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With both their Monday and Tuesday evening newscasts, the broadcast networks flashed just how they planned to protect the incoming Biden administration from all controversies it was sure to generate. One of their first tests was to defend radical liberal think tank operator Neera Tanden, who had been nominated to run the budget office. Avoiding her radical conspiracy theories about the 2016 election and her lack of ethics, the networks insisted Senate Republicans opposed her because of her tweets.
“But Tanden, who leads a liberal think tank and has skewered Republicans on Twitter, is already facing pushback,” announced ABC senior congressional correspondent and ardent Republican hater, Mary Bruce on Monday’s World News Tonight. “But Democrats blasted Republicans for complaining about mean tweets after four years of Donald Trump.”
After boasting about Tanden’s Indian heritage and her family’s use of “federally subsidized housing and food stamps” during Tuesday’s CBS Evening News, political correspondent Ed O’Keefe lamented that Tanden was “facing stiff Republican opposition for her sharp criticism of the GOP.”
NBC Nightly News managed to get a little closer to the truth Tuesday, but kept it at arm’s length. According to White House correspondent Peter Alexander, Tanden was “facing criticism from Republicans and some progressive Democrats for her outspoken views.”
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