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Tuesday night, NewsBusters asked if the broadcast networks would care to cover the newly revealed police body camera video featuring Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock (D) as they responded to a domestic dispute. Despite the alleged incident being contemporaneous and had video from the police response, ABC, CBS, and NBC omitted the story from their flagship morning and evening news programs in the 24-hours since the story broke on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight.
There’s no doubt that if either of the Republicans running in the Georgia Senate race (Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Purdue) were involved in a domestic dispute, it would be the media’s new flavor of the week to use against them.
Luckily, Fox News spent Wednesday repeatedly highlighting the body camera video they uncovered. “I've tried to keep the way he acts under wraps for a long time, and today he crossed the line. So, that is what is going on here. He is a great actor, he is phenomenal at putting on a really good show,” Ouleye Warnock can be heard saying to the Atlanta police officer.
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