After a left wing lunatic tried to assassinate Republican members of Congress while they were practicing for a charity baseball game during the summer of 2017, CBS News anchor Scott Pelley opened the broadcast that night saying the attack may have been “self-inflicted.”833 Congressman Tom Reed of New York denounced Pelley’s comments as “beyond the pale” and said they “further proved that the Mainstream Media has completely lost any moral compass to guide its journalistic endeavors.” Reed added, “Mr. Pelley should be ashamed of himself for doing the despicable deed of blaming the victim. He should never be employed in the media again by any forum or entity.”834
The story of the ambush of Republican Congressmen on the baseball field was quickly dropped, because the liberal media didn’t want people to keep using it as an example that their constant bombardment of fake news painting Donald Trump and his supporters as the resurgence of Hitler’s Third Reich had incited a mentally unstable liberal to attempt to assassinate a group of Congressmen.
It might be interesting for people to know that the major shareholder of CBS’s parent company Viacom is Sumner Redstone, who was once caught on tape trying to convince a reporter to reveal their source about an embarrassing leak within MTV (one of his networks). On the tape he can be heard saying, “We’re not going to kill him. We just want to talk to him.”835 Redstone, who was 87-years-old at the time, also told the reporter he will be “well-rewarded and well-protected” if he gave up his source.836 That’s the kind of man who has been in control of CBS for decades◦— a man who bribes reporters in order to reveal their sources when they publish a report damaging to the network or their affiliates.
ABC News
Almost every single night, ABC News puts a liberal spin on their stories and carefully chooses topics that will further their cause, but ABC has also staged crime scenes, deceptively edited clips to give the opposite impression of what people said, and have been sued for almost two billion dollars by a company claiming their false stories destroyed their business.837
One shocking example of fake news on ABC was when a reporter set up her own “police line” for a live shot to make it look like she was reporting right in front of the crime scene with the yellow police tape swaying in the wind right behind her. They would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for some locals who came out to witness the report and posted pictures online showing that the producers had put up their own police tape by tying it onto two different tripods that were off camera and out of the frame.838
After Dr. Drew expressed he was quite concerned about Hillary Clinton’s health problems as the 2016 election approached, KABC Radio (a division of ABC Broadcasting) deleted the webpage about his interview in an apparent attempt to protect Hillary from the negative publicity it was generating. “Based on the information that she has provided and her doctors have provided, we were gravely concerned not just about her health, but her health care,” Dr. Drew said, giving more ammunition to those who were raising concerns about her diminishing health.839
The following week his show on CNN’s sister station HLN, which had been on the air for five years, was canceled. Even the liberal Washington Post couldn’t help but see the connection and published a story with the headline, “‘Dr. Drew’ show canceled days after host’s negative speculation about Hillary Clinton’s health.”840 He was also called a “conspiracy theorist” for thinking her health was failing and was labeled a “Hillary Clinton Health Truther.”841 Just two weeks later she completely collapsed and had to be carried away by her staff, confirming what many had been concerned about for some time.
ABC anchor and chief political correspondent George Stephanopoulos used to work as Bill Clinton’s former communications director so he can’t pretend to be an objective journalist when he was literally on the payroll of the Clintons and even donated $75,000 dollars to them through their sham charity. When his donation was discovered he apologized for not disclosing it to ABC News and its viewers.842 He was then forced to drop out from moderating one of the Republican presidential primary debates. Despite the obvious conflict of interest caused by him donating tens of thousands of dollars to the Clintons, ABC News called it “an honest mistake.”843
After President Trump’s controversial travel ban was blocked by an injunction from an activist judge appointed by President Obama, an Iraqi immigrant named Hameed Darweesh, who had just arrived to JFK airport in New York, was interviewed by the media. He was very gracious and said America is the greatest nation in the world and that he was happy to be here, but that’s where ABC cut the clip they posted online. What they didn’t show was that immediately after that, someone asked him, “What do you want to say to Donald Trump?” trying to tee him up to denounce the president’s new travel screening.
Instead of criticizing the president, he responded that he likes Trump and was very understanding of the extensive screening he had to go through before being allowed into the United States.844 If ABC showed him saying that he didn’t have a problem with the increased travel restrictions, that would have contradicted the narrative the media was pushing at the time which was that it was ‘anti-Muslim bigotry’ and ‘government-sanctioned discrimination.’845
ABC issued an apology for deceptively editing former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleisher’s comments about Trump’s first few days in office after they cut him off mid-sentence in order to cast him in a false light. In a segment where ABC was complaining about the newly inaugurated president, Ari was shown saying, “It looks to me if the ball was dropped on Saturday,” talking about the way Sean Spicer handled criticism about the size of the crowd at Trump’s inauguration.846 The newscast continued to nitpick Trump’s first week as president but after the segment aired, Fleisher tweeted, “Nightline proves Spicer right about MSM’s [mainstream media’s] dedication to negativity,” adding, “If this is how the press reports, Trump is right to go after them.” He concluded, “When the press distorts someone’s quote and twists their words, we all have a problem.”847
He said they twisted his words because they left out the rest of his sentence when he said, “Sean recovered it and ran for a 1st down on Monday.” After being called out by Fleisher on the deception, ABC issue an on-air apology, saying, “Nightline aired a segment Monday night about the first three days of the new administration including Sean Spicer’s statement to the press on Saturday. As part of the report, we interviewed former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer. In editing the piece for air, his quote was shortened and as a result his opinions mischaracterized. We are fixing the piece online to include his full quote and context. We apologize and regret the error.”848
ABC News was sued for $1.9 billion dollars by a South Dakota meat processing company for a series of reports calling their ground beef product ‘pink slime.’849 The company alleged that their revenue dropped 80% after the reports aired, causing word of the ‘pink slime’ to go viral online. ABC later settled the lawsuit for a reported $177 million dollars, which is close to an entire year’s profit for the network.850