On Friday morning, the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC giddily promoted Thursday’s attempted town hall by western North Carolina GOP Congressman Chuck Edwards that was derailed by “democracy in action” and “frustration” from “heated” voters who are “very loudly and very clearly” unhappy with the Trump administration.
This was passed off as organic instead of wholly partisan in which the most committed leftists flock to and pack town halls (no matter whether they live in a particular district) and team up with the media to paint conservative policies such as shrinking the federal government via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is unquestionably unpopular.
CBS Mornings didn’t even have a problem with the far-left mob chasing Edwards afterward as he’s trying to get to his car. If this had happened to Congresswomen Maxine Waters (D-CA) or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the liberal media wouldn’t think it’s fun and games.
“We’re going to begin this hour with Americans speaking up very loudly and very clearly at town hall events across the nation. Republicans in Congress are taking the brunt of it over President Trump and Elon Musk’s deep cuts to federal jobs and programs and the uncertainty over the economy. Lot of people worried,” co-host, Democratic donor, and Obama family friend Gayle King gushed.
She added that Republicans have grappled with “very tough questions from the constituents” as a segue to Edwards choosing to still hold one, which “got — how shall we say — very heated.”
Congressional correspondent Nikole Killion went down to Ashville for the charade: “At Tuesday’s town hall in Asheville the lines began early, snaking outside the building with some who oppose President Trump...and others who support him.”
Amid that first thought, she had balance with one soundbite each of elderly white women representing the left and the right. After there, however, it was all heat.
Killion did the rudderless left’s bidding (click “expand”):
KILLION: As the event got underway, frustrations toward the administration bubbled over.
ANGRY MALE TOWN HALL ATTENDEE #1: Listen to us now!
KILLION: Attendees sounded off.
ANGRY MALE TOWN HALL ATTENDEE #2: Why is a non-elected person running our government?
KILLION: — and shouted down GOP Congressman Chuck Edwards who represents Asheville, a blue city in an otherwise red district.
ANGRY MALE TOWN HALL ATTENDEE #3: You’re lying! I’m a veteran, you don’t give a [EXPLETIVE] about me.
KILLION: At least one man was hauled out by police.
ANGRY MALE TOWN HALL ATTENDEE #3: You don’t take away our rights! You don’t get to take away our health care. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] Get off me. You don’t get to do this to us. [EXPLETIVE] you! [EXPLETIVE] you! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
(....)
ANGRY WOMAN AT TOWN HALL #1: Why are people losing their jobs at record numbers?
KILLION: Many in the room are still recovering from Hurricane Helene.
ANGRY WOMAN AT TOWN HALL #2: We don’t need to hear you tell us what we lived through.
Again, no consideration there was any coordination.
“It follows a series of similar town halls nationwide where members of Congress have faced off with angry constituents. [BOOS] Edwards received a steady stream of questions about Elon Musk, tariffs, the Ukraine-Russia war, and massive cuts from the government from the VA to the Department of Education,” she added.
Killion also merely passed along that “[c]rowds surrounded Edwards as he left” with video of Edwards having to be surrounded by security as he entered a parking lot.
Back live, co-host Tony Dokoupil declared it all was “democracy in action.”
Having been the network to give the most attention to the first wave of town halls, ABC had Good Morning America on the case, down to even a tease with fill-in co-host Rebecca Jarvis bragging about “the heated town hall in North Carolina over President Trump and Elon Musk’s slashing of the federal government.”
Partisan tool Rachel Scott — who masquerades as senior political correspondent — painted the Trump agenda as on the ropes thanks to “voters....confronting their Republican representatives[.]”
Following a clip of the Edwards mob shouting “Chuck is a coward,” Scott touted the “heated town hall” in which Edwards was “confronted by constituents” and “booed...for 90 minutes.”
Scott obviously didn’t paint a man escorted out as a lunatic: “One interaction turning so contentious, this man had to be escorted out.”
She later returned to the townhall with a question being read insinuating DOGE was cutting Social Security benefits (and on the heels of an earlier bite falsely claiming veterans were having their health care cut).
NBC’s Today only had 34 seconds of jubilation on these partisan and phony agitators.
Ahead of a soundbite from it, chief business correspondent Christine Romans declared the GOP were “fac[ing] growing frustration from voters...over the Trump administration’s economic policies and government cuts, anger erupting at a town hall led by Republican North Carolina Congressman Chuck Edwards yesterday.”
To see the relevant transcripts from March 14, click here (for ABC) and here (for CBS).
