ABC Hypes Hillary Super PAC's 'Counter-Convention' Hammering Trump

Matthew Balan | July 18, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

The Big Three networks' evening newscasts on 17 July 2016 all spotlighted Hillary Clinton's speech to the NAACP's annual convention in Cincinnati. ABC's Cecilia Vega touted the Democrat's "political trolling" of Donald Trump, and played up how "Clinton's supporters waging a counter-convention of their own — a pro-Clinton super PAC...linking Trump to former KKK leader David Duke." CBS's Nancy Cordes contrasted Clinton's NAACP appearance with a detail about the racial makeup of the Republican National Convention: "Only about 20 of the 2,500 delegates are black, which is on par with the party's percentage at its convention back in 1964."