The Liberal Media Bubble and the ABC Debate

September 14th, 2024 4:00 PM

It wasn’t a hard call. At this point in the history of televised debates, a history that began with the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates ( 64 years ago!!) and has continued on with a seemingly endless stream of both Republican vs. Democrat nominee debates plus Republican vs. Republican and Democrat vs. Democrat nomination debates, one would think ABC would have learned a thing or two.

NB Podcast: LA Times’s Gushy Profile of ABC’s Davis Gave Away the Game

September 13th, 2024 10:21 PM

Sitting in on Friday for host and NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham, Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I dove into an absurd Los Angeles Times profile celebrating ABC’s debate co-moderator Linsey Davis for, along with co-moderator David Muir, interjecting for so-called fact-checks of Donald Trump. 

NY Times Touts ABC Debate's Calm 'Factual Guardrails' Against Trump

September 12th, 2024 10:35 PM

New York Times’ media reporter Michael Grynbaum made Wednesday’s paper with the smugly confident post-presidential debate “Media Memo,” “ABC’s Matter-of-Fact Moderators Built Factual Guardrails Around Trump.” He wrote: "Using calm and authoritative tones, Mr. Muir and Ms. Davis offered a model for real-time fact-checking that has been absent from many recent presidential debates."

The Cipher and Her Praetorian Guard

September 12th, 2024 10:28 AM

In the lead-up to this week’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the polls showed a dead heat, both nationally and in seven swing states. The 2024 race is, by all measures, the closest presidential race we have seen in our lifetimes. But the usual presidential math applies The person upon whom the race becomes a referendum loses.

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Bozell on WMAL: ‘Not Surprised’ by Debate, ABC’s Been the ‘Worst’

September 11th, 2024 1:43 PM

On Wednesday, MRC founder and president L. Brent Bozell appeared on WMAL’s O’Connor and Company to break down ABC’s awful debate moderator performance put in by anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis.

ABC Blackout on Most Fundamental Issue During Presidential Debate

September 11th, 2024 1:07 PM

ABC hosts and debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis asked at least 27 questions of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris but not a single one touched on freedom of speech or censorship.

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ABC Cheers Working With Kamala to Wage ‘Warfare’ on ‘Defensive’ Trump

September 11th, 2024 12:16 PM

Following what can safely be placed at the top of the worst presidential debates ever given the election interference by ABC News’s questioning and open liberal partisanship by moderators Linsey David and David Muir, Wednesday’s Good Morning America was bursting at the seams over Vice President Harris “confron[ting] Donald Trump” (along with Muir and Davis) and putting him “on defense…

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Muir and Davis Asked Harris Only 2 Of Our 25 Recommend Questions

September 11th, 2024 12:12 PM

On Friday, we published a list of 25 questions that ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis should ask Vice President Kamala Harris at Tuesday’s debate with former President Donald Trump. However, the duo would ask only two of them.

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1 vs 3: Trump Had to Debate Kamala and Both of the ABC Moderators

September 11th, 2024 1:30 AM

While the pundits argue over how the candidates performed Tuesday night, NewsBusters can say that the performance of the ABC moderators was abysmal as they forced former President Trump into a three-versus-one fight. The night was filled with contentious moments where the moderators took on Trump with slanted/combative questions and targeted him with six fact-checks, evening inviting Vice…

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ABC’s Pre-Debate Show Was Tire Fire of Lefty Hackery (Like the Debate)

September 10th, 2024 10:27 PM

With World News Tonight anchor David Muir co-moderating Tuesday’s presidential debate, co-hosting duties for the hour-long pre-game show fell to This Week co-hosts and longtime ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl and Martha Raddatz alongside chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce and senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott. Simply put, it was a disaster of the highest…

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The Regime Media’s Debate Eve Coverage Sings From The Same Hymnal

September 10th, 2024 12:38 AM

With the much-hyped presidential debate less than 24 hours away the Regime Media’s coverage are converging along similar lines, in a manner not unlike a group of Sunday congregants singing from the same hymnal.

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100%! ABC Anchor David Muir Hosts Most Pro-Harris, Left-Wing Newscast

September 9th, 2024 9:05 AM

A new study by the Media Research Center finds that, of the Big Three evening newscasts, ABC’s World News Tonight has been the most positive towards Vice President Kamala Harris and the most hostile to former President Donald Trump.

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CNN's Zeleny On Whether Biden Should Pardon Hunter: 'Why Not?'

September 6th, 2024 2:02 PM

On CNN This Morning,  CNN correspondent Jeff Zeleny, commenting on the question of whether Joe Biden should pardon his son Hunter despite having said on national TV that he would not, says "why not?"

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The Worst of ABC’s Debate Moderators Muir and Davis 

September 6th, 2024 9:43 AM

The following are just a few of the most obnoxious outbursts from ABC anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis via the MRC’s archives: