At least four major networks have caved to Democrat demands that they be allowed airtime to provide a rebuttal to President Trump’s speech on border security.
The move, allowing an opposition party equal opportunity in a primetime slot to immediately oppose the President of the United States, has few precedents but isn’t that common. Such opportunities are typically only afforded for the State of the Union address or similar speeches to joint sessions of Congress.
But then, this is the era of Trump, where the media has dropped the facade of being impartial and have all but confessed to being in the tank with the Democrat Party.
Trump is set to address the American people at 9 pm Eastern this evening. He will present his case for border security, funding for a border wall, and is most likely laying the groundwork to bypass Congress and declare a national emergency in order to bring the effort to fruition.
Democrats, fearing facts on the topic being presented to the nation, demanded the networks provide them with time to counter with their open-borders falsehoods.
“Now that the television networks have decided to air the President’s address, which if his past statements are any indication will be full of malice and misinformation, Democrats must immediately be given equal airtime,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a joint statement.
They Caved, or Colluded
CNN caved faster than Anderson Cooper choking on a tequila shot, while NBC and CBS followed suit. Fox News, the only network that typically provides two points of view on any topic matter, also said they would carry the rebuttal.
CNN, NBC and CBS all say that they’ll carry the Democratic response to Trump live tonight. My impression is that the other major networks will do the same. But some of the details are still being worked out.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 8, 2019
Fox News Channel will carry the Democrats’ rebuttal to Trump’s speech tonight, the cable network confirms just now.
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) January 8, 2019
This marks one of the only times that a party has been granted response time to a speech that was not given to a joint session of Congress.
Republicans Didn’t Give Rebuttal Speech to Obama in 2011
President Barack Obama gave a speech in which he unveiled a major jobs initiative to a joint session of Congress. Republican leaders, knowing the economic outlook at the time would overshadow any tall tales told by the President, opted not to provide a response.
“Every member of Congress, and — more importantly — the American people, will provide a reaction to the president’s address,” a spokesman for then-Speaker John Boehner stated.
However, Republicans did give a rebuttal to another speech made by Obama earlier in the year that stressed the need to raise the debt ceiling. That rebuttal was aired on some networks, including CNN:
This is a rare example, however. Republicans were given airtime for rebuttal to Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress in 2009 over the Obamacare bill, which is far more typical.
One question remains: If the Democrats are so confident in their open-borders policies and so confident that the American people do not want the wall, why not let Trump’s speech rise or fall on its own merits?
UNBELIEVABLE: Don Lemon suggests that Trump’s speech be delayed so it can be edited and kept from Americans.
Chris Cuomo (the voice of reason) corrects him and says wanting a border wall isn’t immoral or wrong.
Cuomo giving Lemon a “you’ve lost your mind” stare is CLASSIC. pic.twitter.com/0nwI8BEssP
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) January 8, 2019
The President is also scheduled to visit the border on Thursday. Wouldn’t it be interesting if the Democrats decided to counter that as well – by actually visiting and discussing security concerns with our men and women fighting to protect the southern border?
Democrats voicing concern for the safety of the American people might be too much to ask.
Trump gave statistics while Chucklehead and PIG losi just gave their talking points that were 180 degrees from when their buddy, Obozo, was in office ….and they were trying to get re-elected by pretending to be for border wall funding….look up the videos on u-tube.
The Networks are afraid of the Democrats and are Trump haters and I bet they are getting paid big money
There is no pressure being put on the Networks. “But then, this is the era of Trump, where the media has dropped the facade of being impartial and have all but confessed to being in the tank with the Democrat Party.”
Mrs. Pelosi, at the age of 80, does not demonstrate that she has, as an elder, grown in wisdom or Godly faith, but has cultivated a criminal soul-life, that is promoting mass destruction of any order in America, by refusing to support the Wall! The Speaker of the House is actually threatening everyone’s “right to life and liberty”!! As a mother whose one son, an innocent, was murdered by the Cartel, at age 32, and another, that was raped, at the age of 9, nearly murdered, by an illegal Mexican immigrant, whose family was hiding in the Northern New Mexico mountains, and running from the law, where we lived, I am extremely shocked, even horrified by Pelosi’s dishonest and ruthless purpose! My son was going fishing that day, fishing for our dinner, and with his hands! It would be sheer justice for me and my children, to see such punishment returned upon her, and those, that, for hate’s sake, KNOWINGLY support her nasty, false, and divisive misinformation. I wonder what kind of childhood births such Pelosi persona, of which there are too many, that seems to have such a rabid intent to terrorize, and to destroy us! Mrs. Pelosi is obviously NOT for the American citizen. She wants to open the door to people whose governments are too selfish to civilize them with education and proper social ethics, or cleanliness! Is the American public so well-to-do, that they have no clue as to the reality that TOO many Americans have faced, are still facing, and will suffer even in a greater way and number, if the Wall is prevented?! No, and that is because of the programmed mind blinders of America’s fake press who are ruthlessly assisting this cataclysmic intrigue. How many are aware, that if the democrats rule, everyone will experience violence, and unimaginable loss! I declare that this female, “full of malice and misinformation” is not qualified as an honest representative of the American people. Pelosi’s unrestrained, and disrespectful verbosity is an embarrassment before the whole world, as well as a gross depersonification of the American female! Furthermore, even if my children had not been harmed, only an idiot would vote against the WALL! Americans have the need and the right to be protected by their own government, protected from peoples whose governments have brutalized their lives so thoroughly, that all they have been able to become are savages rotting with the disease of mind and body. If a person is treated like an animal, that is what the person will become. If any more of these people are allowed in, we will suffer a greater plague of ignorance, crime, and loss of health. Clearly, the opioid crises presents major social evidence of this uncontrolled invasion. The first responsibility to the American peoples is protection! Clearly, there are no American heroes on the Left, and that includes the fake news. But to reckon with these Nazi fakes, there is the Good News. “God will throw down the wicked.” As St. Michael the ArchAngel declared, as He was thrusting satan down into Hell: “There is none like unto God!” We must keep that in mind, and pray for America’s first Real President, for surely he needs our help too, and deserves it!
The same democrats who argued for protected borders, Obama, Clinton, Schmer, etc? Were they lying then or are they lying now or do they just plain lie because the truth offends them? I am voting for the latter
if Trump reprises his wandering technique used during his cabinet meeting we might need Putin to translate. Only Trump can take 1 + 1 and get r.
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The democrats are now openly impeding progress, of any kind, and are pressing division in the citizenry, like never before seen, strictly, for the sake of political gain and a great amount of hate for the democratic process. ( Wanting to eliminate the Electoral College, Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., introduced a pair of constitutional amendments that would eliminate the Electoral College as well as strictly prohibiting a Presidents pardoning rights. ) Do they really want this country to fail just to facilitate the ouster of a President? It now seems as if this is their only goal for this session of Congress. Is there nothing the American people can do to stop this treason? If no, why do we even bother to vote, the way things are shaping up, it will make no difference whether we vote and elect a President, they will change the policies and constitution, as they see fit, to rid of the opposing party of it’s leader. The media now has become, just as the President has indicated, the enemy of the people and of legal, constitutional, rule of bipartisanship by their mawkish, superjacent acceptation of only the Democrat party agenda. We are being destroyed from within.
Mrs. F posting: It is a little scary when Chris Cuomo is called the voice of reason. Is Chris SLOWLY becoming #WokeUp? His brother is still totally in the dark about what is the right things to do.
Mrs. F posting: It is a big waste of time and air, but we are not worried about what the Dems will say. We have pretty much heard it already. Hopefully, the liberals will tune in to hate TRUMP and instead, will learn something, especially when they continue on to watch the Dems talking out their “you know whats.” Maybe a few light bulbs will come on over a few liberal’s heads.
And yet, we still will not be told the Democrat solution to immigration. You know what it is — totally open borders with no vetting, no upper limit, and instant voting rights.
I am somewhat surprised that Amerikan Pravda does not air the demokrat’s rebuttal only and suppress the President’s address.
Demonrats are proving to the world what lying little children they are…when is open season on demonrats…???…
Normal! I’m no longer a Democrat because I’m tired of their lies and squandering of tax money for their votes and crooked agendas that make them rich yet blame others like the Republicans. only their way or no way. And of course the NetWorks are Democrat so same for them, Don’t listen or believe a word they say either!. I guess they have convinced many voters their way is right to pay for their party’s and trips while we work and suffer watching our jobs and security go to others and illegal aliens. It might take time for some slow people to wake up but the writing is on the wall, The DNC will NOT EXIST ever again when people see what they have done to destroy America for votes and petty childish antics!
It seems that just until Mr. Trump was elected the Left Wing Democraps were all singing a different tune and in full support going all the way back to “Horny Bill”. Do they think the we the people are so stupid as to not recall all of their rambling on about how immigration should be curbed. And they all want us to think that their actions are not strictly political. They should now all be arrested as “Bio-Terrorists” for allowing all of the sickness and disease to cross into the US unchecked.
Do the Operatives of the Democrat-Communist-Islamic-NAZI Terrorist, have any credibility whatsoever with Americans?
What idiots!! We will watch our President’s speech but will not stay tuned for the DemonRat rebuttal or to hear what the talking heads of the network like the idiot child Don Lemon have to say. We know their stance and we don’t agree with them. Their bias is well known and well publicized. So thanks for making the President’s speech easily accessible but forget rebuttals and commentaries. We form our own opinions. We do not need your help.
Cancel the speech and let Demos have the floor.
That would fulfill at least one of my hopes – to see Nimrod Nancy and Cryin’ Chuckie make blithering idiots of themselves … AGAIN.
let pelosi and schumer accompany potus to the border and see what the people really want they won’t do it because and i quote from one of my favorite movies “they can’t handle the truth”
LOL! Trump has the Demotwits scrambling in fear of facts. Theirs is going to be a “must see” act.