ABC Asks Kaine About Kaepernick, Skips His Call to Jail Hillary

September 1st, 2016 11:39 AM
To end a friendly interview with Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, Good Morning America anchor (and former Clinton White House Communications Director and Clinton Foundation donor) George Stephanopoulos asked a softball question about football – but conveniently left out the part of the story criticizing Hillary.
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Stephanopoulos Gushes Over Obama Date Film: Will Prez Like It?

August 23rd, 2016 11:30 AM
Former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos good barely restrain himself on Tuesday as he gushed over a new movie about the first date between Barack and Michelle Obama. Talking to the stars of Southside With You, he hyped the film as focusing “on one day in the summer of 1989 when Michelle and Barack Obama went out for the first time.”
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CNBC’s Kernen Knocks George Stephanopoulos for Pro-Clinton Bias

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August 22nd, 2016 5:25 PM
When CNBC’s Joe Kernen calls someone out for liberal bias, it is usually one of his colleagues. This time, he hit ABC This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos. “I love when Steph goes after the Republicans, man. He's tough. He is tough. Whew,” Kernen remarked sarcastically in a jab at the ABC News’ chief anchor on Squawk Box Aug. 22.
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ABC Discloses Yankees Fan, But Not Clinton Foundation Donor

August 21st, 2016 12:05 PM
ABC demonstrated a marvelous case of hypocrisy on Sunday when it comes to its transparency and perhaps conflicts of interest. On Good Morning America, anchor Dan Harris joked that correspondent Ron Claiborne "can barely hide his lack of objectivity when it comes to the Yankees” after a sports report. However, during ABC's This Week, moderator George Stephanopoulos failed to re-disclose his…
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NBC Hypes GOP ‘Civil War,’ Continues to Ignore Major Firings at DNC

August 3rd, 2016 11:39 AM
For the second day in a row, NBC on Wednesday ignored the high level firings at the Democratic National Committee. Politico hyped it as “heads roll at the DNC.” Yet, the four hour-long Today show found no time for it. Instead, reporter Hallie Jackson trumpeted a “civil war” within the Republican Party. 
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ABC Hypes Claim That George Stephanopoulos ‘Inspired’ JFK Jr.

August 1st, 2016 5:08 PM
The media’s love for the Kennedy family displayed itself in a new way on Monday. Rosemarie Terenzio, a producer on the new documentary I Am JFK Jr., appeared to tell Robin Roberts that her Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos “inspired” John F. Kennedy Jr. Terenzio, who was a personal assistant to the younger Kennedy, insisted, “George Stephanopoulos was sort of the for the kernel…
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TV's Convention News: Condemning Republicans, Cheering Democrats

July 29th, 2016 12:45 PM
With both the Republican and Democratic conventions now concluded, it’s time to judge the news media on how fairly they covered the two parties. Media Research Center analysts looked at various aspects of coverage, all of which demonstrate that journalists obviously favored the Democratic gathering.
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‘Here We Are!’ ABC Loses It Over Hillary's ‘One Historic Moment’

July 28th, 2016 11:27 PM
Opening their Thursday night coverage of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), ABC’s voice-over announcer couldn’t help but produce one last gushing pump-up video as he proclaimed “here we are” for “[t]his one historic moment in front of America” and the on-air personalities applauded Chelsea Clinton emphasizing Hillary as a grandmother.
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Nets Gush: ‘Preacher’ Obama ‘at His Best,’ ‘a Chorus of Amens’

July 28th, 2016 1:04 AM
The journalists at ABC, CBS and NBC were beside themselves with gushing praise of Barack Obama’s address to the Democratic National Convention, Wednesday. Immediately after his speech, they hailed the President as a “preacher" and a “powerful” "lawyer." Offering the most effusive cheering, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley lauded, “Barack Obama in full Sunday meeting mode, preaching to a choir…
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Nets Go Crazy for ‘Suburban Dad’ Tim Kaine’s ‘Spanish Lesson’ at DNC

July 28th, 2016 12:36 AM
Despite it drawing nowhere near the same levels of enthusiasm that other speeches drew in the 2016 Democratic National Convention (DNC) thus far, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC went into full spin mode late Wednesday hailing vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine’s personality as a “suburban dad” whose “extraordinary” Spanish-speaking skills made for “a Spanish lesson down here.”
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Nets Applaud ‘Vintage’ Bill Clinton; Like Hearing a 'Story at a Bar'

July 27th, 2016 12:35 AM
On Tuesday night, the major broadcast networks were quick to laud former President Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) as “heartwarming” and “the most important speech of his life” featuring “vintage Bill” that was akin to him “telling a family story at bar or around the dinner table at a holiday.”  
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Networks Laud ‘Artfully Painted,’ ‘Remarkable’ Michelle Obama Speech

July 26th, 2016 1:12 AM
The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC were hard pressed for time on Monday night to comment on speeches at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) by Senators Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (Vt.), but there was time after First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech to gush over her “artfully painted” address featuring “trademark...grace” in attacking Donald Trump.
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Awkward: ABC, CNN Reintroduce Analyst Donna Brazile as DNC Chair

July 25th, 2016 3:28 PM
Longtime Democratic operative Donna Brazile being named interim head of the Democratic National Committee on Sunday following the ouster of chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz amid the DNC e-mail scandal created some awkward moments for CNN and ABC. Hosts on both networks had to explain that Brazile was stepping down as a political analyst as she took over the new partisan position.
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GMA Guest: Clintons' Epic Romance, a Scene Out of 'Gone With the Wind'

July 25th, 2016 11:12 AM
To kick off the Democratic National Convention, ABC had an enthusiastic Clinton fan and biographer, Gail Sheehy, as a guest on their morning show. If you remember last week, Good Morning America took a decidedly different approach when they brought on a liberal anti-Trump guest on the first day of the Republican National Convention. Anchors George Stephanopoulos and Robin Roberts sat enraptured…