Media's cloudy memory of tear gas-tossing Border Patrol

It's not breaking news that the Obama-worshipping media napped for eight years and now a conservative newspaper is waking them up with a history lesson.

The media and Democrats expressed collective outrage over the weekend when U.S. Border Patrol agents fired tear gas canisters after a mob of rock-throwing migrants attempted to breach the border near a point of entry in San Diego.  

"Tear gas across the border against unarmed families is a new low," Brian Schatz, a U.S. senator from Hawaii, lectured on Twitter.

Yet it's not new despite Democrats' outrage --- whether real or faked --- and media reports such as a Huffington Post news report (see video below) set to ominous music. 

A day after the tear gas was deployed, The Washington Times reminded the public that the Obama administration also used tear gas or pepper spray against foreign nationals at the U.S.-Mexico border. That non-lethal action was done so frequently, the Times said, that it averaged once per month during President Obama's two terms.

The story's claim was rated "Mostly True" by fact-checking website Snopes, which found CBP agents used tear gas 1.3 times per month on average during Obama's last five years.

The lopsided Obama-era numbers and lopsided denouncements against Trump weren't lost on the White House, either.

"Let's not forget," Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told the media, "that this isn't the first time that non-lethal force like this has been used."

While the media was seemingly aghast at the Trump administration, media watchdog Media Research Center was watching when ABC, NBC and CBS completely ignored the data unearthed by the Times.

"The story was actually broken by The Washington Times and what they did was actually just kind of simple journalism," says MRC spokesman Scott Whitaker. "They didn't have any scoop. They just went and checked the record."

He attributes the lack of consistency in the media to the collective hatred of Trump --- Trump Derangement Syndrome --- and says that skewed news coverage is why the "Big Three" ratings remain in the tank, and why Americans don't trust the media to be honest with them.