WHAT IS TELEMUNDO RUNNING FOR?

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POSTED ON FEBRUARY 25, 2016 BY PAUL MIRENGOFF IN 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,IMMIGRATION, MEDIA BIAS, PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, REPUBLICANS

WHAT IS TELEMUNDO RUNNING FOR?

There were five official presidential candidates in tonight’s GOP debate, but six debaters. The sixth was a female reporter from Telemundo.

 

She was running a single-issue campaign. Her issue was relief for illegal immigrants. Her performance was nauseating.

 

The Telemundo woman, María Celeste Arrasa, asked the candidates this question: “Do you [or your fellow candidates] get it?” By “it,” as she made clear in a speech masquerading as a question, Arrasa meant the need to pander to Hispanics on the issue of illegal immigration.

 

Even under the slack standards and biased practices of the left-liberal mainstream media, it should be unacceptable for journalists asking questions at a debate to stake out a substantive position and then ask the candidates whether they “get it.” The job of journalists in this context (and others) is to ask for the candidates’ position, not (in effect) to instruct them and the audience that they are clueless if they don’t agree with the position the journalist happens to take.