Scott Whitlock:
For the second day in a row, Good Morning America on Wednesday devoted a full report to investigating Vance McAllister, the married “Louisiana Republican” who was caught on camera kissing a staffer. On Tuesday, the show’s reporters made sure to remind viewers that the Congressman involved in the alleged affair is a “conservative” and “Republican.” Yet, Democratic controversies have largely been ignored or downplayed by the network.
Despite the news that a House committee plans to ask the Justice Department to charge former top IRS official Lois Lerner, ABC skipped the development and hasn’t mentioned the scandal-plagued bureaucrat since March 5, 2014. (That occasion was only to highlight Democrat Elijah Cummings complaining about the unfairness of the hearings. Excluding this incident, Lerner’s name was last uttered on May 24, 2013.)
On March 5, 2014. Josh Elliott quickly summarized the latest on the investigation:
JOSH ELLIOTT: Former IRS official Lois Lerner once again refused to answer questions about the targeting of Tea Party groups before the last presidential election. Lerner ran the IRS division that targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, but pleaded the fifth. Just moments later, however, fireworks erupted when Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings said he had a question but was cut off.
This was the last mention on ABC of the IRS scandal.
Including stories on Nightline and World News, ABC has identified Congressman McAllister’s GOP affiliation four times in two days.
The same network gave just a scant nine seconds on March 27 to the arrest of Leeland Yee, an aggressive gun control advocate and a Democratic candidate for state-wide office in California. He has been accused of trafficking guns. GMA’s Amy Robach briefly noted, “And a California lawmaker who pushed for gun control has been arrested in a gun trafficking scheme. State Senator Leland Yee is fighting those charges.”
Unsurprisingly, Robach ignored Yee’s political affiliation.
Taking the risk that I’m turning into a crank on the MSM…is anybody surprised? ABCBSNBCNNPRPBS are part and parcel of the Democrat party. And to rub salt into the wound…NPR/PBS gets taxpayer dollars!
I think the GOP was crazy to turn the presidential debates over to these people. Dumb. Candy Crowley, George Stepawhatshisface, Diane Sawyer and company greased the skids for Obama’s second term. Lord…what a dumb party the Republicans are.
The MSM is a Dem propaganda machine.
@VoteOutIncumbents: “I think the GOP was crazy to turn the presidential debates over to these people.” Even THAT served a useful purpose when (too much) Candy Crowley lept to the defense of Obama when Romney had him staggered with Benghazi questions. Who (aside from the ranks of rabid, “get those facts out of my face” liberals”… well, all of them, I guess) can still deny the rabid MSM partisanship in full favor of the liberal ideology?
Honestly not sure if he is a RINO or Not…? But all that matters to the MSM is that he has ‘Republican’ attached to his name…
Shouldn’t surprise anyone…as proven, the MSM don’t know much about anything else in order to create honest debate…never mind ‘honest media’ they spend most of their on air time ‘covering’ for ‘the one’ as well as pulling the wool over the eyes of the low fo viewers…and creating division in this country….so they must rely on… ooh..this.., as ‘breaking fodder’ just goes to show how truly small their lives, their minds and their ‘reality’ really is…
I don’t condone this…however I will say at this point…
So long as he is not stealing any of my rights or stealing my money….he is the least of our problems…