House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan just spent a very public congressional hearing dragging Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Stephen Descano over his office's refusal to cooperate with ICE detainers — policies that helped shield illegal aliens from deportation — and ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted exactly zero seconds to covering it. Not a mention. Not a crawl at the bottom of the screen. Nothing.
But sure, tell us again how the media isn't running interference for the left.
Descano, a George Soros-backed prosecutor in one of Virginia's most populous counties, was hauled before the committee to explain why his office had posted — for six years — a policy on its website making clear it would not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. That policy conveniently vanished from the site just weeks before the hearing, after Jordan's committee sent Descano a letter demanding his testimony.
Jordan wasn't buying the cleanup job. "Why'd you change your website?" Jordan asked point-blank. Descano's answer was a masterclass in political weaseling: "Because that's not my policy. As I told you, sir. That is a campaign statement that I made before I was a Commonwealth's Attorney."
A campaign statement. Posted on his official website. For six years.
Jordan pressed harder: "But, Mr. Descano, it has been up for six years. A week after we send you a letter saying we want you to come testify — Shazam! You change it. I'm just asking, is that coincidental?" Descano's response was to call everyone else stupid: "Because I could not believe that somebody — that people were so obtuse that they could not realize what the difference between a campaign statement and an actual office policy."
So let's get this straight. Descano ran for office promising not to work with ICE. He posted that promise on his website for six entire years. Then, when Congress came knocking, he scrubbed it overnight and told a room full of lawmakers that anyone who took him at his word was "obtuse." Jordan summed it up perfectly: "Oh, so when you make campaign statements, those aren't true? You're not being honest with your voters?" Descano sputtered: "That's not what I'm saying at all, sir." Jordan fired back: "It sure sounded like it. It sure sounded like it."
The hearing also touched on the case of Abdul Jalloh, a Sierra Leone national who allegedly murdered Stephanie Minter at a bus stop near Mount Vernon. Cheryl Minter, Stephanie's mother, was present as the committee examined how Fairfax County's sanctuary-style policies and refusal to honor ICE detainers may have kept Jalloh on the streets instead of in federal custody.
A mother burying her daughter because a prosecutor decided federal immigration law was beneath him. That's the human cost of Soros money in local elections.
And what did the networks do with all of this? ABC ran nothing. CBS ran nothing. NBC ran nothing. As NewsBusters documented, three major broadcast networks with a combined nightly audience of tens of millions couldn't find a single second to mention a congressional hearing about a Soros-funded DA whose policies may have contributed to a woman's murder by an illegal alien. WJLA reporter Nick Minock covered it. The networks couldn't be bothered.
This is the media blackout strategy in its purest form. They don't have to argue that Descano is right. They don't have to defend sanctuary policies. They just have to make sure you never hear about the hearing in the first place.
They can't defend what Descano said under oath. So they pretend he never said it.