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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KABAM!
ABC is going to missout on the Biden campaign advertising.
Which all the more properly labels him as a craven coward
You should send that reply to the Bee.
Telling the truth is a crisis? That tells you all you need to know about the media. They are corrupt!
Cockroaches need to be reminded on occasion from where the crumbs they feed on fall.
Stepinpoopagain makes more in a day than most people make in a year...
ha ha disney got their pantys in a twist...
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