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With a week to go until the scheduled Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to interview Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford, the liberal media were frantically trying to paint the proceedings as misogynistic Republican men beating up on an innocent victim. Both ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News spent a whole segment during their Tuesday broadcasts stoking those fears.
To kick off the segment on ABC, sensationalist anchor David Muir hyped the pressure ahead of the hearing and seemed to warn Republican Senators that their seats may be on the line if they don’t treat Ford right:
[T]he stakes are enormous here, for the nominee, for the President, and for Senators from both parties who know constituents back home are watching this very closely, with opinions on both sides. How will this accuser be treated if she does testify?
If that wasn’t enough to set ABC’s tone against Republicans, congressional correspondent Mary Bruce hyped the “moment of reckoning” by touting Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono (D) lashing out at all American men. “I just want to say to the men in this country, just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change,” the Senator shouted at a press conference.
Bruce seemed to scoff at the idea that “Republican leaders insist they're giving Christine Blasey Ford an opportunity to be heard in public before the Judiciary Committee next Monday.” There was noticeable disdain in her voice when she reported the composition of the Judicial Committee: “If Ford does agree to testify, she and Judge Kavanaugh would be the only witnesses, fielding questions from 10 Democrats and 11 Republicans. All of the Republicans, men.”
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