Sunday, just two months after its parent company, Paramount, agreed to pay the Trump campaign $16 million to settle an election interference lawsuit for deceptively editing an interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, the outlet aired its edited version of Homeland Secretary Kristie Noem's answer to a question about Kilmar Abrego Garcia (pictured above).
What she actually said was, "The one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn't walk free in the United States of America. This individual was a known human smuggler, an MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater."
But the network cutt about four minutes from the nearly 17-minute interview, namely the truth about the danger the individual poses to American public safety.
Curtis Houck of Media Research Center is astounded that the network has apparently learned nothing.
"What in the world was CBS thinking?" he wonders. "Do they honestly want to be facing another lawsuit? In an alleged rush to edit down a lengthy interview to fit the show length, they cut out a particularly important part of Secretary Noem's answer explaining why father of the year ... needs to be deported," he tells AFN.
He says mainstream media outlets are on quite a roll.
"This is now the third issue recently where the liberal media have taken the 20 of the 80/20 issue: deporting criminal illegal aliens, cleaning up our streets, and supporting women and girls sports," the media watchdog observes.
Attorneys for Abrego Garcia have asked a federal judge to issue a gag order preventing Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi from making what they call "baseless public attacks" against their client.
DHS responded to the request by pointing out that if Abrego Garcia did not want to be mentioned by the secretary of Homeland Security, "then he should have not entered our country illegally and committed heinous crimes."
A DHS official recently told The Hill, "The media's sympathetic narrative about this criminal illegal alien has completely fallen apart, yet they continue to peddle his sob story."
