ABC, CBS Celebrate Fox News Town Hall Crowd Cheering Medicare For All

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 16, 2019
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As if it somehow sank the conservative agenda or upended a Fox News narrative, the ABC and CBS Tuesday evening news programs hailed the heavily Democratic Fox News town hall audience that cheered for Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All healthcare plan.

It was clear during ABC’s World News Tonight that they were going to twist the cheering crowd as proof that even Republicans supported government controlled healthcare. “Now, to the race for 2020 tonight, and the fiery town hall. Bernie Sanders on Fox News. And the question about health care in America, it drew a huge response from the audience,” hyped sensationalist anchor David Muir.

ABC congressional correspondent Mary Bruce was full of energy as she explained how Sanders was “at a town hall on the President's favorite network” and “asked voters to embrace one of his most progressive ideas: Medicare for all.”

She played a soundbite of town hall co-moderator Brett Baier conducting an impromptu poll of the Pennsylvania audience to see support for Sanders’ plan.

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