More than any broadcast network newscast (aside from its evening counterpart, World News Tonight), ABC’s Good Morning America has circled the wagons on a daily basis for the Biden-Harris regime like their livelihoods depend on it. Wednesday saw them take it to another level by dismissing President Biden’s Tuesday night remarks that Trump “supporters” are “garbage” by lamenting “Republicans are seizing on what President Biden had to say.”
ABC was so committed to the bit that they spent more time swooning over Kamala Harris’s January 6 speech (four minutes and five seconds) and either engaging in whataboutism or harping on the Puerto Rico “garbage” comment Sunday by pro-Trump comedian Tony Hinchliffe (two minutes and three seconds) than they did on Biden’s comments (one minute and four seconds).
It’s as though ABC wants viewers to believe Hinchcliffe has more influence and power than the sitting President of the United States.
Outside the time count, the opening tease set the table for ABC telling viewers to move along:
ABC's 'Good Morning America' declares in a tease that "Republicans are trying to seize on something President Biden said," lamenting *they* are doing this after Kamala Harris provided a "sharp contrast" with Trump "speaking from the same spot" Trump did on January 6 pic.twitter.com/XOX1zaabTZ
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 30, 2024
Chief apple polisher Mary Bruce swooned over the rally in dark-blue Washington D.C. as “quite a scene” with Harris “speaking at the exact same site where Donald Trump addressed his supporters before they attacked the Capitol on January” and “urging Americans to stop pointing fingers, to start holding arms”:
ABC's Mary Bruce with more apple-polishing for Kamala Harris, gushing it "was quite a scene last night" at the Ellipse as she "urged Americans to stop pointing fingers" and "start holding arms" by letting her "take the country in a new direction.". pic.twitter.com/IAIIc6UtIX
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 30, 2024
Bruce read one press release-like line after another, including proclamations that Harris “promis[es] to take the country in a new direction,” has plans Harris “argu[es]...would better serve working Americans,” and “be a president for all Americans.”
This gave way to idolatrous Trump-hating correspondent Rachel Scott, who downplayed Biden’s smear of half the country to cheering it as him “going on the attack.” Instead, she tried to keep Hinchcliffe-gate alive:
ABC's @RachelVScott downplays Biden calling Trump supporters "garbage": "Donald Trump's campaign has been trying to turn the page after a comedian at one of his rallies compared Puerto Rico to 'a floating island of garbage,' but this morning Republicans are seizing on what… pic.twitter.com/CMAUHk045x
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 30, 2024
Scott insisted Biden backtracked and thus there’s no there there, including some classic whataboutism that “Trump has repeatedly gone after voters who are supporting Harris” and “still hasn't denounced any of the sexist, racist, or vulgar remarks made by speakers at his rally”:
ABC's @RachelVScott defends Biden, touting claims he never called Trump supporters "garbage" b/c Biden has "clarif[ied]" himself and....look at what Trump has said about Harris:
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 30, 2024
"The White House says President Biden was referring to the comedian, but Republicans seizing on the… pic.twitter.com/4gkd5NB5LW
She even insisted the election could be lost for Trump because of this: “But that comedian wasn’t the only one onstage to use racist and sexist rhetoric. Some Republicans warning the damage could already be done.”
Scott pointed to Nikki Haley’s latest jabs at the Trump campaign before closing with some fear-mongering about the future of the government bureaucracy:
[Robert J. Kennedy Jr.] said if Trump wins the White House, he has promised him control over public agencies. Kennedy, of course, has pushed a range of conspiracy theories including about vaccines[.]
To see the relevant ABC transcript from October 30, click here.
