Julio Rosas at Townhall stories that C-SPAN is displaying a pro-Democrat bias. They didn’t cowl a Home Judiciary Committee listening to on the border disaster February 23 in Yuma, Arizona. 

Sources on Capitol Hill inform Townhall C-SPAN Congressional Editor Robb Harleston was initially receptive to the thought once they advised him in regards to the listening to earlier this month, calling the thought “nice.” The following day, Harleston flatly declined to have C-SPAN cowl the listening to as a result of, “We’re involved in regards to the absence of [Democrat] members of the listening to.”

GOP workers tried to impress upon Harleston the occasion was an official listening to being placed on by the Judiciary Committee on a difficulty they’ve jurisdiction over. Harleston continued to quote how Democrats selecting to not attend the listening to meant C-SPAN wouldn’t broadcast it, then lastly mentioning they have been coping with a manpower scarcity.

By that commonplace, C-SPAN ought to have determined to not cowl any of the Home January 6 Committee hearings. The Republicans have been denied their proper to pick their very own members. They might argue that the Pelosi-picked Republicans made it bipartisan, however anybody watching it knew it was unanimous in its political mission. It was not a debate and there was no steadiness. 

These hearings — which frequently was extra of a TV present than precise reside testimony — have been held contained in the Capitol. Rosas added that in 2019, C-SPAN broadcast a subject listening to in Los Angeles that Rep. Maxine Waters placed on when she ran the Home Monetary Providers Committee….and no Republicans have been current. Solely 4 Democrats have been on the Los Angeles listening to, versus 14 Republicans who have been current for the Yuma listening to.

Home Democrats claimed the explanation they weren’t going to the sphere listening to was as a result of they weren’t consulted on it. The Republicans mentioned they’d been involved with Democrats in regards to the Arizona subject listening to for weeks and tweeted out video of Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) publicly inviting Democrats to Yuma throughout the Committee’s first listening to in regards to the border disaster.

In actual fact, this is @Jim_Jordan inviting them to hitch throughout our first listening to! pic.twitter.com/rjLGD8mzCK

— Home Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) February 16, 2023

This was clearly a failure by C-SPAN to supply a radical and balanced presentation of congressional enterprise. One can guess they have been frightened about being slammed by the liberal media. 

“C-SPAN bases our day by day editorial choices on quite a lot of components, similar to curiosity for a nationwide viewers, the witnesses concerned, and steadiness of views over time. This leaves room for protection of occasions at which just one get together is represented, however the actuality of restricted sources is that we won’t get all of them. We’ve got lined many—and can proceed to cowl many—hearings and different occasions on immigration, the border, and the fentanyl disaster as our sources permit,” Ben O’Connell, C-SPAN’s director of editorial operations, mentioned to Townhall in an announcement.

Perhaps the Home Republicans must name C-SPAN to a listening to to defend its biased decision-making….and see if C-SPAN will cowl that.