The “Big Three” networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) found yet another topic to distract themselves from talking about issues damaging to Democrats Wednesday evening. “Trump's message today, overshadowed by the man in the front row,” explained ABC’s Tom Llamas on World News Tonight, “Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, fresh off his explosive interview with Megyn Kelly.” According to the nets the argument was more important than corruption, leaked e-mails, or videos showing admission to federal crimes.
Llamas’ segment last over three minutes with most of it sounding like a blow-for-blow recap of a boxing match. “Megyn Kelly, who pressed him on the ten women accusing Donald Trump of sexual misconduct… Gingrich then unloading… The former house speaker trying to force Kelly to take on Bill Clinton… Trump welcoming Gingrich like a conquering hero,” Llamas said. He even hyped a threatening tweet from a Trump aide, “‘Megyn Kelly made a total fool out of herself tonight, attacking Donald Trump. Watch what happens to her after this election is over.’”
CBS Evening News only discussed it briefly, while NBC Nightly News on the other hand dedicated an entire report to the argument and declared it a symptom of the Republican Party turning itself off to women voters. “The GOP nominee clearly pleased with what he heard from one of his top surrogates, even if some Republican women are not,” stated NBC’s Hallie Jackson.
The Kelly/Gingrich argument gave the liberal networks just the smokescreen they need to avoid actually reporting damaging news about Hillary Clinton and other Democrats.
All three of the networks still have yet to mention any of the videos released by Project Veritas even though there has been a new video released every day this week. In one video, Democratic operative Bob Creamer is heard talking about having communication with the Hillary Clinton campaign, a violation of federal law. They instead continued to hype her leads in key battleground states and confidence in the race.
They continued to keep the perjury sentencing of a highly corrupt Democratic Attorney General from Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, out of their broadcasts. The AG in question is Kathleen Kane a former “raising star” in the party and former staffer to Hillary in 2008.
ABC, in particular, extended its blackout of the recently released WikiLeaks e-mail that suggested that President Barack Obama had lied to the public when he claimed he didn’t know about Clinton’s private e-mail server. A study by the Media Research Center’s Mike Ciandella discovered that all of the networks prefer to keep such e-mail leaks out of sight and out of mind.
It is clear that the liberal networks will use any excuse to not cover controversies that have a chance to sink Democrats. They even admit to it and hide behind the claim that Donald Trump’s and Republican controversies are many times worse. They believe that because they’re biased against them to begin with.