Jeffrey Blehar writes for National Review Online about one amusing result of legacy media network ABC’s partisan bias.
Trump sued ABC News for defamation on March 19, and just yesterday ABC News announced a shockingly large settlement agreement: They will pay him a whopping $15 million — though as a face-saving gesture they are being allowed to pay it to his presidential library as opposed to Trump himself.
It’s all the more hilarious of a victory because I never saw it coming: Trump just got ABC News to agree to being one of the single largest corporate donors to the eventual Official Museum of MAGA Studies. They’re building his library! (To complete the victory, ABC will also cover Donald Trump’s attorneys’ fees, a concession that surely occasioned an enormous sigh of relief from Donald Trump’ attorneys.)
The instigating event actually took place on March 10, when South Carolina representative Nancy Mace appeared on ABC’s This Week. …
… Nowadays This Week is the province of diminutive ex–hatchet man George Stephanopoulos, a nasty little Dökkálfr who graduated from slandering groped women on behalf of Bill Clinton and his “bimbo eruptions” during the 1992 campaign to gently condescending to the nation in a grizzled sneer on Good Morning America — and did all this so quickly that nobody ever stopped to point out that he simulates genuine human warmth as convincingly as AI depicts floor gymnastics. Stephanopoulos has never pretended to be a journalist: He is a Democratic partisan who holds his position because of his unthreatening height and professional connections with establishment power brokers, not his insight or tendency to ask probing questions. …
… You owe it to yourself to watch the video to appreciate how Stephanopoulos’s sermonizing tone — as he is in the midst of incurring millions of dollars in legal damages — makes him so insufferable and the eventual outcome so satisfying. The fickle gods of irony must have been displeased and delighted in equal measure to see this sort of legally actionable ignorance from a man who used to gleefully destroy the names and reputations of his boss’s paramours (willing or otherwise) and who somehow managed to spin that gig into his present job.
