Jubilant ABC Obsesses Over ‘Tears of Joy’ for Hillary’s Nomination; ‘Still So Unknown to Many’

Curtis Houck | July 26, 2016
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Forgoing much of its regularly scheduled segments to cover live the official nomination of Hillary Clinton for president Tuesday night at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), ABC’s World News Tonight repeatedly harped in the most jittery mood possible about the DNC hall being in “tears” at Clinton becoming the first woman to be a major party’s presidential nominee. 

If that insanity wasn’t enough, anchor David Muir tried to spin for the Clintons ahead of former President Bill Clinton’s primetime speech by claiming that well-known and scandal-ridden Hillary is “[a] woman still so unknown to many in this country.”

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