ABC, NBC Swoop in to Defend Clinton from Trump’s ‘Bigot’ Remark

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 25, 2016
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The war of words in the 2016 race for president reached a new level Thursday when both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton accused one another of being a “bigot.” On CBS Evening News, fill-in anchor James Brown seemed disappointed in them, starting the show off saying, “The presidential campaign may have hit a low point today, and there are still 75 days to go.” While Brown seemed disappointed, both ABC and NBC took the opportunity to pounce on Trump and praise Clinton’s attacks.

Now, to the race for president, and a dark 24 hours,” announced ABC anchor David Muir on World News Tonight, “Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton a bigot.” Muir went on to describe Clinton’s own accusations of racism as her, “taking the stage and firing back.” And correspondent David Wright took it from there.

Today, Clinton made her case that it's Trump who has been running a racist campaign,” he reported while praising her attacks, “In some of her strongest language yet, she ran down the list … Using Trump's own words against him, she accused him of launching his run for the presidency with another "Racist lie" -- about Mexican immigrants.” Wright even played a clip from a Clinton campaign ad where an imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan talked about why they liked Trump.

On NBC Nightly News the reporting of the name calling was quite similar. “To presidential politics now and a day of explosive rhetoric on the campaign trail,” stated anchor Lester Holt, “Hillary Clinton unloading on Donald Trump in a blistering speech saying, quote, “he is taking hate groups mainstream and helping the radical fringe take over the Republican Party.”

And Clinton fangirl Andrea Mitchell pulled out all the stops in praising Clinton’s attacks. “After a week of playing defense Hillary Clinton arguing tonight that Donald Trump can soften his rhetoric and stick to a script but that he's helping a radical fringe advocating racist ideas,” she reported with glee, “Tonight Hillary Clinton going farther than ever before, painting Donald Trump as an extremist.

The liberal bias by ABC and NBC is blindingly obvious in this case. The fact that they defend Clinton from Trump’s accusations of bigotry while praising Clinton’s demonstrates what they really think of him. And they were brazen enough not to hide it, and even joined Clinton. 

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