The “Big Three” networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) put their undying loyalty to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on full display Monday evening, as they completely blacked out two news stories with explosive consequences for the campaign. “Tonight there is a new undercover video exposing direct links between the Hillary Clinton campaign and outside groups promoting her campaign,” reported Fox News’ Bret Baier on Special Report. Instead of reporting on a potential federal offense they hyped Clinton’s expansion into GOP strongholds.
ABC started off its politics reports on World News Tonight with a three minute long story from Tom Llamas about how poorly Trump was performing, which was followed up with a Cecilia Vega report touting Senator Elizabeth Warren’s attack on Trump. NBC Nightly News led with Clinton fangirl Andrea Mitchell talking about how comfortable Clinton is with her lead, then pivoting to Katy Tur who mocked the GOP candidate. Reporter Major Garrett led CBS Evening News with Trump’s lack of time to turn the campaign around, then came Nancy Cordes who flaunted Clinton’s breathing room to help down ballot Democrats. Even Univision and Telemundo payed the controversy no mind.
But what they chose not to report is an apparent breach of federal election law prohibiting the communication between a campaign and outside groups.
Throughout the 2016 election cycle, a leftist political group called Americans United for Change had been following Trump around with a Donald Duck costume to protest his “ducking” with tax returns. “Project Veritas Action presents a hidden camera confession from Bob Creamer … in which Creamer purportedly reveals the mastermind behind the Donald Ducks campaign,” reported Fox News Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen. On the video Creamer, the founder of AUC, can be heard saying:
BOB CREAMER: In the end, it was the candidate, Hillary Clinton, the future president of the United States who wanted ducks on the ground, so, by God, we will get ducks on the ground … Don’t repeat that to anybody.
In addition, the networks continued to ignore how a long time Clinton confidant and Virginia Governor, Terry McAuliffe, gifted almost half a million dollars to the wife of an FBI agent leading the Clinton e-mail investigation. The money was for Dr. Jill McCabe’s 2015 Senate campaign, to which the Virginia Democratic Party also contributed over $200,000.
If the complete blackout of these highly damaging stories weren’t evidence enough of the networks’ bias in favor of Clinton, then what is? The combination of covering up the scandals in Clinton World and touting of Clinton’s campaign gains, while kicking Trump’s, exposes their liberal bias for the world to see.