White House officials and Republican senators refused to do interviews to discuss gun control on Sunday’s news programs in the wake of the horrific Uvalde, Texas mass shooting where 19 children and two teachers were slaughtered.
The White House reportedly turned down requests from CBS, CNN, and Fox News. No Biden officials appeared on Sunday news shows to discuss the Robb Elementary School massacre despite the left screaming for gun reform.
Margaret Brennan, who is the moderator of CBS’ “Face the Nation,” reported that “the White House did decline our invitation for a member of the administration to come on the show today, saying they were leaving it up to Congress to act.”
Similarly, CNN’s “State of the Union” was unable to get anyone from the White House to appear on the show to discuss gun control Sunday.
The White House apparently refused an invitation to go on Face the Nation this morning and talk about gun control. No administration officials appeared on any of the Sunday shows. Very questionable. pic.twitter.com/MisLC3Wzcm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 29, 2022
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According to host Dana Bash, Uvalde is “so overwhelmed by loss, that the parents of 9, 10, and 11-year-olds have to wait weeks to bury their own children because the funeral homes are so busy dealing with the small, broken bodies from Robb Elementary School rooms 111 and 112.”
“As these parents learn more about the excruciating delay by 19 law enforcement officials who waited outside the door where children were trapped with the gunman, as they learn about the young man who made violent threats but was able to legally buy a weapon of war, and as they call for action from their elected officials but say they know it’s unlikely, it’s hard to feel hope that things will change,” Bash said pushing with all her might for gun control to be implemented.
“President Biden is on his way here to Uvalde this morning. He will try to comfort grieving families, as he’s done so many times before. Enough times that the political reality seems to have set in,” she intoned, further promoting a leftist agenda to do something about guns in America.
Bash claimed that the show had “asked for a White House official to join us to talk about solutions this morning, but no one was made available.” She also stated that Republican lawmakers Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz also declined requests by the media outlet.
“CBS’ characterization is just flat out wrong,” Michael Gwin, who is a spokesperson for the White House, said in a statement that was given to The Hill. “Given the President’s visit to Uvalde, the White House broadcast team chose to speak with one voice this Sunday – that voice was the President’s.”
“We’re using every tool at our disposal to save lives from gun violence, and the President is using the full weight of his bully pulpit to press for change, but we can’t do it alone, Congress needs to act,” Gwin declared.
Mediaite is reporting that a spokesperson for Fox News told them that the White House also turned down interview requests for “Fox News Sunday.”
“Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd reported that every single Republican senator declined to go on his NBC show to discuss the shooting as well.
(Video Credit: Meet the Press)
“We asked each of the Senate’s 50 Republicans, every single one of them, to join us and none agreed on this weekend,” Todd charged.
However, a number of Republican representatives did appear on Sunday shows. Those included Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on “State of the Union” and “Face the Nation,” Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) on “State of the Union,” Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) on “Fox News Sunday,” and Beth van Duyne (R-Texas) on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
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IMO, if they are banning anything, it should be the violent games put out for these disturbed kids to sit for hours and play, getting them juiced up into this killing mode, The gun does nothing but lie dormant, until some idiot uses it. I guess we’ll have to ban cars too, The fool that killed several with his car used that afterall, and this was the killing by a black man who killed white folks, but Biden couldn’t find it in his heart to go to Waukesha. Guess the color of the perp and the victims made the difference. IMO, black folks and brown folks get USED by some politicians, for their votes (ie., more or less acting as if they think they are too stupid to realize they are being USED).They aren’t!.
Dana Bash was a mess yesterday. https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/05/29/daniel-ruiz-uvalde-texas-shooting-survivor-briana-ruiz-mother-interview-sotu-bash-vpx.cnn
The role of supportive adults is to reinforce to the children that they are loved and are safe now. Bash has no idea how to talk to children, especially children in crisis. She could have done a little research about how to handle the topic of school massacres before she engaged in this prolonged inquisition. She asked Daniel, a survivor who saw the gunman approach his class and shoot his teacher, stupid, intrusive, and cruel questions such as “Did the gunman see you?” She waited and waited for this poor kid to explain his traumatic experience. Bash’s questions were overly wordy and she was trying to formulate them while on camera live with a survivor and his Mom. Long, painful, dead air pauses. She is not compassionate and offered no comfort. She didn’t even communicate to this boy that she is sorry for what happened to innocent kids and teachers. Some words that might have brought some comfort to this kiddo. She acted as if she was interviewing an adult about their political stance. The kid must have been thinking, as I know fourth graders do: “What do you mean, “How do I feel?” ” How would YOU feel lady?” It was a disaster and only went to show Bash’s motive. Her shameful aim was to get kids and their parents to cry their eyes out about the trauma so she can move into a question about gun control or how terrible Governor Abbott is and how much better Beto O’Rourke would be.
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