Clintonista Stephanopoulos desperate to condemn Trump
The article criticizes ABC’s George Stephanopoulos,a former Clinton spokesman,for his strongly anti-Trump commentary on the show *This Week*. Hosting the program for the first time as August 3, Stephanopoulos highlighted a range of negative developments involving President Donald Trump, including Trump’s remarks rebranding the Department of Defense as the “Department of War” and targeting the city of Chicago. The article suggests Stephanopoulos and other liberal media figures frequently emphasize anti-Trump rhetoric as a way to outdo rivals. It also notes that Stephanopoulos and ABC News previously settled a defamation lawsuit with Trump for $15 million.Despite presenting Trump’s week as full of challenges,recent polls indicate rising approval ratings for trump. Media Research Center’s brent baker is quoted saying Stephanopoulos regularly uses his platform to reaffirm his anti-trump stance, framing Trump’s actions negatively even amidst political gains.The article awards Stephanopoulos a “Liberal Media Scream” rating of four out of five for his critical coverage.
Clintonista Stephanopoulos desperate to condemn Trump: Liberal Media Scream
For TV news liberals, one-upping competitors while venting their anti-Trump bias seems a requirement, especially for the big shots who host the weekly public affairs shows.
Consider former Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos, who on Sunday was hosting ABC’s This Week for the first time since Aug. 3. Outdone on the Trump Derangement Syndrome spouted by the other hosts for weeks, notably CBS 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley’s regular editorial attacks on President Donald Trump, Stephanopoulos put on his serious face and listed all that was bad about the president’s week.
It was, he said, “a week of challenges,” and he cited several examples that have, in the findings of several pollsters, helped revive Trump’s approval ratings.
Stephanopoulos has been on the losing side of his fights with Trump for a while. Recall that in December, he and ABC News were ordered to apologize and pay $15 million in a Trump defamation lawsuit settlement.
For his one-sided, off-base rant, Stephanopoulos wins our weekly Liberal Media Scream.
Stephanopoulos at the top of ABC’s This Week on Sunday:
“On Friday, President Trump rebranded the Department of Defense the ‘Department of War.’ Saturday, he announced the department’s first target, an American city. The President’s words: ‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning. Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of War.’ A chorus of criticism followed, including this from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D): ‘The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal.’
“And this chilling threat from President Trump comes after a week of challenges: Friday’s weak jobs report, on Capitol Hill a bipartisan grilling for [Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.], and a demand for transparency from Jeffrey Epstein’s victims; China’s display of diplomatic skill and military force and Russia’s rebuff of another Trump deadline on the war in Ukraine.”
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Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Stephanopoulos pops up every month or so to host This Week (he last hosted on Aug. 3) and seems bent each time on re-proving his anti-Trump bonafides. He did it again Sunday, framing in the worst possible light Trump’s efforts to save lives in Chicago and then proceeding to paint a world closing in on Trump — all in a week when Trump’s approval got an up bounce.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
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