MSNBC, covering the Republican National Convention just as other television networks, apparently decided that showing the moving tribute to the Gold Star families who lost their children at Abbey Gate in Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal was not worth showing.

MSNBC refused to cover the portion of the RNC honoring the Abbey gate dead so that Nichole Wallace could fret over the fate of Joe Biden and emote about a dying democracy. pic.twitter.com/7iZw1jsSP6

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 18, 2024

Instead, MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace pronounced that Democrats were “on the side of angels,” blustering, “I know there’s a lot of people covering the Democratic side, but it is exactly what endangered democracies do in the final hours that determine whether they remain democracies. So people should pull up a little bit on the Democrats, who are on the side of angels, trying to make sure we all continue to live in a democracy.”

As Jorge Bonilla of Newsbusters noted, you could hear the voices of Gold Star families in the background as MSNBC’s Joy Reid spoke over them.

You can hear the speeches of Gold Star families in the background as MSNBC frets over the future of Kamala Harris. https://t.co/iCJQ6bjB8e pic.twitter.com/vmcEqyj5AJ

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 18, 2024

Various Gold Star parents had expressed their anger at Biden in the wake of the deaths of their children in 2021. Richard Herrera, whose daughter, Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole Gee, 23, was killed, said of Biden, “He’s not invited to the funeral. If he comes, I won’t let him in the door. I don’t even really want to talk to anyone in his administration. There’s blood on his hands. I’m trying to keep it not political, but I can’t. You can’t not do that. It’s what got my daughter killed.”

The mother of Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, Kathy McCollum, told a radio show, “That feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap just sent my son to die.”

The mother of Marine Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, Shana Chappell, spoke of Biden’s insensitivity when he spoke to her, recalling in an interview with Townhall, “He interrupted me and started talking about his son. About his son. And I remember looking at him and going, ‘What are you doing?’ And then I said something along the line, ‘This isn’t about your son. This is about my son.’”

“I told him he had no business talking about his son,” she continued. “And then I started again talking about my son, and then he said, ‘I just wanted to let you know how I feel.’”

“At that point, now I’m even more angry because he said he brought up his son because he just wanted to let me know how he feels,” she remembered. “I probably sounded like I didn’t care that he lost a kid and I didn’t mean for it to sound that way. It’s — his son died of cancer, so they had time to be there, spend time with him, tell him goodbye. My son died because of the very man that I was talking to.”