Just 24 hours after ignoring Biden’s secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas’s well-deserved grilling by Senators for his disastrous performance in office, ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News showed how they were nothing more than servile stenographers for the Democrat Party on Wednesday, when they breathlessly covered socialist Senator Bernie Sanders berating Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz for so-called “union busting.”
ABC’s World News Tonight anchor David Muir had a news brief on the hearing, which was more than he dedicated to the Mayorkas hearing the previous night.
“On Capitol Hill today, the former CEO of Starbucks defending the company from allegations of union-busting,” Muir reported, before hyping how “Howard Schultz appear[ed] before a Senate committee today” and “clash[ed] with Chairman Bernie Sanders.”
Muir then aired a heated back-and-forth when the socialist curmudgeon Senator started harassing Schultz:
SANDERS: The past 18 months, Starbucks has waged the most aggressive and illegal union-busting campaign in the modern history of our country.
SCHULTZ: Starbucks coffee company unequivocally—let me set the tone for this very early on, has not broken the law.
Over on CBS Evening News, anchor Norah O’Donnell apparently thought Sanders lecturing a former CEO on how to run a corporation was so amusing that she made a few cringeworthy puns in her opening monologue:
Starbucks former chief executive Howard Schultz was in the hot seat today in front of a Senate committee, where he defended himself and the coffee chain giant against allegations of union busting. CBS's Nikole Killion is on Capitol Hill, where tempers were brewing.
O’Donnell then turned to Killion to give her report which was full of soundbites from Sanders having a temper tantrum over what he described as “union-busting.”
“Starbucks violated federal labor law over 100 times during the past 18 months,” Sanders claimed. Schultz denied those allegations and politely responded that “Starbucks Coffee Company unequivocally has not broken the law.”
ABC & CBS weren't alone. They were also joined in their syrupy coverage of Sanders' outburst by their taxpayer funded counterpart PBS NewsHour, with correspondent Lisa Desjardins hyping "a confrontation over business, workers and American values, as former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz faced a top critic, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders."
ABC & CBS ignoring Mayorkas being put on the hot seat while breathlessly covering Sanders berating a former CEO was made possible by Prevagen on ABC & Fisher Investments on CBS, while PBS is paid for by viewers like you. Their information is linked.
To read the relevant transcripts click “expand”:
ABC’s World News Tonight
3/29/2023
6:46:01 p.m. EasternDAVID MUIR: On capitol hill today, the former CEO of Starbucks defending the company from allegations of union-busting. Howard Schultz appearing before a Senate committee today, clashing with Chairman Bernie Sanders.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT): The past 18 months, Starbucks has waged the most aggressive and illegal union-busting campaign in the modern history of our country.
HOWARD SCHULTZ: Starbucks coffee company unequivocally—let me set the tone for this very early on, has not broken the law.
MUIR: Employees have now voted to unionize at nearly 300 Starbucks stores.
CBS Evening News
3/29/2023
6:43:33 p.m. EasternNORAH O’DONNELL: Starbucks former chief executive Howard Schultz was in the hot seat today in front of a Senate committee, where he defended himself and the coffee chain giant against allegations of union busting. CBS's Nikole Killion is on capitol hill, where tempers were brewing.
NIKOLE KILLION: With a cup of Starbucks by his side, former CEO Howard Schultz defended the company he founded.
HOWARD SCHULTZ: We have created 5 million jobs from a cup of coffee.
KILLION: As some steaming Senators poured on.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT): And these workers are out there struggling today.
KILLION: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders led the hearing to probe the coffee chain's labor practices, accusing them of being anti-union and breaking the law.
SANDERS: Starbucks violated federal labor law over 100 times during the past 18 months.
SCHULTZ: Sir, Starbucks Coffee Company unequivocally has not broken the law.
KILLION: Nearly 300 stores have unionized since the first store in Buffalo in 2021.
