It’s really become like day and night for some people on the left to spew anti-Semitic comments, isn’t it? Well, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) did just that in a Yahoo News podcast released Friday that’s been ignored by the major broadcast network newscasts. CNN’s Early Start covered them three times on Monday by rushing to her defense, but was undone hours later on Inside Politics.

First, there’s Tlaib’s comments. On the podcast Skullduggery, she was talking about the Holocaust and lamenting how Palestinians created a “safe haven” for the Jewish people after World War II that cost Palestinians “their lands” and “their lives.”

Here’s the comments in question from Tlaib (click “expand,” hat-tip Jewish Insider):

Let me tell you, I mean, for me, just two weeks ago or so, we celebrated, but just took a moment I think in our country to remember the Holocaust. There’s kind of a calming feeling, I always tell folks, when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust and the fact that it was my ancestors, Palestinians who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in some ways had been wiped out…all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post the Holocaust, post the tragedy and horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And, I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right? In many ways. But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away, right? And it was forced on them. And so, when I think about a one-state, I think about the fact, why can’t we do it in a better way where — and I don’t want people to do it in the name of Judaism, just like I don’t want people to use Islam in that way — it has to be done in the way of values around equality and around the fact that you shouldn’t oppress others so that you can feel free and safe. Why can’t we all be free and safe together?

So, in other words, she suggested that her ancestors were “wiped out” and forced to lose “their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity” to make room for the Jewish people. If that’s not showing a disdain for the Jewish people, it’s difficult to say what is.

While the flagship ABC, CBS, and NBC newscasts have ignored these comments, CNN’s Early Start spent three minutes and three seconds on Monday over the course of three extended news briefs.

In each brief, co-host Dave Briggs introduced a condense version of Tlaib’s comments by framing it as — wait for it — a House Republican issue: “House Republicans denouncing Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for comments the Michigan Democrat made about the Holocaust on a Yahoo News podcast.”

After the clip, Briggs stated on all three occasions that Representatives Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Steve Scalise (R-LA) were “falsely accusing her of using the term calming to describe her view of the Holocaust itself” before excerpting both and moving on.

Earth to Briggs: It’s never a good move to use “comforting” and “Holocaust” in the same sentence.

If Early Start, The Washington Post, or any other pro-liberal outlet would have done a skosh more homework like AG Conservative, Jeryl Bier, and the Washington Examiner’s Seth Mandel did, they would have found that Tlaib’s comments were indeed disturbing despite the work by Tlaib and her team to double down while accusing critics of trying to silence her.

Fortunately, CNN’s Inside Politics covered Tlaib and host John King took her claims to the cleaners, knocking Tlaib for her “at best, an awkward word choice in any sentence referencing the Holocaust” before directly calling her out for spewing historical fiction.

Here was King with CNN global affairs analyst Aaron David Miller (click “expand”):

KING: She did call the Holocaust horrific and a tragedy so the Republican focus on the word “calming” does twist the Congresswoman's words out of contest, but she also fails a critical fact and context test. Yes, she said that Palestinians lost land in the creation of Israel, but she ignored the fact that Palestinian leaders at the time allied themselves with Hitler and the total war was how the Arab world reacted to the declaration of Israeli independence....Aaron, let me start with you in the sense is she can't rewrite that history and can't project revisionist history, so why? MILLER: First of all, I think there ought to be the ban of the deployment and employment of Holocaust imagery and metaphor in Washington politics. Any time he is been deployed by Republicans, Democrats, it's — it’s wrong. Genocide is not a unique event but the willful murder, systematic, organized murder of six out of every seven million European Jews is a unique event. And every time it’s done, it leads to misunderstanding and antagonism. She also has her history wrong, I mean, on two points. Number one, it's an arguably proposition even though there was no holocaust. Most of the propositions of the current state of Israel were in place before Hitler started killing Jews, so the Holocaust added urgency and international, support, but I suspect with or without it, the state of Israel would have come into being and finally on this notion that Palestinians either negatively or positively helped create a safe haven for Jews, the reality is that the Arabs in Palestine, Mohammad Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti in Nazi Germany collaborating, coordinating with the Nazis of what would happen if Rommel's Third Court had actually been successful in Egypt and been President of Paletine, they were considering extermination of the entire Jewish community, so this was ill-timed, ill-advised, and I think, clearly, is simply going to antagonize and polarize the already polarized debate in Washington.

Someone had to provide the more traditional, pro-liberal line, so congressional correspondent Sunlen Serfaty fretted that “we've seen Republicans really very eager to seize on those comments with it taken out of context a bit, of course” as “[t]hey’re very eager to paint this as the new norm of what the face of the new Democratic Party looks like.”

Republicans “seize!” Everyone drink!

To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s Early Start with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs on May 13, click “expand.”

CNN’s Early Start with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs

May 13, 2019

4:09 a.m. Eastern [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Developing Story; Tlaib Under Fire for Holocaust Comment; Rep. Cheney calls on Pelosi to take action against Michigan Democrat] DAVE BRIGGS: House Republicans denouncing Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for comments the Michigan Democrat made about the Holocaust on a Yahoo News podcast. Listen. CONGRESSWOMAN RASHIDA TLAIB (D-MI): It's kind of a calming feeling I always tell folks when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust and the fact that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their lands and some lost their lives, in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews post the Holocaust post the Holocaust, post the tragedy and I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right, in many ways, but they did it in a way that took their human dignity away. BRIGGS: Two top House Republicans are falsely accusing her of using the term calming to describe her view of the Holocaust itself. Minority Whip Steve Scalise says there is nothing calming about 6 million Jews being murdered and Liz Cheney of Wyoming calling on Speaker Pelosi to take action against Tlaib for her “anti-Semitism.” (....) 4:39 a.m. Eastern [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Developing Story; Tlaib Under Fire for Holocaust Comment; Rep. Cheney calls on Pelosi to take action against Michigan Democrat] BRIGGS: House Republicans denouncing Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for comments the Michigan Democrat made about the Holocaust on a Yahoo News podcast. Listen. TLAIB: It's kind of a calming feeling I always tell folks when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust and the fact that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post the Holocaust, post the tragedy, and I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that in many ways, but they did it in a way that took their human dignity away. BRIGGS: Two top House Republicans are falsely accusing her of using the term calming to describe her view of the Holocaust itself. Minority Whip Steve Scalise says there is nothing calming about 6 million Jews being murdered and Liz Cheney of Wyoming calling on Speaker Pelosi to take action against Tlaib for her “vile anti-Semitism.” (....) 5:07 a.m. Eastern [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Developing Story; Tlaib Under Fire for Holocaust Comment; Rep. Cheney calls on Pelosi to take action against Michigan Democrat] BRIGGS: House Republicans denouncing Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for comments the Michigan Democrat made about the Holocaust on a Yahoo News podcast. Listen. TLAIB: It's kind of a calming feeling I always tell folks when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust and the fact that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post the Holocaust, post the tragedy, and I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that in many ways, but they did it in a way that took their human dignity away. BRIGGS: So, two top House Republicans are falsely accusing Tlaib of using the term “calming feeling” to describe her view of the Holocaust itself. Minority Whip Steve Scalise says there is nothing calming about 6 million Jews being murdered and Liz Cheney of Wyoming is calling on Speaker Pelosi to take action against Tlaib for her “vile anti-Semitism.”

To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s Inside Politics on May 13, click “expand.”