Moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis of ABC News delivered a frankly disgusting performance during the September presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The network had agreed that there would be no fact checks and no interruptions, yet the partisan duo proceeded to do exactly that.
In fact, Trump was fact-checked at least five times, while Harris was left to say whatever the heck she wanted (much of it lies).
RedState didn’t hold back on what we thought of the tag-team event:
Quiet Part Out Loud? ABC Debate Co-Moderator Makes Eye-Opening Admission on Why They Fact-Checked Trump
Candy Crowley Is No Longer the Worst Presidential Debate Moderator of All Time
RFK Jr. Blasts Kamala, Biased Debate Moderators; Says ‘the Party That I Grew Up in Doesn’t Exist Anymore’
Perhaps the most infamous moment came when Muir, using his most arrogant, self-important tone, interrupted Trump on crime statistics. Yes, the former president fought back and tried to explain why Muir was wrong, but the mission had already been accomplished: they wanted to interrupt Trump’s flow, have him go off on some sideline that wasn’t germane to the argument he was making—and they succeeded. If this were Kamala Harris using these tactics, that would have been fine—she’s supposed to be trying to trip him up—but to have the supposedly unbiased neutral “moderators” join forces with Kamala was quite simply unethical.
Flashback: David Muir “fact checks” President Trump by saying FBI data shows violent crime was down.
Trump compared it to the 818,000 job downward revision.
Turns out, yet again, that Trump was right.
Will Trump get an apology? pic.twitter.com/j6SASC3GYO
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) October 16, 2024
Of course, Trump was right, and Muir was wrong. The FBI, whose reputation was already in tatters, just demeaned themselves even more by quietly releasing new statistics showing that rather than the 2.1 percent decrease they’d reported, it was actually a 4.5 percent increase. Oops.
RedState’s Bonchie: SURPRISE: The FBI Just Stealth-Edited Its Violent Crime Rate, Blows Up Democrat and Press Narrative
Yeah. The crime rate went up, not down.
But while Mr. Muir may be at his $7 million dollar home on Skaneateles Lake, New York, busily eating crow for dinner, has he apologized to Trump, to the American people, to anybody? According to reports, the cat has got his tongue:
Muir has yet to acknowledge the FBI’s stat change on “World News Tonight,” according to Grabien transcripts.
ABC News did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
“Did not immediately respond.” Meaning, they’re cowering like cats in a rainstorm.
I wondered in a piece Friday why this election is apparently so close—despite a majority of voters reporting that they are worse off than they were four years ago. One of my conclusions: the lying mainstream media has played a huge role in dumbing down the American voter.
…the mainstream media lies to the American people regularly, and basically is an arm of the Democrat party. As much progress as we’ve made with conservative media, a huge portion of people still rely on legacy outlets and blindly vacuum up whatever they’re told. I know members of my own family who wouldn’t argue over the articles and facts we print here at RedState—they would just deny those facts even existed. “I didn’t see that,” they’d say, as if that made it not true.
Muir’s needless interjection into a historic and potentially history-defining debate was appalling at the time, but this new information makes him and his network look even worse. It would be nice to see him man up to it, but manning up is not something we see too often these days coming from the Democrat party/corporate media cabal.
Meanwhile, I don’t often praise Saturday Night Live, but their version of the conceited moderator had some funny moments (especially at the beginning where Mr. “I’m So Handsome” preens and laughs about his obvious bias):
Harris and Trump Rallies Cold Open – SNL
News anchor David Muir (Andrew Dismukes) checks in with Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph), Tim Walz (Jim Gaffigan), Doug Emhoff (Andy Samberg), Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), JD Vance (Bowen Yang) and Joe Biden (Dana Carvey) at Harris’… pic.twitter.com/DDtdRpslVI
— StrictlyKamala🥥 🇺🇦🌻 (@StrictlyChristo) September 29, 2024
