Amazing.

Subtle too.

Over there at Newsmax’s nightly show The Right Squad, hosted by Chris Plante (and full disclosure, I am a Newsmax TV contributor) Chris opened his show the other night with a very interesting media observation.

Chris ran through some media headlines about the murder of University of Georgia student Laken Riley by one José Antonio Ibarra. Ibarra is a 26-year-old Venezuelan, an illegal migrant who is a member of the notorious gang Tren de Aragua. 

Chris noticed something that is very curious indeed. One by one he flashed media headlines about the guilty verdict handed down on Ibarra. Here they are:

The Washington Post:  Man found guilty, sentenced to life without parole in Laken Riley murder 

NPR: A man has been convicted of murder in the killing of Laken Riley 

The Associated Press: Man convicted of killing Laken Riley sentenced to life in prison without parole 

The New York Times: Migrant Gets Life Sentence for Killing Laken Riley in Case Seized On by Trump 

CBS News: Man convicted of murder in death of Laken Riley, Georgia nursing student killed on jogging tale 

CNN: Judge sentences Laken Riley’s murderer to die in prison 

Reuters: Man gets sentence for Laken Riley murder highlighted by Trump 

NBC News: Man found guilty of murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and is sentenced to life 

Notice anything in all of those headlines? Chris Plante did because he gets it exactly. In every media headline above - all those major American media outlets  describe Laken Riley’s murderer simply as a “man.” There is zero reference in those headlines to the reality - call it news - that the murderer - José Antonio Ibarra by name - is in fact, as noted above, “an illegal migrant who is a member of the notorious gang Tren de Aragua.”

But why? There is no thought here that all of those media outlets had a conference call to decide how to describe Ibarra. There was, one can bet, no conspiracy here. What there was is something infinitely worse and typical of the American “mainstream” lefty media. That would be an ingrained far-left mindset that quite deliberately if unconsciously is so far left it is utterly self-unaware.

The thought that Laken Riley’s murderer would be accurately described in a headline as “an illegal migrant” or “a member of the notorious gang Tren de Aragua” would either be deliberately withheld from the headline or, instinctively, without a thought otherwise as to the reality. The news.

And why? Because those mainstream media’s headline writers have absolutely no problem with illegal immigration. And from their perspective to call out the problem is, but of course, racist.

Which is to say, Chris Plante’s recognition of this little incident is a decidedly telling snapshot of the media’s mindset. And, one suspects, unless called out ,Americans may not even realize the subtle - and effective - propaganda the media uses to push the leftist cause of the moment.

No matter, in this particular case, the murderous horror now visited on the family of a Georgia nursing student whose only quite innocent action was to go out for a jog.