Posted on 07/11/2024 2:36:58 AM PDT by Libloather
George Stephanopoulos was threatened with being taken off air if he didn't clarify his position on Joe Biden's ability to serve another four years.
The ABC host gave his blunt assessment of the president's performance in a brief interview when he was ambushed on Tuesday.
The former Bill Clinton aide was asked on the street in Manhattan if Biden should step down and responded: 'I don't think he can serve four more years'.
Biden's interview with the former White House press secretary on Friday followed a disastrous debate performance on June 27.
Stephanopoulos, 63, appeared to quickly regret his off-the-cuff remark and offered a statement of regret.
'Earlier today I responded to a question from a passerby. I shouldn't have,' he said.
ABC News issued their own statement, saying, 'George expressed his own point of view and not the position of ABC News.'
What the two statements didn't reveal was the crisis Stephanopoulos' nine words kicked off at the highest level of the major network.
News division president Debra O'Connell called a panicked meeting with advisers and executives on Tuesday night, including public relations consultants.
'This was a fully-fledged crisis and it exploded with far-reaching reverberations,' an insider claimed to Radar Online.
She then hauled Stephanopoulos into a private meeting where she gave him an ultimatum: apologize or be yanked off air.
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George came this close to being indicted. The Mayor of NYC Eric Adams learned that the hard way after he dared to question King Bidens open border policy.
Girl Boss will be fired within a year. To be replaced by a new Girl Boss.
Little Georgie might be a horses arse, but he ain’t wrong about this... however... he’s being a chickenshit. He said it, he meant it, he should own it. He doesn’t need the money and he shouldn’t have backtrack. But... he’s a chickenshit, so this is to be expected. It’s what chickenshits do.
The only problem I have is that I firmly believe Biden needs to stay in the race, he needs to stay the course until absolutely the last possible moment or maybe even see his way through the election process. Because the DNC owns this dilemma, the DNC put the tax paying citizens through the mill on this, and now the DNC has a crazy problem - with a demented man who shouts at clouds.
Of Course! ….snort
clarify=do a 180
George Stuffinenvelopes
Poor commie bastards. Don’t know whether they’re comin or goin.
George’s “appearance if objectivity”?
Never break the con.
How fast the Biden storm troopers got to Georgie Boy and shut him up.
They must have played this clip for George
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxdPFLPAoPY
Because news organizations are all about objectivity 'n stuff.
What did Georgie do wrong? Give his honest opinion? Say something his bosses disagree with? Welcome to cancel culture.
“They must have played this clip for George
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxdPFLPAoPY“
George needs to get his mind right.
If ABC was not completely partisan, it wouldn’t matter what Stephanopilous said—it would just be his personal opinion.
Point being: They just announced to the world that their “news” is really propaganda.
George is a journalist cosplayer. He’s not a journalist and never had any objectivity - that’s why he was hired in the first place.
ABC Another Bad Choice
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