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As NewsBusters documented last fall, both ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News attacked the politically engaged and angry parents in Virginia by claiming they were motivated by Republican Glenn Youngkin’s racist siren song. But in the wake of parents recalling the school board (by a landslide) in extremely liberal San Francisco on Wednesday, NBC kept to the false narrative while ABC suddenly had a change of heart when it came to this Democratic political action.
Leading into the segment, NBC anchor Lester Holt seemed displeased with this brand of local politics. “In San Francisco, a stunning landslide vote in the hyper, local politics playing out in that city and beyond. Three school board commissioners voted out. The latest example of this local political activism sweeping the nation,” he whined.
The report was delivered by tech correspondent Jake Ward who called the recall a “historic vote” and “once-in-a-generation.”
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