Had a Republican Member of Congress referred to a terror attack as an “unfortunate accident”, been called out after the fact and then corrected to “unfortunate situation”, you would see that story garner significant A-block time across the legacy media nightly news. But when the calculus is, shall we say: (D)ifferent? Crickets.
Had a Republican Member of Congress referred to a terror attack as an “unfortunate accident”, been called out after the fact and then corrected to “unfortunate situation”, you would see that story garner significant A-block time across the legacy media nightly news. But when the calculus is, shall we say: (D)ifferent? Crickets. Watch as former House January 6th Commission Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MI) diminishes a terrorist attack as an “accident”, then “situation”:
DISGUSTING.
.@BennieGThompson, the shooting of two National Guardsmen in D.C. was not an “unfortunate accident.” It was a TERRORIST attack.
The Afghan nationals who entered the United States under Operation Allies Welcome were unvetted. @Sec_Noem and DHS will find out who they… pic.twitter.com/pH6qZOurjJ
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 11, 2025
Thompson wasn’t the only one, either. Here’s Texas Congresswoman Julie Johnson saying that the National Guardsmen were shot in the head out of frustration over immigration policy.
SICK: Rep. Julie Johnson says National Guard members were shot in the head in a terror attack “because people are frustrated and they are channeling that frustration.” pic.twitter.com/ayw1K3R9tf
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 11, 2025
One can recall when the networks routinely plumbed such hearings for outrage. Now, there just isn’t time. NBC was the sole network to cover the hearing, and even then only as an addendum tacked on to another story:
28 seconds at NBC is what the legacy nightlies devoted to the depravity on display at yesterday’s contentious Hill hearing. And even then, while NBC shows Bennie Thompson footage there is ZERO play of the “unfortunate accident” exchange with DHSSEC Noem. pic.twitter.com/3L2Zp0Nl96
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 12, 2025
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
12/11/25
6:41 PM
TOM LLAMAS: There was also a heated hearing on The Hill today involving Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem?
RYAN NOBLES: That’s right, Tom. Secretary Noem was grilled by lawmakers on the Trump Administration’s mass deportation program and the type of people that are being targeted by ICE agents. At one point Secretary Noem ended the hearing early saying that she had a meeting at The White House, but that meeting had been cancelled, confusion that The White House chalked up to miscommunication. Tom.
LLAMAS: OK, Ryan Nobles with that new reporting tonight.
That scant 28 seconds at NBC was countered by straight omission at CBS and ABC. There was simply no time to show the diminution of a horrendous terror attack on our nation’s capital at ABC- that would’ve cut into the network’s trademark nonlethal traffic accident reporting (bus hits a Manhattan building). Likewise, CBS had no time at all (but I did learn that Silent Cal Coolidge kept raccoons as housepets, so there’s that). Overall, yet another reminder that if it weren’t for media double standards, there would be none at all.
