Just yesterday, The Daily Beast reported that NBC Today show correspondent Miguel Almaguer was suspended pending an internal investigation after NBC News was compelled to retract his reporting regarding the brutal assault on Paul Pelosi.
In
his report, Almaguer claimed Paul did not immediately declare an emergency
or try to leave his home, but instead began walking several feet back into
the foyer toward the assailant and away from the police.
Almaguer also
wondered Paul why didn’t try to flee or tell responding officers he was in
distress is unclear.
Almaguer
also cited court documents which state that, when the officer asked what
was going on, the assailant David DePape smiled and said 'everything's good'
but in moments a struggle ensued where the police saw DePape strike Paul Pelosi
in the head with a hammer.
Almaguer’s
claims were consistent with the police report about the occurrences mentioned
in Deadline Hollywood.
The
Deadline report stated:
According
to a network insider with knowledge of the situation, the decision was made to
remove the segment after it was determined, shortly after it aired, that the
main source for the information was unreliable regarding the question of the
circumstances that the police encountered when they arrived at the house,
specifically what the police saw and how far the attacker was from the
door.
However, Almaguer’s report
retracted with an
editor’s note claiming that “This piece has been removed from publication
because it did not meet NBC News reporting standards.”
The tweets about the report were also deleted:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1588585442005618692
It
is unclear what exactly happened at Pelosi's San Francisco home that
night because the security camera footage or the police camera footage hasn’t
been released.
We
can only infer based on the material available:
The federal
affidavit states that DePape broke
into Pelosi’s San Francisco residence on October 28, claiming he wanted to
speak with Nancy Pelosi, and eventually attacked Paul with a hammer.
The San Francisco court
filing by prosecutors
states that after police reached the residence, Pelosi walked with the attacker
to the first floor of his house and opened the door for them.
The
two were both holding the hammer, and then struggled over the hammer in front
of the officers at the doorway before the suspect bludgeoned Pelosi, the filing
said.
Pelosi
passed out briefly and started to bleed from his head before medical help
arrived.
DePape faces state charges including
attempted murder, burglary, and elder abuse.
Federal
prosecutors charged DePape with attempted kidnapping
and assault with intent to retaliate against a federal official by
threatening or injuring a family member.
DePape
has pleaded not
guilty.
Paul was taken to a hospital
where underwent "successful surgery to repair a skull fracture" and
"serious injuries to his right arm and hands."
There
were some open questions about the attack.
Why
didn’t the Pelosi residence have security and police presence that night?
Why
did DePape accompany Pelosi to the front door where the police were knocking
and why did DePape smile and say ‘everything’s good’ when the police
knocked?
Was
DePape attempting to deceive the police into thinking he was there as a guest
so that the police would leave or was he really a guest?
There
were some who were surprised that 82-year-old Paul Pelosi was discharged
from the hospital six days after having surgery to repair a skull fracture and
other serious injuries?
But
the Democrats had their narrative ready.
Despite
the police saying the motive behind the attack remains unclear, the Democrats
and their various mouthpieces such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Vox, and Rolling Stone, rushed to blame
President Trump and MAGA Republicans.
Biden,
Obama, and Clinton also claimed it was politically motivated
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1586437393909006338
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1586411168880807936
So
why was Almaguer suspended?
Was
it for interfering with the Democrat campaign narrative?
Was
it for erring in his reporting?
For
that, we look at NBC News's record.
NBC
News was among the primary advocates of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmqPvcwfZ3M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJrHrZBAMtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBeMbWb9IQg
NBC
News allowed scandal-mongering authors to blatantly fabricated that Trump was
about to be forced to resign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrgGcr3IHkk
NBC
News provided a forum for Democrats and unreliable media assailants to claim
Trump is a racist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsfG8IjxrMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl3kcsOWDJM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6QyCbNhCDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZO3kmpEn4
NBC
News provides a forum for Jussie Smollett who staged a racist homophobic attack
on himself by hiring actors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hPzVPTxDX4
If
NBC News was so concerned about factual reporting it would have suspended
reporters and contributors for misstating and fabricating.
But
that didn't occur, because if they had acted perhaps their entire new room
would be empty because all of them participated in misreporting during the
Trump Presidency.
So
do the news outlets such as NBC News have a Democrat bias?
Alleging
bias assumes that news outlets and the Democrats are separate entities and that
the Democrats are somehow influencing members of the fourth estate.
That
hypothesis is inaccurate
In
recent times the news media has become the propaganda wing of the Democrats.
Their business card may have the name of their news organizations but their allegiance
is always toward the Democrat party organization.
Their
utterances are often in perfect synchronicity, in fact, the terminology
while covering any given occurrence is often identical.
At
times they are also literally in bed with the Democrats, NBC News stars such as
Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie are married to current or former Democrat officials
This
is an echo chamber where doubts, facts, or opinions that contradict the
groupthink or questions are strictly forbidden. This is particularly true
during election time.
Those
who even erroneously contradict the Democrat narrative will be punished.
It hence seems likely that Miguel Almaguer was punished less for his alleged misreporting and more for going against groupthink when the mid-term elections were weeks away.
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