ABC, NBC Decry Trump’s Call for Civility, Refusal to Take Blame for Bombs

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 25, 2018
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President Trump and the White House refused to bow to the liberal media’s assertions that he was the one responsible for bombs sent to CNN and other Democrats this week. In response, the liberal media spend most of Thursday throwing a temper tantrum. During ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News, the broadcast networks were clearly irritated as they took shot after shot at the President.

“And we have to stress, we don't know who sent these bombs or why they sent them,” prefaced NBC anchor Lester Holt before attacking Trump for requesting the media turn down their rhetoric. “President Trump yesterday called for peace and harmony and then almost immediately returned to attacks on the news media.

The report was then handed over to bitter White House correspondent Peter Alexander and he began by complaining about Trump’s morning tweet criticizing the media for refusing to tone down their hate:

Even as police investigated another suspicious package, President Trump this morning on Twitter blaming the press for causing “a very big part of the anger we see today in our society.” “It's gotten so bad and hateful”, he tweets, adding “mainstream media must clean up its act, fast.”

Demonstrating how divorced from reality he was, Alexander asserted that Trump’s request that people stop referring to each other as “historical villains” (like Adolf Hitler) was somehow a “swipe at Democrats”. Since Hitler was one of the liberal media’s favorite comparison to use against Trump, it might have been an accidental admission of bias by NBC.

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