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Nets Aghast Trump Justice Dept. Protecting Rights of White Students
August 2nd, 2017 11:30 AM
On Wednesday, the network morning shows were all deeply troubled by a New York Times report that the Trump Justice Department was preparing to defend the civil rights of white students applying to college. At the top of ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host George Stephanopoulos sounded the alarm: “Breaking overnight, new reports the Trump administration is taking on Affirmative Action, preparing…

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Dowd: Congress Treats Trump ‘Like a Child’ So ‘He Can’t Harm Country'
July 31st, 2017 10:21 AM
On Monday morning’s Good Morning America, anchor George Stephanopoulos spoke with ABC’s chief political analyst Matthew Dowd about Trump’s struggle with Congress, hyping the recent conflicts as if every president before Trump never had problems getting what they wanted passed. Dowd then compared Congress to the “parent” of the helpless infant, Trump, who Congress has to protect from the serious…

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ABC Eagerly Touts Chuck Schumer’s Lefty Economic Plans
July 24th, 2017 10:45 AM
In an appearance Sunday morning on ABC's This Week, New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer teased his party's economic plan which will be unveiled Monday. One hopes, probably in vain, that it incorporates an understanding of basic economics. Schumer betrayed the fact that he has little to no such understanding when he declared that "gas prices are sticky," and that when the "price for oil goes…

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Flashback: Bill Clinton Removed Stephanopoulos in Favor of ‘Grown-Up’
July 21st, 2017 12:00 PM
Sean Spicer resigned as White House Press Secretary on Friday. Journalists immediately jumped on this as an example of yet more turmoil and harped on Spicer’s “missteps.” But White House tumult is hardly new, even for Presidents who would go on to serve two terms. ABC should know, considering that the network admitted in 1993 that then-President Bill Clinton “shunted aside” top aide George…

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Nets Hype ‘Another Russia Controversy,’ ‘Startling’ Trump-Putin Chat
July 19th, 2017 4:36 PM
“Too cozy,” “controversy,” “striking,” “crisis,” “startling,” those were just some of the hyperbolic terms thrown around on Wednesday’s network morning shows as hosts and correspondents panicked over news that President Trump had a casual after-dinner conversation with Vladimir Putin surrounded by dozens of other world leaders at the G20 Summit earlier this month.

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‘That’s Not True!’ Trump's Lawyer Battles ABC Over Anonymous Reports
July 12th, 2017 10:50 AM
One of President Trump’s lawyers, Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice, made his rounds on the morning shows Wednesday to defend Trump from the media’s accusations that he must’ve known about his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer in June of 2016. On ABC’s Good Morning America, anchor George Stephanopoulos repeatedly tried to get Sekulow to admit Trump was complicit and would…

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Fake News: Stephanopoulos Claims Senate Bill Cuts Medicaid by $800 Bil
June 25th, 2017 12:19 PM
After Senate Republicans unveiled their ObamaCare replacement on Thursday, ABC smeared the bill during World News Tonight with claims that people were going to pay more for less and that Medicaid was being cut. On Sunday, Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos took to his show, This Week, to continue their smear campaign. “The President right there said no cuts in Medicaid … Why is the President…

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Nets Hype Dems Suing Trump, Helped Hillary Dodge Corruption Charges
June 12th, 2017 1:19 PM
On Monday, the network morning shows breathlessly hailed the latest partisan Democratic effort to attack President Trump, resurrecting a lawsuit accusing Trump of violating a clause in the Constitution because of his business interests. Such charges were hyped by the same media that excused the Clinton Foundation scandal that swirled around Hillary Clinton.

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ABC: Comey Will State ‘Just the Facts' Because Trump 'Isn't Trusted'
June 8th, 2017 10:48 AM
Hours before former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate on the FBI Investigation into Russia, ABC was already predicting how the hearing was going to play out. On Thursday’s Good Morning America, ABC set up Comey as a man who could be trusted, no question, conveniently forgetting how much he was criticized by both sides for his handling of the Russia investigation and Hillary…

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Stephanopoulos Tees Up Lying Rice To Smear Trump Administration
June 4th, 2017 1:58 PM
After a couple of whirlwind weeks of the media bashing President Trump on everything from how he “lectured” U.S. allies at the NATO meeting, to his son-in-law Jared Kushner allegedly looking for a Russian back channel, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos sought the opinion of Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice. During her appearance on This Week on Sunday, Stephanopoulos gave Rice free reign to…

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Nets Tout Hillary’s Excuses for Losing, Conspiracy Theories
June 1st, 2017 3:32 PM
After Hillary Clinton used a softball inteview during a Silicon Valley tech conference on Wednesday to blame everyone but herself for her failed presidential campaign, Thursday’s network morning shows eagerly promoted her excuses, even pushing unfounded conspiracy theories advanced by the former Democratic nominee.

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Nets Fear ‘Deep Cuts’ in Trump Budget, Ignore Ballooning Debt
May 23rd, 2017 12:42 PM
On Monday and Tuesday, the broadcast networks all read from the same liberal script as anchors and correspondents blasted the Trump administration’s proposed budget for making “deep cuts” to “social safety nets” that would be “especially cruel” to the poor. Not once was the nation’s nearly $20 trillion debt mentioned in any of the one-sided coverage.

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ABC Worries About ‘Anti-Islamic Backlash’ After Deadly Terror Attack
May 23rd, 2017 10:23 AM
Twenty-two people are confirmed dead and dozens more injured, after a suicide bomber set off a bomb in a concert arena late Monday night in Manchester, England. Even more sickening is the fact that thousands of young children and teens were at this concert. Despite the horrific nature and impact, ABC was eager to downplay the motive behind the deadly attack. In fact, ABC was more worried about…

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ABC Gushes: Could This Be Trump's 'Most Dangerous Mistake' Yet?
May 16th, 2017 10:33 AM
After the evening news broadcasts rushed to hype an unconfirmed Washington Post report based off of anonymous sources Monday night, ABC was eager to tout the story as “the most significant and dangerous mistake of the Trump presidency” on Tuesday morning’s Good Morning America.