See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
On Wednesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC did little to nothing to separate Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz from the unaffiliated Super PAC that ran an ad featuring a naked picture of Donald Trump’s wife Melania and instead chalked it up to a “nuclear war of words” representing more “shame” in “their nasty rivalry.”
ABC’s World News Tonight featured Republican campaign correspondent/Sunday anchor Tom Llamas hyped that “Trump and Cruz locked in a nuclear war of words over their wives” and specifically “anti-Trump super-PAC ad we had to blur” that resulted in Trump lashing out on Twitter Tuesday night and threatening Cruz’s wife Heidi.