
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May '10
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There are days when Univision actually outrates NBC.
Oct '10
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Is UNIVISION covering the Fast and the Furious?
Feb '11
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Yes but neglecting to mention the DOJ and White House involvement. Basically feeding the Latin American, particularly Mexican paranoia that US is bent on keeping Mexico on its knees. I have begun to let my Spanish speaking family know that Jorge Ramos is totally in the tank for Obama to which they reacted with shock. Jorge has created a reputation as a hard hitting but fair interviewer among Spanish speakers. I'm hopeful that one day the veneer of so called "fairness" of Mr. Ramos comes crashing down, the sooner the better.
Dec '10
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Rosie: [...] Jorge Ramos is totally in the tank for Obama [...] · Oct 4 at 11:09pm
What is the difference between Univision’s Al Punto and Pravda (“The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses” [Lenin])?
One is a paper full of lies calling them “truth” (“A lie told often enough becomes truth” [Lenin]) and the other is a talk show ”pointing at” the truth and turning it into lies.