Nets that Were Obsessed GOP ‘Civil War’ Can’t Be Bothered By Dem Divide

Nicholas Fondacaro | June 9, 2021
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For the past couple of days, moderate Democratic Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona were experiencing the full wrath of the far-left wing of their party after the pair refused to do away with the filibuster and pass the deceptively titled “For the People Act.” But the same evening newscasts that were obsessed with stoking the so-called “Civil War” in the Republican Party couldn’t be bothered to report on the chasm on the left.

As a NewsBusters study discovered back in May, over a two-week period, the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC spent a total of 32 minutes and 53 seconds going on about Congresswoman Liz Cheney (WY) getting ousted from Republican leadership in the House. That’s not to mention how they spent the Trump years relishing the infighting and promoting the Never Trumpers.

Now, on Tuesday, doing what the liberal networks refused to do, Fox News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram spent part of Special Report highlighting how “A canyon yawns between liberals and moderates. It threatens to shred the Democratic coalition and stunt the rest of their agenda.”

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