Dana Mathewson

For some reason, I've been seeing pigs flying past my office window lately. No, I am totally sober and not the least bit hung-over. But the following article, from Fox News, certainly has me wondering about things like Alternate Universes, etc.

No longer a ‘manufactured crisis’

But of course it's still Trump's fault.

Mainstream media and congressional Democrats alike were in lockstep just months ago that the situation along the southern border was a "manufactured crisis” being ginned up by the president for political reasons --but the narrative has swiftly shifted as those same voices now acknowledge the crisis while citing the conditions to attack the Trump administration.

President Trump highlighted the change in tone in brief remarks to reporters Wednesday afternoon.

"It wasn’t manufactured at all,” he said.

It's a striking contrast between then and now.

After Trump in January declared a "humanitarian and security crisis" during a prime time Oval Office address, Sen. Chuck Schumer, speaking beside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said Trump was working to "manufacture a crisis, stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration." Party leader Tom Perez also called it "manufactured.”

Democrats, many of whom downplayed the Central American caravans back in 2018, renewed their skepticism again after Trump declared a national emergency in February in pursuit of a border wall. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., described it as a "'crisis' that doesn't exist." Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted at the time that "we're not falling" for the "fake crisis."

CNN’s Jim Acosta famously stood along the Mexican border only six month ago, patting the steel slats and declaring that he didn’t see anything resembling "imminent danger” or migrants trying to enter the United States.

"No sign of the national emergency that the president has been talking about… pretty tranquil down here,” Acosta said.

CNN’s Kirsten Powers told Anderson Cooper last December that "the entire thing is something that's been manufactured to basically gin up support for a wall” when asked about the situation along the border. New York Times politics editor Patrick Healy said on CNN back in April 2018 that a "manufactured crisis” was occurring at the border.

Now, Ocasio-Cortez and others are comparing the situation to concentration camps.

While that comparison has been criticized, the evidence of overwhelming migrant flows and poor conditions at some detention centers has become undeniable for both sides of the aisle.

A heart-stopping and tragic photo of a father and daughter who died while attempting to cross the Rio Grande on Sunday underscored the disastrous situation. CNN covered it with a chyron, "Shocking image illustrates crisis at American’s Southern border,” and the Times published the photo on its front page.

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"The press can't deny it anymore, even though they did just a few months ago,” Gainor said, adding they would use the tragic photo to blame Trump."They won’t explain that its Democrats pushing open borders who have escalated this crisis by encouraging more people to enter the U.S.”

On April 8, 2018 CNN’s Brian Stelter opened his "Reliable Sources” show by hammering the point of the crisis being artificial while criticizing the decision to send in the National Guard.

"Hey, a manufactured crisis at the border,” Stelter said, according to a CNN transcript."A story that symbolizes everything that's wrong with the Trump era. President Trump receives faulty information, then he makes impulsive decisions and his staff has to scramble. Ask yourself: why is there so much talk about the U.S.-Mexico border all of a sudden? Why are National Guard troops suddenly being deployed?”

Stelter went on to answer his own questions: "Trump wants a PR victory… as a result, we're all talking about the border. A manufactured crisis.”

Stelter has since changed his mind. . .

It's quite an article, dear readers, and will tax your tolerance for hypocrisy to the limit. But I urge you to read it. Go here  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/southern-border-crisis-manufactured  for it.

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