PBS Can’t Decide About Biden’s Bor­der Bluff: Bet­ter Than Trump or Hypocrisy?

Pres­i­dent Biden’s sur­prise exec­u­tive order to lim­it (on paper, any­way) the num­ber of migrants seek­ing asy­lum on the south­ern bor­der led the PBS New­sHour on Tues­day. They gave it thir­teen min­utes of atten­tion, with a news sto­ry fol­lowed by an inter­view that alter­nate­ly cov­ered for Pres­i­dent Biden (he’s no immi­grant-hat­ing Trump!) and chid­ed Biden from the pro-open-bor­ders left (though there is doubt among con­ser­v­a­tives as to how tough Biden’s exec­u­tive order tru­ly is).Anchor Geoff Ben­nett quick­ly attempt­ed to inoc­u­late the Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­dent, under pres­sure just five months before Elec­tion Day, by run­ning Biden’s self-aggran­diz­ing CYA state­ment sep­a­rat­ing his crack­down from any­thing Trump did at the bor­der. …