The Watchdog with David Bozell

For 76 days, the longest government shutdown in history dragged on. It hammered TSA officers, Coast Guard families, Secret Service agents, and everyday Americans who depend on secure borders. Democrats dug in, refusing to fund President Trump’s deportation priorities and immigration enforcement.

Yet when the Media Research Center crunched every second of ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news coverage?

Only 5% even hinted that Democrats were the ones blocking the deal.

That’s it. Just five percent.

ABC, CBS, and NBC poured out more than two hours of shutdown stories combined. Yet they spent barely a handful of minutes telling viewers the real reason hundreds of thousands of workers went without paychecks: Democrat demands to kneecap ICE and border enforcement.

Even worse? In the days right after the attempted assassination of President Trump and his team at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, not one network mentioned that the Secret Service and other key agencies were operating under shutdown strain. Zero.

This is classic media malpractice. It is the same playbook that has trained Americans for decades to blame Republicans for every shutdown, no matter who is actually holding things up.

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​​​​​​​Take it easy, 

David Bozell
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