The former president was kinder to Muir.
“I always liked him,” he said of the “World News Tonight” anchor. “I’m not going to watch him anymore. Because he’s not legit … And his hair is not as good as it used to be.”
Posted on 09/13/2024 10:50:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
ABC News anchor Linsey Davis revealed in a post-debate Los Angeles Times puff-piece profile how she, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC producers schemed to ambush President Trump with ‘fact checks’ at Tuesday night’s presidential debate in Philadelphia with Kamala Harris after watching Trump crush and knock Joe Biden out of the race in their June debate.
The fact checking at the debate was one-sided, with Trump being interrupted by Muir and Davis several times with ‘fact checks’ while Harris was not ‘fact checked’ once.
Going into the debate, there was concern about Harris’ friendship with a Disney executive who oversees the ABC News division (NY Post excerpt):
Dana Walden, a senior Disney executive whose portfolio includes ABC News, is one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ “extraordinary friends,” according to a report in the New York Times.
Walden and Harris have known each other since 1994, while their husbands, Matt Walden and Doug Emhoff, have known each other since the 1980s.
Dana Walden has donated to dozens of Democrats and contributed to Harris’ political campaigns since at least 2003, when she ran for district attorney in San Francisco.
She went on to donate to her subsequent campaigns for California attorney general and US Senate, as well as her 2020 White House bid.
Harris even credited Dana and Matt for her marriage at a fundraiser in April 2022, which was held at Walden’s home in Los Angeles.
ABC told the New York Times that Walden, who is Disney’s highest-ranking television executive, does not weigh in on editorial decisions.
After the debate it was revealed that ABC did not disclose that Davis is an Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sister of Harris.
Davis went viral for a ‘fact check’ of Trump on abortion, where she falsely claimed it is illegal to kill babies after they are born and then abruptly turned to Harris for a reply without giving Trump the courtesy of a chance to respond.
In actuality, babies who survive abortions in the home state of Harris’ vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D), are allowed to be left to die without lifesaving care–thanks to Walz.
The comments by then Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) referenced by Trump:
The day after the debate, Davis proudly gushed to the Los Angeles Times how the scheme to ambush Trump was put in action (excerpt):
...Davis, wearing pink glasses while speaking to The Times over breakfast at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, said the decision to attempt to correct the candidates was in response to the June 27 CNN debate between Trump and President Biden, whose poor performance led to his exit from the race.
“People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators,” Davis said.
Muir and Davis divided up the topics to study, and Davis fully anticipated that Trump’s erroneous abortion claim would come up when she questioned him on the issue.
“That was an obvious thing to get on the record,” Davis said.
In the weeks before the debate, various scenarios were played out in table read-like settings where the anchors and ABC News producers tested their questions and played out the possible responses.
Trump sharply criticized the ABC moderators in remarks at a rally in Tucson, Arizona on Thursday, reported The Hill (excerpt):
Trump held an event in Tucson, Ariz., where his campaign said he would deliver remarks focused on the economy and rising costs. He spent the first 15 minutes recapping his Tuesday debate with Harris and repeatedly targeted ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, at one point calling for the two to be fired.
“The public was not fooled. They saw right through it, Kamala’s lies and unprecedented partisan interference of two low-life anchors. They’re low lives,” Trump said, bemoaning that the moderators fact-checked a few of his inaccurate statements but didn’t do the same for Harris.
“These two people were bad news. They kept screaming at me,” Trump added.
Trump called Davis, who is Black, “nasty” and claimed she looked at the former president “with hatred in her eyes.”
The former president was kinder to Muir.
“I always liked him,” he said of the “World News Tonight” anchor. “I’m not going to watch him anymore. Because he’s not legit … And his hair is not as good as it used to be.”
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Maybe they are waving their arms enough to get a real news source to report it.
Here’s something...
ABC should lose its license for 10 years,
and they should be tried for treason.
No one should be surprised, but Trump MUST use these facts and repeat them all the time.
They already admitted in 2016 that they have the questions to Hillary.
It’s one thing to call out ABC on this but this lies directly at the feet of Bob Iger and BobIgerCorp(R) that is once again doing political activism to actively harm and destroy America.
“Trump called Davis, who is Black, “nasty””
Is that off limits, even if true?
I have to keep reminding myself every time I think that a “news” channel can’t sink lower than CNN, that there’s always ABC.
I guess they claim that they aren’t really killing babies if they just leave them to die on their own. But they’d call the cops on you if you did that to a puppy or kitten.
Most of them generally are if they are in the Press..
The former president was kinder to Muir.
“I always liked him,” he said of the “World News Tonight” anchor. “I’m not going to watch him anymore. Because he’s not legit … And his hair is not as good as it used to be.”
It’s just the “guardrails” of “our democracy”.
Kamala can’t even claim that distinction (letting a baby die by ne GG I ect vs outright killing it) because she protected abortionists caught on Daleiden’s tape planning to allow late term babies to be born alive intact so they could butcher them and sell the body parts. I suppose it would be argued that they’d get the mother’s consent to have the parts “donated” and the abortionist would charge a lucrative “collector’s fee”. Semantics to cover up butchering fully born children. This is a prime chance for the real truth to get out.
I saw earlier where someone ran the entire debate through Grok or some other AI and asked it to analyze the transcript for biases. It returned four major biases by the moderators. The one-sided fact checks, the tone of voice, and the lack of follow-ups for Harris after she failed to answer questions. The final was Harris’ position on the stage, but as I recall that was determined by coin flip.
CertainlyNotNews and AlwaysBullCrapNews.
This....and MUCH MUCH more was in the works. And after the fact, too.
Virtually everything you see from MSNBC, CBS, ABC et al are supposed ruffled women journalists sniping on some little nuance word, or deed by Trump on the debate stage. If you want to call it something, call it a Misandrist Massacre, even aided by that d!ckless David Muir.
She was given the questions. She was coaxed by some Hollywood wonk on silent film facial expressions. She had blue tooth earrings. And she had the help of the infamous one-sided fact checker brigade.
It SHOWED the world what kind of job she could do as President, apparently none of it herself without massive help from her ‘friends’ in journalism.
It showed precisely why she isn’t the President now. [she and the machine could have rightfully easily 25th’d Biden months ago after his dementia debate but didn’t] This is why. She’d have already shown the world just how incompetent she really is and there’d still be time enough for an election to remedy that error.
The two abc dildoes used Kamarella for bait and she allowed them to do it. Worthless POS idiot.
Excellent points!
Then helicopters.
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