The liberal media’s shrill condemnation of President Trump’s zero-tolerance border enforcement policy reached a fever pitch on Monday as the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) dedicated massive amounts of time to hyperbolic assertions about the issue. The coverage from NBC Nightly News was arguably out of control seeing as anchor Lester Host asked a Border Patrol agent if he understood he was the "bad guy."

Holt’s ridiculously leading question came during NBC’s eight-minute and nine seconds-long marathon of reports dedicated to the President’s immigration policies. “[Do] you feel like the bad guy in this to some extent? I mean, you are the instrument of a policy that is obviously very controversial right now,” Holt lectured. The way the question was asked was meant to convey how they planned to paint the Border Patrol.

“I feel that the option of not doing anything is going to worsen the situation. So I think we have to work with what we have right now and hopefully get the immigration laws redone,” Manuel Padilla Jr., chief of the Rio Grande Valley Sector of Customs and Border Protection expertly countered.

This swipe at Border Patrol by NBC came after the network failed to report on an agent who was ambushed, shot, and forced to field treat his own wounds. Instead, they hyped a raccoon who climbed a building.

The melodramatic language was flying from the very start of the show. NBC was broadcasting from McAllen, Texas, a southern border town, or as Holt called it: “[T]he intersection where rigid government policy and human compassion collide with the children of migrants at the center.”

“Parents criminally charged, their children taken from them, all in the name of zero tolerance,” Holt lamented while pushing the dubious accusation that kids were being kept in cages and “dog kennels.” He also hyped audio of “kids crying for their parents released by a civil rights attorney, given to her by a client,” before being forced to admit “the audio is not verified by NBC News.”

The NBC anchor also bemoaned how “our cameras are being barred from showing you what's happening inside these facilities where children are being held. The only video you're seeing is what we get from the government and what they have allowed us to see.” He and the other networks framed it as though the government was trying to hide something and never make the connection that it might have something to do with the fact that many minors were housed there.

Despite the fact the children were being cared for, NBC did everything in their power to paint the situation as though they were living in a house of horrors. Holt spoke with Dr. Colleen Kraft of the American Academy of Pediatrics who claimed the workers were not allowed to pick up or comfort the kids. And she clearly stated she didn’t think it was hyperbole to describe it as “government-sanctioned child abuse.”

NBC even touted comparisons to America’s heinous internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. They also hyped the tasteless comparison by Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal who suggested it “reminds us of the cattle cars of Nazi Germany when children were separated from their parents. It reminds us of the Japanese internment camps.”

Holt wrapped up the program with a sanctimonious lecture about how “[w]hat is happening here is testing our better angels on multiple fronts, challenging our competing values of protecting our sovereignty and honoring our hearts.”

The relevant portions of the transcript are below, click "expand" to read: