ABC’s Nightline Skewers GOP Debate as ‘Reality Show where the Stakes Couldn’t Be Higher’

Curtis Houck | November 11, 2015
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Without a hint of irony, the most superficial network news show in ABC’s Nightline mocked Tuesday’s Fox Business Network Republican debate on their early Wednesday morning installment as nothing more than a “reality show” along the lines of The Bachelor and Survivor “where the stakes couldn’t be higher.”

Leading off the show, correspondent David Wright hyped that the fourth debate in Wisconsin was “a reality show where the stakes couldn't be higher” in a larger race where “[t]his time next year right about now, in fact, one of the apprentices on that stage will either win 270 electoral votes....or not, one year from this week, it's all over.”