Posted on 09/14/2024 3:23:13 PM PDT by John Semmens
An ABC News spokesperson vehemently asserted "we never gave the Harris campaign any debate questions in advance or helped her in any covert manner. Anyone who watched the debate saw for themselves that all of the assistance we gave to Vice-President Harris was overt. In the month prior to the debate 100% of our coverage of the Harris/Walz campaign was favorable. Meanwhile 93% of our coverage of the Trump/Vance campaign was unfavorable and 7% merely acknowledged known facts like Trump is a convicted felon."
ABC's Lindsey Davis admitted "in the Biden/Trump debate the CNN moderators allowed statements that weren't refuted by President Biden to go totally unaddressed. We vowed to not let this happen to Kamala in her debate. Anything she didn't refute was immediately refuted by a 'fact-check' from either David Muir or Linsey Davis. This threw Trump off topic and into complaining that he was being treated unfairly--something we felt would not gain much traction with voters concerned about inflation, open borders, and rampant crime."
Over at CNN, anchor Abby Phillip rallied to the defense of ABC's asymmetrical fact-checking, saying "all of Kamala's statements have been thoroughly vetted by all the major media and found to be free of any lies or inaccuracies. You don't find that kind of unity of opinion unless there is real truth behind it."
The New York Post editorial board disputed Phillip's contention and noted several untruths uttered by Harris during the debate. "Harris called Project 2025 Trump's plan of action. It is not. Harris said she's not going to confiscate everyone's guns. Her TV ads promise a mandatory gun buy-back program. Which, of course, will require people to surrender their guns to the government in exchange for what the government says will be a fair price. Harris said nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion. However, such abortions are legal in several states and are being carried out even to the point of denying life-saving medical care to babies who survive the abortion. Her TV ads promise she will implement a nationwide right to abortion if she is elected president. The real truth is that most media are unreliable sources for accurate information."
Mark Penn, a former top adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, called "fact-checking just one candidate and in effect, rigging the outcome of this debate merits a full internal investigation. Certainly, general media coverage of this election has been laughable. Instead of sticking to the facts and letting voters decide for themselves, the media have their finger on the scale in favor of the Harris/Walz ticket."
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Let them deny it while under oath in a trial.
We didn’t do it covertly… we were quite overt about it…
I’m sure ABC aka Always Broadcasting Crap treated both Trump and Kamala equally ... Bwhahahahahahaha
Nothing convert about it.
So we’re supposed to believe abc? ROTFL! It will be a cold day in hell.
It wasn’t covert. It was as overt as it could be
Note they’re not saying the Harris camp didn’t give abc questions.
I imagine it is another case of word semantics. They probably didn’t “give” anyone the questions. More likely they were just “accidentally” left out somewhere for a Harris lackey to snatch up.
I can see that scenario as well.
they can deny giving IneligibleHarris covert help because their backing for her is quite overt, thank you.
Always remember Slick Willie quibbled about what the meaning of “is” is. Slimy and grimey.
Any truth to the rumor that the ABC Whistleblower died in a car crash yesterday morning?
https://x.com/RetroCoast/status/1834635859775168989
Covertly, my Obamahole.
Who said it was covertly?
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