Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) had no problem calling out ABC when he said that they just don’t care about how trustworthy its reporters - especially, regarding questions raised by news that ABC’s George Stephanopoulos' donated $75,000 dollars to the Clinton Foundation over the course of the last three years.
Appearing on two Fox News Channel shows, Sen. Lee said the scandal marks Stephanopoulos as less of a “neutral arbitrator” of the truth and more of a common politically-partisan pundit. It’s so outrageous, in fact, that Sen. Lee’s office tweeted that it doesn't want him appearing on ABC until Stephanopoulos removes himself from all presidential politics in the 2016 election cycle.
Sen. Lee also argues that Stephanopoulos has been bias in favoring the Clintons for decades and it has only become more evident with things such as this and his thinly-veiled assault on "Clinton Cash" author Peter Schweizer - where the ABC host grilled Schweizer about HIS political connections:
“[Stephanopoulos] got his start with the Clintons, a couple decades ago, in a prominent way. And the fact also is, that he has donated to the Clinton Foundation, $25,000 a year, each year, for the last three years in a row, a total of $75,000. And then finally, he caps it off by interviewing Peter Schweizer, the author of ‘Clinton Cash,’ and going after him, really quite aggressively and he does so, notwithstanding the fact that he’s pretty openly a Clinton partisan. He’s somebody who has helped the Clinton Foundation. He’s not in a position of being a neutral arbitrator of the facts, and so I do think this is a concern. And I do think that he shouldn’t be presenting himself to the world as a neutral arbiter of the facts in the presidential election cycle for 2016.”
“I think it certainly has the potential to call into question ABC’s ability to be objective. Look, the thought that kept coming to my mind when I watched that interview between George Stephanopoulos and Peter Schweizer was cross-examination. I felt like Mr. Schweizer was undergoing an aggressive, rigorous, cross-examination, not by someone who was just trying to get to the truth, but by someone who was trying to shoot down everything he could. And in fact, it was interesting, Sean [Hannity], he repeatedly referred to Mr Schweizer’s political connections.”
“ABC apparently, thus far, isn’t all that concerned about making sure that its reporters are trustworthy, making sure its reporters are neutral arbiters of the facts and are not partisans.”
See videos of Sen. Lee's two recent appearances on Fox News below: